In case anyone isn't sure whether the eyes are too complex for the brain to learn, remember that they did experiments with putting inverting glasses on people, so they saw everything upside down.
I think it took about half a week for people's brains to respond 'correctly' to a given situation (e.g. not bumping into things).
When the goggles were removed, the test subjects saw things upside down. The brain had adjusted sufficiently to seeing upside down that reverting to the standard way up confused it.
There was a comment from one of the users that he did occasionally still get confused, which implies that the wiring in these photodetectors may occasionally confuse the user slightly as the brain tries to remember which signal protocol it's using, but the main point is the speed of learning seen in the experiment.
We've also been seeing Apple becoming more mainstream, increasing their market share (ipods are an Apple Big Thing (ironic!) but aren't particularly targetable by spyware, viruses etc because there's not really anything particular to spy, so we'll ignore them for the moment) - looking at the market share in desktop and laptop computers, surely we shold be drawing the same conclusions as in the main article?
Apple and Microsoft do similar things in terms of releasing security updates as and when needed; they rely on the user to actually click the button and download. So why are PCs the main haven for spyware, viruses, and so on, while Apples are traditionally free of these issues? Granted, a hacker will have more of a target and presumably an increased chance of success if the PC media are chosen; but the Apples are still there - is it the difficulty of being written for? Hahaha.
I'm not sure of the comparative usage figures for Firefox and for Apple, but Apple's been round a heck of a lot longer - yes, they switched over to a unix base, but a lot of the function and method of use was preserved.
Where's the Apple attack? Did it happen and no-one noticed? Is Apple being efficient enough that it's just that much harder to do? Does anyone believe that Apple's market share is still too small to bother with?
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In case anyone isn't sure whether the eyes are too complex for the brain to learn, remember that they did experiments with putting inverting glasses on people, so they saw everything upside down.
I think it took about half a week for people's brains to respond 'correctly' to a given situation (e.g. not bumping into things).
When the goggles were removed, the test subjects saw things upside down. The brain had adjusted sufficiently to seeing upside down that reverting to the standard way up confused it.
There was a comment from one of the users that he did occasionally still get confused, which implies that the wiring in these photodetectors may occasionally confuse the user slightly as the brain tries to remember which signal protocol it's using, but the main point is the speed of learning seen in the experiment.
We've also been seeing Apple becoming more mainstream, increasing their market share (ipods are an Apple Big Thing (ironic!) but aren't particularly targetable by spyware, viruses etc because there's not really anything particular to spy, so we'll ignore them for the moment) - looking at the market share in desktop and laptop computers, surely we shold be drawing the same conclusions as in the main article? Apple and Microsoft do similar things in terms of releasing security updates as and when needed; they rely on the user to actually click the button and download. So why are PCs the main haven for spyware, viruses, and so on, while Apples are traditionally free of these issues? Granted, a hacker will have more of a target and presumably an increased chance of success if the PC media are chosen; but the Apples are still there - is it the difficulty of being written for? Hahaha. I'm not sure of the comparative usage figures for Firefox and for Apple, but Apple's been round a heck of a lot longer - yes, they switched over to a unix base, but a lot of the function and method of use was preserved. Where's the Apple attack? Did it happen and no-one noticed? Is Apple being efficient enough that it's just that much harder to do? Does anyone believe that Apple's market share is still too small to bother with?