Not sure what mystery there is. But a long standing theory, as stated, about sleep and dreams is that it's when the brain organizes the information you gained during the waking hours, throws away the stuff that is meaningless or already gained knowledge from past experiences, and then figures out what new experiences are needed to store for short and long term recall.
Considering that for children EVERYTHING is new to them, taking naps during the day most likely is better so they can tuck away all that new information they are flooded with at shorter intervals which probably lets the infant brain process it more efficiently, rather than just at night. Not sure why the process is only understood to occur in adult brains and considered a mystery for children.
I think often scientists dismiss the obvious to ensure they continue to get funding for a project where they already know the answer to.
I think outside the geekosphere Ubuntu has never had the impact that was assumed it would. While many geeks shunned it because they felt it was an oversimplified consumer version of a purposefully nerdy OS I think they just assumed then that the masses would adopt it because of its simplicity. But overall Linux as a consumer OS has never "inclined" and Ubuntu definitely did not blaze any new trails. I don't know any "non-nerd" that has ever heard of Ubuntu and only a few of my slightly-nerdy friends would even bother to install outside of curiosity's sake.
I think the whole LInux crowd needs to get over the idea of trying to make it on the PC, the PC is a dead platform. I mean while companies like Google and Apple have taken a *nixy product and made it mainstream for tablets and phones, the core Linux community is making the same exact mistake Microsoft is making:
Ignoring current trends and trying to win in a market that is in decline.
So while Ubuntu and whatever trendy Linux flavors at the moment are fighting it out to be the top Linux distribution, Ubuntu, and Linux for the PC, is in decline because the PC market is in decline. Holding on to the belief they can somehow take over from Windows is not a win because nobody is using Windows computers anymore.
Do not get me wrong here. I think Linux is an excellent special purpose OS for a slew of other devices. I am very excited at the possibility of a Valve Steambox driven by Linux (if it's more than just Gabe waffling about the future and actually doing something concrete now), and Linux has allowed an era of "smart" devices to do more then just have a limited amount of basic functionality.
But when it comes to Linux on the PC, I think the whole motivation of the platform has been misguided and myopic in nature.
While Linus Torvalds can proudly claim Linux is a win in the grand scheme of things, all PC distros of Linux have simply failed, period. The quicker Ubuntu and others realize this, the quicker they can start working on the platforms that matter today. Then we can start a new era of predicting the "year of the Linux tablet" and have something new to bitch about on Slashdot.
It let companies realize they could release 15 versions of the same exact thing and consumers will always buy them. Apple, Microsoft, and EA Sports have become prolific at continuing the legacy that was started by Myst.
Sigh... they are not going to render movies using the same GPU's you have in your own gaming rig. They are just going to use the same techniques used by video game production with movies.
William's hasn't written an original piece of music since Star Wars (and even that is up for debate), so you can just auto-insert any of his previous "work" and then append is name to the movie credits.
The only way a story about 3D printing and open source software could be better is if it included a crowdfunding campaign, was DRM free, and made a negative comment about Microsoft!
OMG, Ice is 6th lowest since we decided to give a rat's ass about it. But hey, it was lower 5 more times than now but the green alarmists won't consider that an upward trend.
Recorded history is only 0.00000000625% total of actual history, give or take a few zillionths of a percentage.
And you will see that at one point Microsoft had 41% of the "smartphone" market at the time. Their only major competitor was RIM.
I mean Microsoft defined "smartphone", their phones allowed you to run apps, games and multimedia and was the natural evolution of Windows Pocket PC which was also a major player in the early 2000's.
To say that Microsoft did not invest talent into mobile devices and phones in the early 2000 is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Yes, iPhone was a disruptor in the market, but Ballmer simply turned over and gave up on Windows Mobile products. It was 100% his own incompetence as a CEO to maintain a product that had, at one time, a major segment of the market.
Its like Ballmer is trying to make it sound like he just didn't see the potential for Microsoft to capitalize on phones and was too focused on desktops, and not the bigger reality that Ballmer is just incompetent as a CEO for letting a product that once defined the market at the time slip into irrelevance.
Ballmer the Blamer, this is going to define him as he wraps up his days at Microsoft.
But again if you bother to read the news, apparently the Maine lobster populations have exploded once again and the problem now is that there's a glut of lobster driving down market prices, so the fishermen can't even make a decent profit in spite of all the lobster around there.
The only thing worse the lamenting about the past is ignoring the now.
Who is to say that maybe our God, from a world of God's, is actually the engineer that puts a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area.
Maybe Earth is actually the result of a plan by a committee executed by an overpaid ditch digger?
Once again Gabe has to put up or shut up because he is notorious for telling everyone what they are doing wrong, but then not delivering it himself.
Why is iTunes centralized game store bad but Valve's centralize game store good?
Also it is pretty rich that Gabe is lumping himself into game consoles considering he shit on them 5 years ago as being the wrong way to do gaming. Now Valve is supposedly preparing a game console.
I mean Gabe says this kind of shit all the time somehow believing that Valve is doing something completely different and more righteous than anybody else but calling out their competition for it.
Ultimately what Valve is trying to do is to make Steam the de facto standard for running games on Linux, largely because he has shat on every their content platform and those platforms want nothing to do with Valve. Gabe is just as much trying to create a walled garden on Linux as Apple or Google has done on their respective platforms.
Gabe wants to monopolize Linux gaming, period. That is the only future Valve will survive in.
However first, I don't buy the "I can't see the pixels so its not worth it" argument. I mean when I see a screen with high pixel density vs one that doesn't, it just looks fucking better, period. I may not be able to differentiate individual fucking pixels, but a lot of stuff looks crisper, and more importantly, you can fit more content on the screen because it remains clear and readable even if its smaller. Try to render 8pt text on a VGA display, you are not going to read the bits and blogs of characters struggling to display on low res shitvision. Games are more detailed with the higher resolution than on a screen with less pixel density.
But where I DO agree, especially on the Android platform, NOBODY authors content for these high pixel density displays. I mean I have the Nexus 10 which has higher pixel density then this thing, and yet 90% of the content I use on it is simply authored for less pixel density and scaled up. Games look like crap because they simply double or quadruple the scaling, turning shitty low res graphics into even shittier high resolution garbage.
This is part of the problem with Android as a platform because there is no consistency across all the devices for screen size and pixel density. When Apple comes out with "Retina" for the iPad or iPhone, everybody authors content to look good on the Retina display. When even Google comes out with a high pixel density device, people just author content for some shitty cheap Android phone released 5 years ago.
So while I don't buy the whole theory behind not seeing individual pixels bullshit, for the most part most Android shit is going to still look like shit regardless of how many pixels you throw at it.
Hopefully because this is a tablet inspired by a graphic's card company they might also be rolling out a development platform that allows Android game designers to actually author quality content that takes advantage of high pixel density. But from what I have seen from other nVidia device's released recently, I just don't think they bothered with much more then putting their name on some OEM commissioned product.
Apple just put lipstick on the pig and expect everyone to embrace iOS 7 as some significant leap forward.
While I am sure there are some efficiency improvements in iOS 7 UI and features, overall people should be keenly aware that not much has really changed under the hood. I mean turning on 64bit when compiling iOS 7 is not innovative, neither is a 64bit CPU. Apple is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and making it seem like iOS 7 and iPhone 5s are significant upgrades, when in reality they are barely incremental updates. Apple needs this deception if they want to improve their stock performance.
Basically iOS 7 represents the first divergence of the legacy left by Steve Jobs. Once he left the planet, the internal rifts between skeuomorphism vs UI simplicity shifted weight over to Jony Ives, who simply ripped all the leather, glass, metal and felt out of iOS free from any repercussions because Tim Cook is a spineless half-wit who is barely aware of anything Apple does these days except what he is told to regurgitate in a keynote.
Look, Apple is even aware of all this. They spent exactly 5 minutes talking about iOS 7 at the iPhone release. No real weight to its release. They spent the next 20 minutes talking about the beautiful colors if plastic (again, the ONLY thing new about iPhone 5c), and then raved about how fast and 64 bitty their new CPU is and how they brought their camera into the 21st century by focusing on quality rather than simply "having a camera" on a phone like their competition has already realized. Finally while the iTouch is cool, without support for User Profiles iTouch is just a useless contrivance for people too-stupid to remember a 4 digit passcode. There is no point "knowing" who is using the iDevice when there is no simply no iOS feature that is aware of who is using the device.
So, while everyone is tripping over to glow about all the "new" things Apple released last week, investors are pulling out of Apple because they can see past the lipstick and realize Apple hasn't innovated since Jobs passed away.
I have no respect for a company or organization that dumps Windows and jumps on the "free OS" bandwagon. If they can make it work, good for them, but you just pissed off thousands of your employees in one fell swoop simply because you too fucking cheap to upgrade a 13 year old OS and instead will pay more in the long run for loss of productivity. Imagine going into work one day and finding your IT just reformatted your computer, removed all the familiar apps you are used to using, replaced them with shitty open source alternatives, and shoved a new environment in front of you, all in the name of being fucking cheap.
What's the first thing an typical government worker is going to do in this scenario? Get on the phone and ask IT Support what the fuck just happened and how are they supposed to do their job when everything has changed?!
So go for it, unfortunately the article about the repercussions and actual COST of Munich switching to Linux will never be written so more organizations will be deluded into believing switching to Linux costs less than just upgrading Windows..
Yes but these days nobody trusts science so even if your phone says it locks out data access through the USB and sets your phone to charge only on the USB cable most people still think the High Wizards of NSA have some way of overriding that the instant they detect your phone plugged into a data port.
Remember, the NSA has unlimited resources to force every phone manufacturer and OS vendor to provide back-doors so they can monitor billions of devices in real-time on the off chance a stupid terrorist is transmitting the location of their next attack on Twitter.
I am sure there are situations where someone might need to plug in their phone in a random place for that important call, but I mean, someone leaving their home with a 1/4 charged phone before heading out on a business trip is probably going to forget their condoms too.
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Not sure what mystery there is. But a long standing theory, as stated, about sleep and dreams is that it's when the brain organizes the information you gained during the waking hours, throws away the stuff that is meaningless or already gained knowledge from past experiences, and then figures out what new experiences are needed to store for short and long term recall.
Considering that for children EVERYTHING is new to them, taking naps during the day most likely is better so they can tuck away all that new information they are flooded with at shorter intervals which probably lets the infant brain process it more efficiently, rather than just at night. Not sure why the process is only understood to occur in adult brains and considered a mystery for children.
I think often scientists dismiss the obvious to ensure they continue to get funding for a project where they already know the answer to.
I think outside the geekosphere Ubuntu has never had the impact that was assumed it would. While many geeks shunned it because they felt it was an oversimplified consumer version of a purposefully nerdy OS I think they just assumed then that the masses would adopt it because of its simplicity. But overall Linux as a consumer OS has never "inclined" and Ubuntu definitely did not blaze any new trails. I don't know any "non-nerd" that has ever heard of Ubuntu and only a few of my slightly-nerdy friends would even bother to install outside of curiosity's sake.
I think the whole LInux crowd needs to get over the idea of trying to make it on the PC, the PC is a dead platform. I mean while companies like Google and Apple have taken a *nixy product and made it mainstream for tablets and phones, the core Linux community is making the same exact mistake Microsoft is making:
Ignoring current trends and trying to win in a market that is in decline.
So while Ubuntu and whatever trendy Linux flavors at the moment are fighting it out to be the top Linux distribution, Ubuntu, and Linux for the PC, is in decline because the PC market is in decline. Holding on to the belief they can somehow take over from Windows is not a win because nobody is using Windows computers anymore.
Do not get me wrong here. I think Linux is an excellent special purpose OS for a slew of other devices. I am very excited at the possibility of a Valve Steambox driven by Linux (if it's more than just Gabe waffling about the future and actually doing something concrete now), and Linux has allowed an era of "smart" devices to do more then just have a limited amount of basic functionality.
But when it comes to Linux on the PC, I think the whole motivation of the platform has been misguided and myopic in nature.
While Linus Torvalds can proudly claim Linux is a win in the grand scheme of things, all PC distros of Linux have simply failed, period. The quicker Ubuntu and others realize this, the quicker they can start working on the platforms that matter today. Then we can start a new era of predicting the "year of the Linux tablet" and have something new to bitch about on Slashdot.
It let companies realize they could release 15 versions of the same exact thing and consumers will always buy them. Apple, Microsoft, and EA Sports have become prolific at continuing the legacy that was started by Myst.
Surface ME will be da bomb for sure.
Linux is the future of gaming because Valve created their own version of Linux.
BTW, its not living room ready if I have to set up a big PC shoebox with liquid cooling to play the same content I get on a console.
Still waiting for the actual SteamBox, but apparently I now have to give Valve suggestions on who to design it.
Explain 3 things that 64bit will offer to a mobile phone/tablet user, your comment will have some merit.
Sigh... they are not going to render movies using the same GPU's you have in your own gaming rig. They are just going to use the same techniques used by video game production with movies.
William's hasn't written an original piece of music since Star Wars (and even that is up for debate), so you can just auto-insert any of his previous "work" and then append is name to the movie credits.
The only way a story about 3D printing and open source software could be better is if it included a crowdfunding campaign, was DRM free, and made a negative comment about Microsoft!
OMG, Ice is 6th lowest since we decided to give a rat's ass about it. But hey, it was lower 5 more times than now but the green alarmists won't consider that an upward trend.
Recorded history is only 0.00000000625% total of actual history, give or take a few zillionths of a percentage.
Get over it, HDCP hasn't been an issue for over 10 years. Just like Microsoft's influence on technology. It's time to let go.
DRM is a perceptual problem. The only people affected by DRM are those trying to circumvent it.
This is a cop out statement if I ever heard of one.
Just Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile#Windows_Mobile_2003
And you will see that at one point Microsoft had 41% of the "smartphone" market at the time. Their only major competitor was RIM.
I mean Microsoft defined "smartphone", their phones allowed you to run apps, games and multimedia and was the natural evolution of Windows Pocket PC which was also a major player in the early 2000's.
To say that Microsoft did not invest talent into mobile devices and phones in the early 2000 is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Yes, iPhone was a disruptor in the market, but Ballmer simply turned over and gave up on Windows Mobile products. It was 100% his own incompetence as a CEO to maintain a product that had, at one time, a major segment of the market.
Its like Ballmer is trying to make it sound like he just didn't see the potential for Microsoft to capitalize on phones and was too focused on desktops, and not the bigger reality that Ballmer is just incompetent as a CEO for letting a product that once defined the market at the time slip into irrelevance.
Ballmer the Blamer, this is going to define him as he wraps up his days at Microsoft.
But again if you bother to read the news, apparently the Maine lobster populations have exploded once again and the problem now is that there's a glut of lobster driving down market prices, so the fishermen can't even make a decent profit in spite of all the lobster around there.
The only thing worse the lamenting about the past is ignoring the now.
Who is to say that maybe our God, from a world of God's, is actually the engineer that puts a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area.
Maybe Earth is actually the result of a plan by a committee executed by an overpaid ditch digger?
Global warming is being blamed for thicker and stronger ice in Antarctica, now I really have heard everything.
So every few months we are going to get news about some "planned mission" to send humans to some moon or planet?
"Most people are stupid and like shallow entertainment."
Says the first post troll...
Buy a $20,000 car and then pay $20k/year to have it driven by a chauffeur, its still cheaper than a Tesla.
Once again Gabe has to put up or shut up because he is notorious for telling everyone what they are doing wrong, but then not delivering it himself.
Why is iTunes centralized game store bad but Valve's centralize game store good?
Also it is pretty rich that Gabe is lumping himself into game consoles considering he shit on them 5 years ago as being the wrong way to do gaming. Now Valve is supposedly preparing a game console.
I mean Gabe says this kind of shit all the time somehow believing that Valve is doing something completely different and more righteous than anybody else but calling out their competition for it.
Ultimately what Valve is trying to do is to make Steam the de facto standard for running games on Linux, largely because he has shat on every their content platform and those platforms want nothing to do with Valve. Gabe is just as much trying to create a walled garden on Linux as Apple or Google has done on their respective platforms.
Gabe wants to monopolize Linux gaming, period. That is the only future Valve will survive in.
I have to agree.
However first, I don't buy the "I can't see the pixels so its not worth it" argument. I mean when I see a screen with high pixel density vs one that doesn't, it just looks fucking better, period. I may not be able to differentiate individual fucking pixels, but a lot of stuff looks crisper, and more importantly, you can fit more content on the screen because it remains clear and readable even if its smaller. Try to render 8pt text on a VGA display, you are not going to read the bits and blogs of characters struggling to display on low res shitvision. Games are more detailed with the higher resolution than on a screen with less pixel density.
But where I DO agree, especially on the Android platform, NOBODY authors content for these high pixel density displays. I mean I have the Nexus 10 which has higher pixel density then this thing, and yet 90% of the content I use on it is simply authored for less pixel density and scaled up. Games look like crap because they simply double or quadruple the scaling, turning shitty low res graphics into even shittier high resolution garbage.
This is part of the problem with Android as a platform because there is no consistency across all the devices for screen size and pixel density. When Apple comes out with "Retina" for the iPad or iPhone, everybody authors content to look good on the Retina display. When even Google comes out with a high pixel density device, people just author content for some shitty cheap Android phone released 5 years ago.
So while I don't buy the whole theory behind not seeing individual pixels bullshit, for the most part most Android shit is going to still look like shit regardless of how many pixels you throw at it.
Hopefully because this is a tablet inspired by a graphic's card company they might also be rolling out a development platform that allows Android game designers to actually author quality content that takes advantage of high pixel density. But from what I have seen from other nVidia device's released recently, I just don't think they bothered with much more then putting their name on some OEM commissioned product.
Apple just put lipstick on the pig and expect everyone to embrace iOS 7 as some significant leap forward.
While I am sure there are some efficiency improvements in iOS 7 UI and features, overall people should be keenly aware that not much has really changed under the hood. I mean turning on 64bit when compiling iOS 7 is not innovative, neither is a 64bit CPU. Apple is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and making it seem like iOS 7 and iPhone 5s are significant upgrades, when in reality they are barely incremental updates. Apple needs this deception if they want to improve their stock performance.
Basically iOS 7 represents the first divergence of the legacy left by Steve Jobs. Once he left the planet, the internal rifts between skeuomorphism vs UI simplicity shifted weight over to Jony Ives, who simply ripped all the leather, glass, metal and felt out of iOS free from any repercussions because Tim Cook is a spineless half-wit who is barely aware of anything Apple does these days except what he is told to regurgitate in a keynote.
Look, Apple is even aware of all this. They spent exactly 5 minutes talking about iOS 7 at the iPhone release. No real weight to its release. They spent the next 20 minutes talking about the beautiful colors if plastic (again, the ONLY thing new about iPhone 5c), and then raved about how fast and 64 bitty their new CPU is and how they brought their camera into the 21st century by focusing on quality rather than simply "having a camera" on a phone like their competition has already realized. Finally while the iTouch is cool, without support for User Profiles iTouch is just a useless contrivance for people too-stupid to remember a 4 digit passcode. There is no point "knowing" who is using the iDevice when there is no simply no iOS feature that is aware of who is using the device.
So, while everyone is tripping over to glow about all the "new" things Apple released last week, investors are pulling out of Apple because they can see past the lipstick and realize Apple hasn't innovated since Jobs passed away.
Tesla == Apple
GM == Linux
Toyota == Google
GM could create a viable and even superior platform to Tesla, but nobody is going to buy it until Toyota steals it from GM first.
I have no respect for a company or organization that dumps Windows and jumps on the "free OS" bandwagon. If they can make it work, good for them, but you just pissed off thousands of your employees in one fell swoop simply because you too fucking cheap to upgrade a 13 year old OS and instead will pay more in the long run for loss of productivity. Imagine going into work one day and finding your IT just reformatted your computer, removed all the familiar apps you are used to using, replaced them with shitty open source alternatives, and shoved a new environment in front of you, all in the name of being fucking cheap.
What's the first thing an typical government worker is going to do in this scenario? Get on the phone and ask IT Support what the fuck just happened and how are they supposed to do their job when everything has changed?!
So go for it, unfortunately the article about the repercussions and actual COST of Munich switching to Linux will never be written so more organizations will be deluded into believing switching to Linux costs less than just upgrading Windows..
Yes but these days nobody trusts science so even if your phone says it locks out data access through the USB and sets your phone to charge only on the USB cable most people still think the High Wizards of NSA have some way of overriding that the instant they detect your phone plugged into a data port.
Remember, the NSA has unlimited resources to force every phone manufacturer and OS vendor to provide back-doors so they can monitor billions of devices in real-time on the off chance a stupid terrorist is transmitting the location of their next attack on Twitter.
I am sure there are situations where someone might need to plug in their phone in a random place for that important call, but I mean, someone leaving their home with a 1/4 charged phone before heading out on a business trip is probably going to forget their condoms too.
No glove, no love, period.