There are tons of apps that turn the iPhone into a wireless mobile drive. I have one that I got for free that uses webdav to make the iPhone a wireless drive that can play/read/display almost any content my laptop can (audio, doc, spreadsheets, pdfs, etc.) I keep all my syllabi and digital readings on it.
No. Hair cells are involved. Eventually loud noises cause damage to those cells.
Article claims tinnitus can result. That is correct. Tinnitus is, in a way, hearing loss. You do lose some ability to hear at the frequency your tinnitus is at. In reality tinnitus is far, far worse than just losing some hearing at a given frequency range.
You do not want tinnitus. Believe me. You do not want tinnitus.
Those damaged hair cells are still sending signals at the frequency the damage occurred at. Your brain continues to process those signals. End result? Endless ringing of the ears.
The ringing in your ears does not fucking stop. Ever.
I'm sitting in a library listening to my iPod and your comment made me turn it the hell down. Mission accomplished?
Although it's worth noting that there are some very well thought out features such as vibration to confirm button presses and screen interactions, different sounds when you loop menus, etc. With some set-up help, this might not be a bad way to go.
I also used the phone for a long time, and it would work for some basic features but I have some concerns. It's linux based, but the OS has some quirks and often has a lot of exploration through menus to get to things like bluetooth, ringtones, etc. The talking phone mode is very cool, but so much of the texting features rely on the exterior touch screen, which wouldn't be very useful to a blind person.
Plus with the RAZR2 you're paying a couple hundred dollar premium for two big high-rez screens that the blind obviously won't use.
I started reading Star Wars in first grade and didn't turn back until high school. It's not the densest or most thought-provoking stuff on the planet, but it's fun, clean, and usually interesting.
I had no love for words before then. Since then, I read literally every star wars book ever published until the Yuuzhan Vong nonsense. That's what made me start writing and eventually become an English student, publish my own book of poetry, and (via a ridiculously circuitious route), go to law school.
I was a terrible english student. I read about a hundred star wars novels. Then I got a 780 on the SAT verbal as a sophomore.
I'm no genius, and there isn't a 1:1 connection there obviously, but anything that will but a large volume of words and constructions will give your kid a grasp of the language that he'll never lose.
Anything Timothy Zahn is a great recommendation. When I was a kid I also loved the Kevin J. Anderson Jedi Academy series, the Rogue Squadron books, and the Corellian Trilogy.
Hunt around my post a little bit and let me know when you find where I implied his statement contained a sample size.
Bingo, I didn't. What I said is that his statement implies that what he is talking about is a sample. The statement "75 out of every 100 women" does not imply that, say, there are 4 billion women in the world and three billion were counted. It implies that a sample, hypothesized to be generalizable to a larger population, was found to have 3/4 of its members meet x criteria.
Any statistic that ever appears in communication research is based on a sample. Any percentage is derived from a sample. It's not exactly a leap to say that if someone present an anecdote with a percentage, they are merely doing what scientists do and extrapolating to larger populations from a relatively small sample.
He clearly wrote '75% of women'. If he had said '75% of women I met' it would have been a clearly legitimate statistic. You assume that he "meant" the women he met, yet I have to say, you just don't know, do you? "100% of women" is ALL women. "100% of women I have met" is a different story. If you're going to criticize, at least have a general idea of what a described sample size is.
% = percent = per centus = per/out of 100
This Is Just To Say: '75% of women' literally means 75 out of 100 women. Which is itself a sample. It is intrinsic to his statement that what he is talking about is a sample that is meant (or supposed) to be representative.
You're SUPPOSED TO have 50+ hours of behind the wheel time. A VFR pilot is REQUIRED to take an oral and written examination, the checkride, renew every two years, keep immaculate records, and oh yeah -- those 40 hours are grueling by comparison.
Is flying impossibly difficult to learn? No. But I've been driving cars (on private roads) since I was nine years old, motorcycles since I was 11. An airplane, especially for a "casual" flyer, is exponentially more complex to own, operate, and maintain, and the sky is a much more complicated place to be than the road if you're ANYWHERE near a big airport (I live under the SEA-TAC umbrella myself...)
Universities refuse to accept work citing it because it's trivial for the student to modify wikipedia to match their paper. Universities are refusing to accept it as a cited source because any student so half-assed as to cite an encyclopedia [TERTIARY SOURCE] on an academic paper of any kind deserves the scorn he's going to get. It's on small step above citing Urbandictionary as a source for a comm. research review...
There is a lot of mechanical redundancy built into these systems. Even in a GA plane you don't need electricity for crucial systems. I've flown under a total electric failure at night (Generator went belly-up). I had enough battery to run the radio and lights when I came in to land, but the point is a plane should not "fall like a rock" even with no electricity. As has been previously mentioned, most systems are hydraulic or mechanically redundant (pitot tubes for instruments, etc).
I've worked in a recount. I'd much rather have the corrupt count be at least efficiently generated, instead of through the sweat of misinformed, underinstructed, and ultimately ignored temp workers.
The 2004 Washington gubenatorial debacle is just one of a million examples of the seemingly obvious truth that if the first vote was too close to call, recounting it is merely reshuffling the same deck of dubious cards. Just because you counted again doesn't mean the same statistical errors and intrinsic problems in vote counting aren't there.
I have a two-year-old phone that I got for a lot less than the iPhone. It doesn't have Multi-Touch, but it's got a nice screen and PIM functionality, and interfaces with iTunes. It's the V3i, I bought it on eBay for about $150.
And you know what? It sucks. iTunes on a phone is even worse than iTunes on an iPod.
Uh. In the city, you can't afford to park a Chevy for a decade without serious cause. In the city, you can't get away with lighting your shit on fire because (gasp) there are people everywhere and the air's rank enough already. In the city, you don't have barns.
Not defending the "red-staters love trees more" argument, but your rebuttal is piss-poor.
Let's face it -- there are wastrels, self-deluding neo-hippies, and genuine environmentalists on both sides of the party line. Hell, my grandfather's the most hardcore gun-totin' Republican you'll ever find and he spends his spare time building wildlife shelters, volunteering to mow public airfields, and donating funds and time to build recycling centers for small communities. My neighbor is a pinko commie liberal, but owns a Hummer and speedboat.
Have we all learned a valuable lesson about false dichotomies?
It's a good thing there aren't any dangerous natural formations or circumstances outside of human intervention. It would be a shame to see a hybrid squidtopus not live forever. I hate how human beings have the audacity to interfere with the natural cycle of underwater creatuares eating each other by providing other avenues for them to die occasionally.
I just got HL2 to play under Wine, and playing it through now for the fifth or sixth time (the rest under windows) I have to say I disagree with everything you say.
Most of the time I've played it through on maximum settings, and now since it's in Wine i'm under DX8.1 and the gameplay's worth putting up with the cruder graphics. My experience is that people who knock HL2's plot or accuse it of being repetitive are often the people who lack the willingness to actually investigate the world. HL2 is riddled with easter eggs and artistic touches that do more for immersion and creating a sensible alternate world than just about any other FPS I've ever played.
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That's a surprisingly intuitive observation. Huttah to you.
There are tons of apps that turn the iPhone into a wireless mobile drive. I have one that I got for free that uses webdav to make the iPhone a wireless drive that can play/read/display almost any content my laptop can (audio, doc, spreadsheets, pdfs, etc.) I keep all my syllabi and digital readings on it.
I wonder if some dopamine systems are involved
No. Hair cells are involved. Eventually loud noises cause damage to those cells.
Article claims tinnitus can result. That is correct. Tinnitus is, in a way, hearing loss. You do lose some ability to hear at the frequency your tinnitus is at. In reality tinnitus is far, far worse than just losing some hearing at a given frequency range.
You do not want tinnitus. Believe me. You do not want tinnitus.
Those damaged hair cells are still sending signals at the frequency the damage occurred at. Your brain continues to process those signals. End result? Endless ringing of the ears .
The ringing in your ears does not fucking stop. Ever.
I'm sitting in a library listening to my iPod and your comment made me turn it the hell down. Mission accomplished?
Although it's worth noting that there are some very well thought out features such as vibration to confirm button presses and screen interactions, different sounds when you loop menus, etc. With some set-up help, this might not be a bad way to go.
I also used the phone for a long time, and it would work for some basic features but I have some concerns. It's linux based, but the OS has some quirks and often has a lot of exploration through menus to get to things like bluetooth, ringtones, etc. The talking phone mode is very cool, but so much of the texting features rely on the exterior touch screen, which wouldn't be very useful to a blind person. Plus with the RAZR2 you're paying a couple hundred dollar premium for two big high-rez screens that the blind obviously won't use.
I started reading Star Wars in first grade and didn't turn back until high school. It's not the densest or most thought-provoking stuff on the planet, but it's fun, clean, and usually interesting. I had no love for words before then. Since then, I read literally every star wars book ever published until the Yuuzhan Vong nonsense. That's what made me start writing and eventually become an English student, publish my own book of poetry, and (via a ridiculously circuitious route), go to law school. I was a terrible english student. I read about a hundred star wars novels. Then I got a 780 on the SAT verbal as a sophomore. I'm no genius, and there isn't a 1:1 connection there obviously, but anything that will but a large volume of words and constructions will give your kid a grasp of the language that he'll never lose. Anything Timothy Zahn is a great recommendation. When I was a kid I also loved the Kevin J. Anderson Jedi Academy series, the Rogue Squadron books, and the Corellian Trilogy.
That's funny. I don't even have a Facebook profile. It's a rather lame thing to have. I prefer to do my 'social networking' in the real world.
... he wrote on Slashdot.
A NASA budget? That's pretty much their favorite hobby. See Space Shuttle.
Hunt around my post a little bit and let me know when you find where I implied his statement contained a sample size.
Bingo, I didn't. What I said is that his statement implies that what he is talking about is a sample. The statement "75 out of every 100 women" does not imply that, say, there are 4 billion women in the world and three billion were counted. It implies that a sample, hypothesized to be generalizable to a larger population, was found to have 3/4 of its members meet x criteria.
Any statistic that ever appears in communication research is based on a sample. Any percentage is derived from a sample. It's not exactly a leap to say that if someone present an anecdote with a percentage, they are merely doing what scientists do and extrapolating to larger populations from a relatively small sample.
This Is Just To Say: '75% of women' literally means 75 out of 100 women. Which is itself a sample. It is intrinsic to his statement that what he is talking about is a sample that is meant (or supposed) to be representative.
It's not the cars, it's the traffic and conditions. I've had my Corolla up to 110 and my friend's old Camaro over 130-140...
You're SUPPOSED TO have 50+ hours of behind the wheel time. A VFR pilot is REQUIRED to take an oral and written examination, the checkride, renew every two years, keep immaculate records, and oh yeah -- those 40 hours are grueling by comparison.
Is flying impossibly difficult to learn? No. But I've been driving cars (on private roads) since I was nine years old, motorcycles since I was 11. An airplane, especially for a "casual" flyer, is exponentially more complex to own, operate, and maintain, and the sky is a much more complicated place to be than the road if you're ANYWHERE near a big airport (I live under the SEA-TAC umbrella myself...)
True... then again, every instructor I've ever flown with has considered a red flashlight and batteries to be an essential part of an emergency kit.
There is a lot of mechanical redundancy built into these systems. Even in a GA plane you don't need electricity for crucial systems. I've flown under a total electric failure at night (Generator went belly-up). I had enough battery to run the radio and lights when I came in to land, but the point is a plane should not "fall like a rock" even with no electricity. As has been previously mentioned, most systems are hydraulic or mechanically redundant (pitot tubes for instruments, etc).
Ah, I have made a fool of myself. In that case, my apologies :P
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(Apothecary is one of my favorite words, so I'll change my moral indignation to pleasant surprise to see it used on slashdot
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I've worked in a recount. I'd much rather have the corrupt count be at least efficiently generated, instead of through the sweat of misinformed, underinstructed, and ultimately ignored temp workers. The 2004 Washington gubenatorial debacle is just one of a million examples of the seemingly obvious truth that if the first vote was too close to call, recounting it is merely reshuffling the same deck of dubious cards. Just because you counted again doesn't mean the same statistical errors and intrinsic problems in vote counting aren't there.
The fact that you just referred to an audio file as an "iTune" made me throw up a little in my mouth.
I have a two-year-old phone that I got for a lot less than the iPhone. It doesn't have Multi-Touch, but it's got a nice screen and PIM functionality, and interfaces with iTunes. It's the V3i, I bought it on eBay for about $150. And you know what? It sucks. iTunes on a phone is even worse than iTunes on an iPod.
Uh. In the city, you can't afford to park a Chevy for a decade without serious cause. In the city, you can't get away with lighting your shit on fire because (gasp) there are people everywhere and the air's rank enough already. In the city, you don't have barns.
Not defending the "red-staters love trees more" argument, but your rebuttal is piss-poor.
Let's face it -- there are wastrels, self-deluding neo-hippies, and genuine environmentalists on both sides of the party line. Hell, my grandfather's the most hardcore gun-totin' Republican you'll ever find and he spends his spare time building wildlife shelters, volunteering to mow public airfields, and donating funds and time to build recycling centers for small communities. My neighbor is a pinko commie liberal, but owns a Hummer and speedboat.
Have we all learned a valuable lesson about false dichotomies?
See? American English is actually just essentially lossless compression...
It's a good thing there aren't any dangerous natural formations or circumstances outside of human intervention. It would be a shame to see a hybrid squidtopus not live forever. I hate how human beings have the audacity to interfere with the natural cycle of underwater creatuares eating each other by providing other avenues for them to die occasionally.
I just got HL2 to play under Wine, and playing it through now for the fifth or sixth time (the rest under windows) I have to say I disagree with everything you say. Most of the time I've played it through on maximum settings, and now since it's in Wine i'm under DX8.1 and the gameplay's worth putting up with the cruder graphics. My experience is that people who knock HL2's plot or accuse it of being repetitive are often the people who lack the willingness to actually investigate the world. HL2 is riddled with easter eggs and artistic touches that do more for immersion and creating a sensible alternate world than just about any other FPS I've ever played.
It's entirely possible that this comment is the single funniest thing I've ever read on slashdot.