I'm talking genetics too. It is a bit more complex than the simplification PBS treats it with. Genetically there is around a 1-3% difference between current humans in the world. There are no stark lines when comparing genomes. Scientifically race doesn't stand. Please see Dr. Craig Venter's research on the human genome in this regard. The differences between race are crazy small, and things you might attribute to one race (for example in America the sickle cell attribute is associated with people of African descent) are actually non-existent (people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Indian descent have developed the sickle cell trait - it correlates to malaria distribution better than population groups). Evolutionary scientists have pretty much rejected race, and even social scientists have switched to self-identified ethnicity. If you are trying to group people into races, the clade I described were the last accepted groupings, but fell out of favor with science in the 1970's. Even in the 1960's Livingston concluded that there were no races, but instead only clines. Even with the clade view there are huge problems, which also exist in the model you propose, such as the European/Caucasian grouping being as large of a swath as it is due to social reasons rather than science.
Umm.. no. African includes Nigerian, Bantu, and Bushman. Caucasian includes Italian, English, Iranian, Indian and Lapp. Oceanian includes Australian Aborigine and New Guinean. East Asian includes Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Polynesian, and Micronesian. Native American includes Eskimo, Brazil Indian, and Alaska Indian. Now current theory under this breakdown is that Native Americans split from East Asians, but to say they are of the same would be the same as saying Caucasians are Africans. This is viewing races as a clade. There are interpretations of race besides viewing us as subspecies of a general ancestor, including that race is nothing more than a social construct.
I think you are definitely recalling incorrectly. The way you describe race is controversial, but if you are going to buy into it you have at least Africans, Caucasians, Oceanian, East Asian, and Native American.
What kind of bank do you use? My credit union provides Visa debit cards with their checking accounts and there are no fees attached. In the 8 years I've been with them the only fees I've had is using non Co-op ATMs (no free from my credit union, just the ATM owner/network). If you don't have the cash in your account than your card is declined, as simple as that.
How you interact with data. There was a great lecture at MIT on on this that is on iTunes. With the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch you have to remember you are interacting with the data directly, there is none of the abstraction that a mouse induces. I think this is best displayed in the iPad photo app, the way you can glide through albums or use a spread gesture to peak inside of stacks.
Can you please link to a cheaper one? One with a similar size screen? I would really like one, but there seem to be an extreme lack of links or product names in this thread. And according to the Ars article I read a week or so ago no potential competitors were interested in aiming at below $500.
Obviously it must be extremely hard to do on a computer - every bar, shop, and lumberyard I got to uses computer systems and I can't put anything on my tab at any of them. There are some bars that will let me keep a tab, but they make me give them a credit card before they start it and make me close it before I leave.
So because GQ and Gilette aren't good at aiming ads to their demographic you are punishing Ars for it? The reason you probably can't get ads for the stuff you're interested in is because you use ad blockers, smart companies marketing geeky stuff know their audience is very likely to have ad blockers so they don't put their advertising money there.
I understand this argument, but in the case of phones it is a different beast entirely because the input devices are completely different. In PCs you assume everyone has a pointing device and a keyboard, but with phones they may have a touch screen, or lack a touch screen. There might be an accelerometer, or it might not be there. You may be able to have a physical keyboard, but a lot of Android phones don't. Even with touch screens they don't all respond to input the same way. Can you imagine making a PC program when a quarter of your users have mice that give completely different input than the rest of your user base?
I don't know, a lot of those companies haven't been doing well lately, and have you looked at the amount of cash Apple has? They have a stupendously large amount of cash and highly liquid assets.
I grew up in a rural area and it wasn't much different. We still drove about 20 minutes to the supermarket to stock our pantry. Add to that things like snow plowing cost a hell of a lot more per person to clear the road our house was on, the issue of garbage removal (we had a burning permit since none of the disposal services went out to our house), and about a million other things I can think of that I have no doubt what so ever that my current apartment life is much more efficient even with my increase in electricity use.
Yes, unfortunately. Where I work there is a plasma burning table that has no network interface. We have fiber-optic to all of our other machines but for that table the only option is a floppy disc. This is a concern as floppy's become more scarce, as once a disk goes out to the warehouse we do not let it back into the office (they get very dirty very quickly and jam up the office floppy drives).
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
In many jurisdictions it is often only required to give advanced notice. I know in my area they only have to give 24 hour notice. Their purpose for entry can be to display the apartment for a potential renter, for city/state inspections, or for maintenance. They don't have to ask, they only have to tell you. Most do ask, but mainly because having a good reputation in a competitive market is valuable.
Touch pressure is not a solution. It creates inconstancy. Moreover on appliances like these I would HATE if touch pressure was an issue. Do you remember how hard it was get people to understand a double click when personal computers started becoming commonplace?
You act like this is something super trivial to solve. Realize on almost anything with a virtual keyboard it often won't come up on flash input. Hell on my desktop almost any flash text boxes don't scroll with my mouse scroll wheel. If they can't currently fix these problems you expect them to handle gesture input, and propose that the gesture input be different than what is already in use? And you want for how I interact with flash to be different than how I interact with maps or html content? This is why I often buy Apple products, they work and they are consistent.
Except there is not a good way to implement what you are talking about. Dragging my finger is already used for scrolling. The thing Apple always nails is consistency. I don't want my device to not scroll because where I started my finger was in a flash area of the screen.
But search is a product, just like the Gillette Fusion I received in the mail or the X-Box under my TV. In all these cases it is a discounted or free product pitched so the parent company can market and sell a second product (in these cases ads, razor blades, and games/movies). TV shows are also products, producers make them and market them to TV networks. TV networks than wrap some metrics/demographics on it and market them to marketing and advertising agencies.
You don't really understand how grant money works, do you? Would you rather have a zero sum game with your fellow researchers, or an oligopoly? Look at the current situation and tell me it doesn't resemble and oligopoly. Profit maximizing conditions? Check. Ability to set price? Check. High entry barriers? Check. Number of researchers few or handful? Check. Long run profits? Check. Perfect knowledge of their own cost and demand? Check. Interdependence? Check. That is pretty much the entire checklist for an oligopoly. While competition within an oligopoly can be fierce no player in the market would try to destroy it (argue against global warming) and any player that would disrupt the market is met by huge entry barriers.
With tide charts, current water level, wavelengths of incoming waves, and amplitude of incoming waves, and a damn powerful computer I think you can do a pretty damn good job. What is the acceptable error tolerance? More importantly, is the required accuracy and results worth the expense of the wave measuring buoys and computer to crunch the numbers?
It might be fun to think that, but I don't think that is really the case. I had an economics professor that worked for Ford (you know, that auto company that didn't take a government bailout) and designed the budget for my alma mater, and over half of the schools in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Just because the ones in the limelight are idiots doesn't mean the entire profession is a lost cause.
Your last sentence is the key there. Kind of like how Duke Nukem Forever is the better in every way than all existing games, assuming it is ever released.
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I'm talking genetics too. It is a bit more complex than the simplification PBS treats it with. Genetically there is around a 1-3% difference between current humans in the world. There are no stark lines when comparing genomes. Scientifically race doesn't stand. Please see Dr. Craig Venter's research on the human genome in this regard. The differences between race are crazy small, and things you might attribute to one race (for example in America the sickle cell attribute is associated with people of African descent) are actually non-existent (people of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Indian descent have developed the sickle cell trait - it correlates to malaria distribution better than population groups). Evolutionary scientists have pretty much rejected race, and even social scientists have switched to self-identified ethnicity. If you are trying to group people into races, the clade I described were the last accepted groupings, but fell out of favor with science in the 1970's. Even in the 1960's Livingston concluded that there were no races, but instead only clines. Even with the clade view there are huge problems, which also exist in the model you propose, such as the European/Caucasian grouping being as large of a swath as it is due to social reasons rather than science.
Umm.. no. African includes Nigerian, Bantu, and Bushman. Caucasian includes Italian, English, Iranian, Indian and Lapp. Oceanian includes Australian Aborigine and New Guinean. East Asian includes Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Polynesian, and Micronesian. Native American includes Eskimo, Brazil Indian, and Alaska Indian. Now current theory under this breakdown is that Native Americans split from East Asians, but to say they are of the same would be the same as saying Caucasians are Africans. This is viewing races as a clade. There are interpretations of race besides viewing us as subspecies of a general ancestor, including that race is nothing more than a social construct.
I think you are definitely recalling incorrectly. The way you describe race is controversial, but if you are going to buy into it you have at least Africans, Caucasians, Oceanian, East Asian, and Native American.
What kind of bank do you use? My credit union provides Visa debit cards with their checking accounts and there are no fees attached. In the 8 years I've been with them the only fees I've had is using non Co-op ATMs (no free from my credit union, just the ATM owner/network). If you don't have the cash in your account than your card is declined, as simple as that.
How you interact with data. There was a great lecture at MIT on on this that is on iTunes. With the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch you have to remember you are interacting with the data directly, there is none of the abstraction that a mouse induces. I think this is best displayed in the iPad photo app, the way you can glide through albums or use a spread gesture to peak inside of stacks.
Can you please link to a cheaper one? One with a similar size screen? I would really like one, but there seem to be an extreme lack of links or product names in this thread. And according to the Ars article I read a week or so ago no potential competitors were interested in aiming at below $500.
Obviously it must be extremely hard to do on a computer - every bar, shop, and lumberyard I got to uses computer systems and I can't put anything on my tab at any of them. There are some bars that will let me keep a tab, but they make me give them a credit card before they start it and make me close it before I leave.
So because GQ and Gilette aren't good at aiming ads to their demographic you are punishing Ars for it? The reason you probably can't get ads for the stuff you're interested in is because you use ad blockers, smart companies marketing geeky stuff know their audience is very likely to have ad blockers so they don't put their advertising money there.
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I understand this argument, but in the case of phones it is a different beast entirely because the input devices are completely different. In PCs you assume everyone has a pointing device and a keyboard, but with phones they may have a touch screen, or lack a touch screen. There might be an accelerometer, or it might not be there. You may be able to have a physical keyboard, but a lot of Android phones don't. Even with touch screens they don't all respond to input the same way. Can you imagine making a PC program when a quarter of your users have mice that give completely different input than the rest of your user base?
I don't know, a lot of those companies haven't been doing well lately, and have you looked at the amount of cash Apple has? They have a stupendously large amount of cash and highly liquid assets.
I grew up in a rural area and it wasn't much different. We still drove about 20 minutes to the supermarket to stock our pantry. Add to that things like snow plowing cost a hell of a lot more per person to clear the road our house was on, the issue of garbage removal (we had a burning permit since none of the disposal services went out to our house), and about a million other things I can think of that I have no doubt what so ever that my current apartment life is much more efficient even with my increase in electricity use.
Yes, unfortunately. Where I work there is a plasma burning table that has no network interface. We have fiber-optic to all of our other machines but for that table the only option is a floppy disc. This is a concern as floppy's become more scarce, as once a disk goes out to the warehouse we do not let it back into the office (they get very dirty very quickly and jam up the office floppy drives).
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
In many jurisdictions it is often only required to give advanced notice. I know in my area they only have to give 24 hour notice. Their purpose for entry can be to display the apartment for a potential renter, for city/state inspections, or for maintenance. They don't have to ask, they only have to tell you. Most do ask, but mainly because having a good reputation in a competitive market is valuable.
Touch pressure is not a solution. It creates inconstancy. Moreover on appliances like these I would HATE if touch pressure was an issue. Do you remember how hard it was get people to understand a double click when personal computers started becoming commonplace?
You act like this is something super trivial to solve. Realize on almost anything with a virtual keyboard it often won't come up on flash input. Hell on my desktop almost any flash text boxes don't scroll with my mouse scroll wheel. If they can't currently fix these problems you expect them to handle gesture input, and propose that the gesture input be different than what is already in use? And you want for how I interact with flash to be different than how I interact with maps or html content? This is why I often buy Apple products, they work and they are consistent.
Please never design a user interface. It's solutions like this that make people hate computers/gadgets.
Except there is not a good way to implement what you are talking about. Dragging my finger is already used for scrolling. The thing Apple always nails is consistency. I don't want my device to not scroll because where I started my finger was in a flash area of the screen.
But search is a product, just like the Gillette Fusion I received in the mail or the X-Box under my TV. In all these cases it is a discounted or free product pitched so the parent company can market and sell a second product (in these cases ads, razor blades, and games/movies). TV shows are also products, producers make them and market them to TV networks. TV networks than wrap some metrics/demographics on it and market them to marketing and advertising agencies.
In case you didn't know you can move that bar to the side, set it to hide, and change the size.
You don't really understand how grant money works, do you? Would you rather have a zero sum game with your fellow researchers, or an oligopoly? Look at the current situation and tell me it doesn't resemble and oligopoly. Profit maximizing conditions? Check. Ability to set price? Check. High entry barriers? Check. Number of researchers few or handful? Check. Long run profits? Check. Perfect knowledge of their own cost and demand? Check. Interdependence? Check. That is pretty much the entire checklist for an oligopoly. While competition within an oligopoly can be fierce no player in the market would try to destroy it (argue against global warming) and any player that would disrupt the market is met by huge entry barriers.
With tide charts, current water level, wavelengths of incoming waves, and amplitude of incoming waves, and a damn powerful computer I think you can do a pretty damn good job. What is the acceptable error tolerance? More importantly, is the required accuracy and results worth the expense of the wave measuring buoys and computer to crunch the numbers?
It might be fun to think that, but I don't think that is really the case. I had an economics professor that worked for Ford (you know, that auto company that didn't take a government bailout) and designed the budget for my alma mater, and over half of the schools in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Just because the ones in the limelight are idiots doesn't mean the entire profession is a lost cause.
Your last sentence is the key there. Kind of like how Duke Nukem Forever is the better in every way than all existing games, assuming it is ever released.