I imagine at Stanford you'd be welcomed with open arms, and not second guessed.
I hope things have continued to improve on the Farm since my time there, but racism is alive at Stanford just like anywhere else. The difference as I saw it was that students of different race were more likely to discuss the issue openly and to confront their own bias. I did so several times at college, but I still notice myself making assumptions about people based on race all the time.
6.) Finally, from quickly scanning the Debian mailing lists, it seems as if most of the Debian developers have no respect for FreeBSD. One called it "dying software" and others claimed it offered no advantages over Linux. While everyone is entitled to an opinion, however ill-informed and erroneous, I wonder how dedicated Debian could be to an operating system it does not like and does not respect; after all, part of the allure of working on open source software is being able to code for your own pleasure rather than someone else's.
Interesting observation. The Debian developer community is so diverse that one will always find such comments from individuals with strong feelings. However, when you use a single comment like this to discount the whole community, you lose the most important piece of perspective. The Debian community with it's arguments and diversity is a shining example of the bazaar development model at work. The Debian distribution is stronger because out of the arguments come better ideas and design.
I suspect that the article is talking about very high level cognitive processes. But it's clear that heck of a lot of parallel preprocessing has to happen upfront! Before you can shift your attention from one object to another, you have to recognize that object regardless of how it is oriented, what the lighting conditions are, what the background is and so on. They aren't saying that this is all serial.
According to my understanding of the subject, this is not true. High speed photography has demonstrated that vision occurs as discrete (serial) episodes called saccades. The choice of focal point is not based on higher level processing in the visual cortex, but rather is controlled by the Superior Colliculus (sp?) which is not part of the cortex. In fact, from what I've been told by researchers in the area of neurobiology, a human subject's eyes will repeatably focus on the same points in an image when presented at different times. Typically, edges and corners might be favored. Each such episode takes on the order of 50 or 100 msec, and input from a field of view about the focus point is fed into the visual cortex. Apparently, it is at the higher levels of processing that we turn these discrete, serial, images into a smooth, fuzzy view of the world about us.
It's a hot topic in neurobiology and really quite neat to learn about.
Cheers. Sapphire.
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I've been wondering for a while if the customization options for QT/KDE or GNOME/Gtk will allow me to place my scroll bars on the left side of all windows by default. That control alone would be worth having independent of 3d pixmaps and such. Anyone know if this property is themable?
In the end, I believe that democracy will prevent this nation (and other democracies in The Americas, Europe, and Asia) from becoming a totalitarian/Orewllian state. The political landscape changes constantly, according to the will of the people. Democracy works, and will continue to do so.
A choice between only two alternatives: Democrat and Republican. This is not a democracy when both are owned by those who pay for the elections. The US is an Oligarchy. It used to be controlled by rich noblemen, then it was controlled by the robber barrons of the 1890's, now it is owned by the Fortune 10000 companies.
If Motorolla would build an inexpensive G3/G4 motherboard, then we could all afford to run their resonably priced chips. Someone needs to seed the market. BeOS, Linux, and BSD would run on a simple MB with a PCI bus, SDRAM, etc. A simple, $100 single-processor board would be enough to establish the market--it should fit in a standard AT or ATX case and take advantage of all the inexpensive hardware which is available. Motorolla should seed its own market, or does Apple have their proverbial balls in a vice?
Other useful programs for the college classroom presently include MatLab, IDL, Maple, Mathematica, etc. All of these have student versions at a reduced price. Personally, I let our MatLab license lapse when the GPL'ed program Octave proved able to do everything I needed.
There is R, an OSS (I think) version of the S statistics language. Check out SAL (Scientific Applications for Linux) to find many more. The available software including OSS, freeware, and commercial applications is useful across all fields that would require the use of a computer.
Anyone know if I can use Linux to load MP3's on one of these players? That's what I'd like to see--a MP3 player that supports loading via standard protocols (TCP-IP over a serial connection would work well).
Don't Trinitrons have a shadow image of a wire going across the screen because of the way they're built? Others may be able to ignore such a "feature", but it would drive me up a creek!
You are correct. This is also true for the Mitsubishi appeture(sp?) grill which I prefer to the Trinitron (perhaps because Sony is switching to cheaper electronics in many models?). However, you should check it out. The mind quickly learns to ignore those two horizontal lines. It will probably take a day until you would have to actually look for them to see them. At least that's been my experience.
BTW, I love my Cybervision 0.25AG monitor. It's a 17" running at 1024x768 at 100Hz refresh using a 8M Matrox Millenium AGP under X.
Soon, there will be another way to spend those extra CPU cycles: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is designing a distributed client to search through astronomical data for signs of something that seems somewhat lacking here on Earth (at least in the USA).
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You are wrong about the latter point. apt-get will not automatically install a lower versioned package. You would have to mandate the downgrade.
I hope things have continued to improve on the Farm since my time there, but racism is alive at Stanford just like anywhere else. The difference as I saw it was that students of different race were more likely to discuss the issue openly and to confront their own bias. I did so several times at college, but I still notice myself making assumptions about people based on race all the time.
Interesting observation. The Debian developer community is so diverse that one will always find such comments from individuals with strong feelings. However, when you use a single comment like this to discount the whole community, you lose the most important piece of perspective. The Debian community with it's arguments and diversity is a shining example of the bazaar development model at work. The Debian distribution is stronger because out of the arguments come better ideas and design.
Cheers.
According to my understanding of the subject, this is not true. High speed photography has demonstrated that vision occurs as discrete (serial) episodes called saccades. The choice of focal point is not based on higher level processing in the visual cortex, but rather is controlled by the Superior Colliculus (sp?) which is not part of the cortex. In fact, from what I've been told by researchers in the area of neurobiology, a human subject's eyes will repeatably focus on the same points in an image when presented at different times. Typically, edges and corners might be favored. Each such episode takes on the order of 50 or 100 msec, and input from a field of view about the focus point is fed into the visual cortex. Apparently, it is at the higher levels of processing that we turn these discrete, serial, images into a smooth, fuzzy view of the world about us.
It's a hot topic in neurobiology and really quite neat to learn about.
Cheers. Sapphire.
I've been wondering for a while if the customization options for QT/KDE or GNOME/Gtk will allow me to place my scroll bars on the left side of all windows by default. That control alone would be worth having independent of 3d pixmaps and such. Anyone know if this property is themable?
A choice between only two alternatives: Democrat and Republican. This is not a democracy when both are owned by those who pay for the elections. The US is an Oligarchy. It used to be controlled by rich noblemen, then it was controlled by the robber barrons of the 1890's, now it is owned by the Fortune 10000 companies.
If Motorolla would build an inexpensive G3/G4 motherboard, then we could all afford to run their resonably priced chips. Someone needs to seed the market. BeOS, Linux, and BSD would run on a simple MB with a PCI bus, SDRAM, etc. A simple, $100 single-processor board would be enough to establish the market--it should fit in a standard AT or ATX case and take advantage of all the inexpensive hardware which is available. Motorolla should seed its own market, or does Apple have their proverbial balls in a vice?
There is R, an OSS (I think) version of the S statistics language. Check out SAL (Scientific Applications for Linux) to find many more. The available software including OSS, freeware, and commercial applications is useful across all fields that would require the use of a computer.
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Ah yes. Canada. That's that bit of natural resources were keeping in reserve to the North. Thanks for keeping it in order though.
Anyone know if I can use Linux to load MP3's on one of these players? That's what I'd like to see--a MP3 player that supports loading via standard protocols (TCP-IP over a serial connection would work well).
Don't Trinitrons have a shadow image of a wire going across the screen because of the way they're built? Others may be able to ignore such a "feature", but it would drive me up a creek!
You are correct. This is also true for the Mitsubishi appeture(sp?) grill which I prefer to the Trinitron (perhaps because Sony is switching to cheaper electronics in many models?). However, you should check it out. The mind quickly learns to ignore those two horizontal lines. It will probably take a day until you would have to actually look for them to see them. At least that's been my experience.
BTW, I love my Cybervision 0.25AG monitor. It's a 17" running at 1024x768 at 100Hz refresh using a 8M Matrox Millenium AGP under X.
Cheers!
Soon, there will be another way to spend those extra CPU cycles: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is designing a distributed client to search through astronomical data for signs of something that seems somewhat lacking here on Earth (at least in the USA).