Well that's ridiculous. You're second guessing evolution and almost everyone's natural instinct to talk 'baby talk'. Do you really think you know better?
I pretty much agree. But also what is the point? Another scientist conducting years of research only to state the obvious. And as though the research itself gives validity to our behaviour. I'd rather rely on 4 billion years of evolution and a few decades personal experience.
A slightly misleading article. Apple may well be talking about 24-bit audio, but 24-bits is hardly necessary for a large improvement in the perceived quality of audio. This real issue is with lossy codecs (like mp3) versus lossless codecs (like flac). Flac is far superior, and even the average person should be able to tell the difference with some practice - to the average musician its chalk and cheese let alone to an audiophile. I would be surprised if many people could differentiate 16-bit from 24-bit except via the increased dynamic range (number of discrete volume levels). And frankly this dynamic range is inappropriate for listening to most music, with the possible exception of classical and jazz that could use the extra headroom. The reason why you have to constantly adjust the volume of your DVD when watching at home? Too much dynamic range. Do you want that for you music as well? (not aware of any musical genres requiring explosions, gunshots etc at this time)
So, no, no-one will be able to tell the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit, but almost everyone should be able to appreciate the diifference between a lossy and a lossless codec. Flac, 24-bit or not will be a good thing.
For the record, most audio that is digitally recorded in 24-bit/96KHz or higher anyway. It is only 'dithered' down to 16-bit/44.1KHzas a last step in preparation for CD. For various technical reasons this results in a higher quality 16-bit recording than if it was tracked in 16-bit.
Been using one of these for 4 years. This is really the only decent attempt at an ergonomic keyboard that I know of, and actually had some R&D to back it up.
The main drawback is that it's not cordless. I have found it a particular problem moving between this and a non-ergonomic keyboard when necessary, although there's always a minute of two of typos until the new mental map kicks in.
This guy was NOT an Australian parliament member, he was a state politician. There's a big difference. It's like saying Arnold Schwarzenegger is a member of Congress.
At a 100 pages its going to be a while before I can say I have RTFA, but I'll get back with any relevance in a few days after I have digested it. I suggest any post claiming other wise are a bit hasty.
Aren't the best theories supposed to be elegantly simple? This looks a mess. Wait.. that's just how my head feels after reading the abstract.
"It's as if a driver had to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh without a map, navigating solely by traffic signs he encountered along the way — but the signs weren't put up by a central authority. If a sign pointed in the wrong direction, that driver would get lost."
Such a bad analogy on so many levels. The driver (the traffic) is never really aware of the route they are taking. Ignoring this for a second, a slightly better analogy would be that the driver gets a updated map of the route at each city along the way. And these maps are almost always the same.
An even better analogy is the usual post office one - but that's not as useful for trying to spread panic in the interwebs
..and rubbish. I manage over 90 firewalls as a fraction of my full-time duties and it's a cakewalk. Why? I'm competent with unix (and a bunch of scripting languages). GUI's are for the command-line challenged..
I can do a couple of weeks of 80 hours each no problem. After that I'll need a couple of days off. But I just can't do this if I am not looking after my physical well-being. That means eating well and gym workouts every second day.
As other people have said you also need be interested in the project and be in 'the zone' a lot of the time. That requires minimal distractions.
As an aside, others have mentioned you can't write QUALITY code working long hours. Well, not exactly true. Provided you realise when you're rushing a solution and are willing to put it aside until the next morning, you will find your unconscious mind can come up with some elegant solutions while you sleep. Not kidding, try it. And this just in, science agrees.. http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do I Avoid?
The part where I get yelled at by a developer for filing a bug that I tried diagnose to the best of my ability but didn't mange to fix myself.
Because, as we know, you shouldn't even USE open source software unless you're willing to DEVELOP it as well. Pffft.
You are misunderstanding the problem.
The PC running this feature becomes a router bridging their local and probably unauthenticated network with whatever secure network they are already connected to. Add network connection sharing to the mix and you have a security hole regardless of how 'locked down' the original network is.
How big a problem this is will depend on the implementation and I haven't seen it.
Didn't we already go through this with Ad Hoc networks on the original version of Win XP? The 'Free Public Wifi' SSID is still around today thanks to this poorly conceived 'convenience' and it was a nightmare for anyone trying to manage a secure wireless network.
I think time will show this feature not being worth the trouble it causes.
Great for reading in bed, and one of the few iphone apps where you can turn off the damn auto-rotation.
Doesn't support every format but a few, I just convert on my desktop first.
Really quite a good interface for reading as well. Easy to de/increase font size with the ol' pinch manoeuvre
100 years ago we were promised an age of new enlightenment while washing machines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners and other then-cutting edge devices took over all the manual labor that dominated work at that time. Women were supposed to be able to ignore housework and concentrate on childrearing and other higher social activities.
Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for their own insatiable greed. Men and women now work side by side in gigantic cube farms while children rot in day care or roam the streets with little to no guidance from the more experienced members of society.
Why bother with a high-maintainance OS system for a router?? Just buy a refurbed Cisco from a reseller. You won't get support from Cisco but you can buy the router and a spare second-hand for 5% of the original cost.
As everyone known "in use" is a dubious term.
The only subnets that I've ever seen fully occupied were/30's. Even my university has 2 class B's, where we could live with half of one - if we tried. Naturally this space is jealously guarded.
Meanwhile, in India, entire campuses are being NAT'd to/28's
Inefficient allocation are of course totally necessary when dealing with the prospects of future growth and variably-used DHCP pools, but I would be willing to wager at least 50% of the IPv4 space could be recovered if there was a serious effort at rationalisation - and that's ignoring the ridiculous situation of class A's.
Which all counts for absolutely zero if the kid isn't motivated to learn it.
Find me a 12yo that gives a crapola about anything on your list and I'll show you my butt. Yes, my butt.
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Well that's ridiculous. You're second guessing evolution and almost everyone's natural instinct to talk 'baby talk'. Do you really think you know better?
I pretty much agree. But also what is the point? Another scientist conducting years of research only to state the obvious. And as though the research itself gives validity to our behaviour. I'd rather rely on 4 billion years of evolution and a few decades personal experience.
A slightly misleading article. Apple may well be talking about 24-bit audio, but 24-bits is hardly necessary for a large improvement in the perceived quality of audio. This real issue is with lossy codecs (like mp3) versus lossless codecs (like flac). Flac is far superior, and even the average person should be able to tell the difference with some practice - to the average musician its chalk and cheese let alone to an audiophile. I would be surprised if many people could differentiate 16-bit from 24-bit except via the increased dynamic range (number of discrete volume levels). And frankly this dynamic range is inappropriate for listening to most music, with the possible exception of classical and jazz that could use the extra headroom. The reason why you have to constantly adjust the volume of your DVD when watching at home? Too much dynamic range. Do you want that for you music as well? (not aware of any musical genres requiring explosions, gunshots etc at this time)
So, no, no-one will be able to tell the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit, but almost everyone should be able to appreciate the diifference between a lossy and a lossless codec. Flac, 24-bit or not will be a good thing.
For the record, most audio that is digitally recorded in 24-bit/96KHz or higher anyway. It is only 'dithered' down to 16-bit/44.1KHzas a last step in preparation for CD. For various technical reasons this results in a higher quality 16-bit recording than if it was tracked in 16-bit.
Not being a US citizen all I know about N*ggers is that only N*ggers can say N*ggers.
Seconded
Been using one of these for 4 years. This is really the only decent attempt at an ergonomic keyboard that I know of, and actually had some R&D to back it up. The main drawback is that it's not cordless. I have found it a particular problem moving between this and a non-ergonomic keyboard when necessary, although there's always a minute of two of typos until the new mental map kicks in.
This guy was NOT an Australian parliament member, he was a state politician. There's a big difference. It's like saying Arnold Schwarzenegger is a member of Congress.
Well ok, but doesn't this depend on whether you consider a theory Not Particularly Complete without a proof?
Bazinga.
At a 100 pages its going to be a while before I can say I have RTFA, but I'll get back with any relevance in a few days after I have digested it. I suggest any post claiming other wise are a bit hasty.
Aren't the best theories supposed to be elegantly simple? This looks a mess.
Wait.. that's just how my head feels after reading the abstract.
..we can all relate to
I'm just floored.. A whole 'nother planet, hundreds of miles away in deep space, and they have HOLES too!!!
Hey Earthlings, I've just arrived from a distant planet, and happened across this thread. Wow your planet is lame! Mxaskgplt
"It's as if a driver had to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh without a map, navigating solely by traffic signs he encountered along the way — but the signs weren't put up by a central authority. If a sign pointed in the wrong direction, that driver would get lost."
Such a bad analogy on so many levels. The driver (the traffic) is never really aware of the route they are taking. Ignoring this for a second, a slightly better analogy would be that the driver gets a updated map of the route at each city along the way. And these maps are almost always the same.
An even better analogy is the usual post office one - but that's not as useful for trying to spread panic in the interwebs
..and rubbish. I manage over 90 firewalls as a fraction of my full-time duties and it's a cakewalk. Why? I'm competent with unix (and a bunch of scripting languages). GUI's are for the command-line challenged..
I can do a couple of weeks of 80 hours each no problem. After that I'll need a couple of days off. But I just can't do this if I am not looking after my physical well-being. That means eating well and gym workouts every second day. As other people have said you also need be interested in the project and be in 'the zone' a lot of the time. That requires minimal distractions. As an aside, others have mentioned you can't write QUALITY code working long hours. Well, not exactly true. Provided you realise when you're rushing a solution and are willing to put it aside until the next morning, you will find your unconscious mind can come up with some elegant solutions while you sleep. Not kidding, try it. And this just in, science agrees.. http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain
Sounds like someone let the visual basic programmers out of the asylum again...
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do I Avoid? The part where I get yelled at by a developer for filing a bug that I tried diagnose to the best of my ability but didn't mange to fix myself. Because, as we know, you shouldn't even USE open source software unless you're willing to DEVELOP it as well. Pffft.
You are misunderstanding the problem. The PC running this feature becomes a router bridging their local and probably unauthenticated network with whatever secure network they are already connected to. Add network connection sharing to the mix and you have a security hole regardless of how 'locked down' the original network is. How big a problem this is will depend on the implementation and I haven't seen it.
Didn't we already go through this with Ad Hoc networks on the original version of Win XP? The 'Free Public Wifi' SSID is still around today thanks to this poorly conceived 'convenience' and it was a nightmare for anyone trying to manage a secure wireless network. I think time will show this feature not being worth the trouble it causes.
Great for reading in bed, and one of the few iphone apps where you can turn off the damn auto-rotation. Doesn't support every format but a few, I just convert on my desktop first. Really quite a good interface for reading as well. Easy to de/increase font size with the ol' pinch manoeuvre
I'm skeptical about the benefits of AI.
100 years ago we were promised an age of new enlightenment while washing machines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners and other then-cutting edge devices took over all the manual labor that dominated work at that time. Women were supposed to be able to ignore housework and concentrate on childrearing and other higher social activities.
Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for their own insatiable greed. Men and women now work side by side in gigantic cube farms while children rot in day care or roam the streets with little to no guidance from the more experienced members of society.
Nothing moves us backwards faster than progress.
+1
Why bother with a high-maintainance OS system for a router?? Just buy a refurbed Cisco from a reseller. You won't get support from Cisco but you can buy the router and a spare second-hand for 5% of the original cost.
As everyone known "in use" is a dubious term. The only subnets that I've ever seen fully occupied were /30's. Even my university has 2 class B's, where we could live with half of one - if we tried. Naturally this space is jealously guarded.
Meanwhile, in India, entire campuses are being NAT'd to /28's
Inefficient allocation are of course totally necessary when dealing with the prospects of future growth and variably-used DHCP pools, but I would be willing to wager at least 50% of the IPv4 space could be recovered if there was a serious effort at rationalisation - and that's ignoring the ridiculous situation of class A's.
Which all counts for absolutely zero if the kid isn't motivated to learn it. Find me a 12yo that gives a crapola about anything on your list and I'll show you my butt. Yes, my butt.
..this sounds just like a man trying to be 5 IQ points smarter than he is! Wait, can't be, that would be too ironic
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