That's not the point of this whole exercise. The parking meters and the parked cars do not conform to Apple's "vision" of their store, so they want them gone.
They don't want any cars out front, whether or not it belongs to their customers.
If the city officials allow Apple to do this, then they must allow other companies to do this as well. So, imagine if a significant number of companies pay for this "privilege", and the number of street-parking slots is reduced by 50% (or whatever fraction you deem to be significant), can you see the problem this would cause?
as an Australian, I am totally ashamed that you are also an Australian.
you talk about ANZUS, our top politicians (Howard and Downer) don't even have a clear idea of what our obligations are towards that treaty. But then, that was probably just Downer being Downer.
I believe when the GP said "bullying allies" he didn't mean bullying every single person in the allied country. You being a single case doesn't count, and you being safely in some backwater country town probably precludes you from facing that anyway.
Did you see the news where Australia spent some $240 million on this little conference in Sydney, and Bush wasn't even sure what country he was in and which conference he was attending? That's how much he cares about his best international ally.
If you have ever spent just a little time outside of Australia, you will know that Howard has pretty much used up all of the goodwill non-US foreigners used to have towards Australians. Now, Australians are treated as if we are second-class US citizens.
"You don't put 1.8" drives in notebooks, you put them in iPods. 2.5" drives go into notebooks."
Thanks, I'd be sure to pass that onto Toshiba (R200, R400), Sony (TZ series), HP (nc2400, nc2510) and Dell (D420/430) and tell them that they really should listen to some AC on Slashdot.
"some sort of crazy ultraportable"
and that also means they weight 2 lb instead of 5 lb. The last three of my laptops have all been ultraportables, and all together they still weight less than 15" notebooks out there.
1. Samsung had announced their 120 Gb 4200 rpm 1.8" drive a couple of weeks earlier (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/i ndex.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070820005213 &newsLang=en), but there's no sign of it available yet.
2. The Toshiba 120 Gb drive, according to PC Watch Impress (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2007/0906/tosh iba.htm) is 3600 rpm with CE-ATA interface, not really suitable for notebooks, even ultra-portable ones.
I'd guess the new iPod Classic uses the Toshiba drive, since it supposedly uses even less power compared to their previous 1.8" drives. But if this is the case, it means I can't just rip it out of the iPod to plug into my laptop, since the interface doesn't appear to be compatible with their previous 1.8" drives.
However, I still hope that at least one of these make it to the retail market. It would be nice to be able to double my current 80 Gb drive.
The argument is that chemical inertness does not mean a substance is not capable of causing cancer. And asbestos is one of the prime example of this. It is highly chemically resistant, it can be used in a variety of applications and was thought to be some miracle substance, with the added bonus that it causes cancer.
So the inertness of glass does not rule it out from causing cancer.
[PURE SPECULATION] It is possible that the reason cancer happens in a certain fraction of the test subjects is due to the fact that there is a foreign and non-reactive material inside their body, and the system simply doesn't know what to do with it, and sends some wrong signals which started producing these cancer cells.
In fact, you can say that cancer cells are "biologically inert", i.e. they don't do anything except multiply and don't die out after a number division cycles like normal cells. So it seems like your brain may possibly be inert. [/END SPECULATION]
I'd have sworn that the Youtube videos ran as fast on Firefox as they do on Opera, and I haven't really noticed myself reading slashdot articles faster on Opera than Firefox.
I guess I am just getting too old for these newfangled Web 2.0 stuff.
thank you for pointing that out, and yes I am perfectly aware that it was around Bach's time that "well-tempered" scales came in the wide-usage and that early virginal/harpsichords/cimbalo have split keys for the black keys.
However, I'd advise you to just read the paper and you will see what their point is. It's quite straight-forward, and despite publication in a high-profile journal, it's quite easy to read.
G# and A#/B-flat are frequently wrong, and tend to be wrong in the same direction. They haven't proven orchestra-tuning is the case, it's just their hypothesis that the blurring around A is likely due to that factor.
I said absolute/perfect pitch is an innate ability and that acquired AP skills is only temporary.
The finding of the article is that people with AP are having their senses of G#-A-A# blurred due to the way orchestras tune to a wide range of "A" sound.
I am not sure whether you really understood much here.
First, the "article" is not "weak on details". It's the abstract, if you want details, read the full article (link on the right-hand side, "Full Text (PDF)".
Second, "absolute pitch" or "perfect pitch" is sort of a innate ability. You can either have it or you don't, as the article shows that pitch accuracy is best in younger people. But there's different levels of the ability. If I hear a relatively clean note, I can pretty much identify what the pitch to within a semitone. However, I have problem just singing/humming a specific note as correctly without help. but I know a few people that can sing any note accurately without help and they can tell you whether your instrument is out of tune simply by their innate ability, without having to check with another instrument or tuning fork or some other gadget.
I've heard stories that it is possible to train to have the "perfect pitch" temporarily. Someone I know sang in the Stravinsky Mass, and they practiced so much that for a few months he was able to sing a B note correctly without assistance. But this is not permanent, they lose this if they stop "training" for it.
Now, what the article is reporting is that, people with perfect pitch, are starting to have this ability blurred due to the way orchestras inaccurately tune to a wide range of A. I assume this means they would have had exposure to such "tuning sessions" at the beginning of concerts and so on.
So this sort of the reverse of what you have written. AP is not trained, not acquired from accumulated experience, but it can be degraded gradually if you keep blurring their idea of what A should be.
The interesting part is, as per the abstract, they systematically get notes around A wrong, and more frequently than other notes:
"given as a pure tone, G# is as perceived sharp far more than any other tone, whereas errors in D occur infrequently" "Interestingly, pure A# is most often perceived as flat, not in keeping with the other pitches," "A statistical analysis shows that G# is uniquely error-prone."
1. likely won't work for all proteins. It seems this just allows the crystals to grow BIGGER (which is a very good thing) but doesn't actually make the process easier. Protein crystals are a bastard to grow, depending on a lot of things like solvent conditions, temperature, even vibrations and so on. They only used lysosome as a test, which had been done a long time ago, as a protein, it's easy to produce and purify. You can even order it by the grams cheaply from Sigma, it's sort of the biological equivalent of buying sugar and salt from the supermarket. Would be more interesting if they tackled something more difficult, like a big complex or something.
2. Prions won't crytallise (easily...). They are fibrous. I think the closest type of things people have managed was fibrinogen, and they had to chop up that protein into its core region before it can be done (and it was a major finding when it was published). Prions in its "bad" form aggregates fast and is resistant to a lot of tricks to break it down. Furthermore, even prion in its "good" form seem to lack defined structure, so even the good form isn't going to crystallise that well.
Exactly. Not to mention the still total absence of major non-free (as in beer) Adobe products (e.g. Acrobat, Photoshop-related) for Linux. They were quite happy being the "monopoly" in their areas, and as far as I know, they only really opened up the PDF spec after MS announced Metro as a direct competitor to Adobe.
They should stop complaining about MS monopoly when they are one of the major contributing factors towards preventing people moving away from MS products. Even Mac users are treated as second class citizens behind Windows users these days.
Plus, if they want to compete, more on better technology and less on publicity. Calling MS a "monopolist" isn't going to make it go away.
military grade GPS have higher precision, although it seems unlikely that this is the reason they are bulkier, probably just the usual shock-resistant packaging for military use I guess.
article forgets to mention it runs on an Intel CPU.
the HTC Advantage 7501 is designed to fill the void between underpowered PDAs and expensive UMPCs. It should be available sometime towards the end of the summer at around $900.
How does the $900 mark "fill the void" between PDAs and UMPC? and it's just a (very) expensive PDA with a bigger screen. I don't see what features it has that set it apart from other high-end PDAs except for that screen.
at least the tidbits regarding the cool/quiet running of the Phenom processors seemed encouraging, I really hope AMD can at least close the gap between Intel and themselves.
and some guy also tried it years ago with just commercial scanners (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/), although the results weren't that great, but at least it's a proof of the concept.
while the calamari jokes are inevitable, I thought I'd point out anyway that apparently giant squids don't taste all that nice due to the high amount of ammonia they have to help buoyancy, and the only creatures that find them tasty (as well as being big enough to eat them) are sperm whales.
There's several more reports and better pictures than the one posted in the summary.
their 50 person company has an annual revenue of $10 million.
revenue isn't profit. Sure they are generating quite a bit of revenue for the relatively small staff, but there's no indication of what their operational cost is. Considering they do stuff like mailing out free CDs to anyone that requests it and likely many other nice gestures for the community, their operational cost is probably also high.
Having said that, I do sincerely hope they are and can remain in the black.
I really hope that AMD can pull themselves out of the current slump.
Their technology have always been competitive with Intel, regardless of whether they are holding the performance crown of the moment, and thus they provide the only true competition to Intel in the mainstream PC market. Unlike Via or the defunct Transmeta and others, which only managed to compete in some niche markets.
we'll see who's laughing when they're "next gen" chip underperforms (in many benchmarks, I'm betting)
Should AMD go down, even Intel fanboys are going to feel the pain when Intel starts ignoring the cheap segments and prices CPU whatever way they feel like. In a way, it'd be a worse monopoly than Microsoft, since it's much easier to create software from scratch than it is to create hardware from scratch. If the unthinkable happens, we can only hope that IBM (or maybe Sun) becomes interested in making x86 chips enough to provide an alternative, or provide cheap Power processors for desktops...
Personally, I don't care who's got the highest performing CPU, as long as I can get cheap CPUs that will do the job adequately.
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Jobs-on-a-stick! Apple believers out on a crusade to Jobsify city planning!
Let's just raze the cities and build massive Apple stores instead. When you have Apple, you need nothing else.
At least read the summary.
That's not the point of this whole exercise. The parking meters and the parked cars do not conform to Apple's "vision" of their store, so they want them gone.
They don't want any cars out front, whether or not it belongs to their customers.
If the city officials allow Apple to do this, then they must allow other companies to do this as well. So, imagine if a significant number of companies pay for this "privilege", and the number of street-parking slots is reduced by 50% (or whatever fraction you deem to be significant), can you see the problem this would cause?
Stupid article and stupid writer.
as an Australian, I am totally ashamed that you are also an Australian.
you talk about ANZUS, our top politicians (Howard and Downer) don't even have a clear idea of what our obligations are towards that treaty. But then, that was probably just Downer being Downer.
I believe when the GP said "bullying allies" he didn't mean bullying every single person in the allied country. You being a single case doesn't count, and you being safely in some backwater country town probably precludes you from facing that anyway.
Did you see the news where Australia spent some $240 million on this little conference in Sydney, and Bush wasn't even sure what country he was in and which conference he was attending? That's how much he cares about his best international ally.
If you have ever spent just a little time outside of Australia, you will know that Howard has pretty much used up all of the goodwill non-US foreigners used to have towards Australians. Now, Australians are treated as if we are second-class US citizens.
"You don't put 1.8" drives in notebooks, you put them in iPods. 2.5" drives go into notebooks."
Thanks, I'd be sure to pass that onto Toshiba (R200, R400), Sony (TZ series), HP (nc2400, nc2510) and Dell (D420/430) and tell them that they really should listen to some AC on Slashdot.
"some sort of crazy ultraportable"
and that also means they weight 2 lb instead of 5 lb. The last three of my laptops have all been ultraportables, and all together they still weight less than 15" notebooks out there.
1. Samsung had announced their 120 Gb 4200 rpm 1.8" drive a couple of weeks earlier (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/i ndex.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070820005213 &newsLang=en), but there's no sign of it available yet.
h iba.htm) is 3600 rpm with CE-ATA interface, not really suitable for notebooks, even ultra-portable ones.
2. The Toshiba 120 Gb drive, according to PC Watch Impress (http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2007/0906/tos
I'd guess the new iPod Classic uses the Toshiba drive, since it supposedly uses even less power compared to their previous 1.8" drives. But if this is the case, it means I can't just rip it out of the iPod to plug into my laptop, since the interface doesn't appear to be compatible with their previous 1.8" drives.
However, I still hope that at least one of these make it to the retail market. It would be nice to be able to double my current 80 Gb drive.
The argument is that chemical inertness does not mean a substance is not capable of causing cancer. And asbestos is one of the prime example of this. It is highly chemically resistant, it can be used in a variety of applications and was thought to be some miracle substance, with the added bonus that it causes cancer.
So the inertness of glass does not rule it out from causing cancer.
[PURE SPECULATION]
It is possible that the reason cancer happens in a certain fraction of the test subjects is due to the fact that there is a foreign and non-reactive material inside their body, and the system simply doesn't know what to do with it, and sends some wrong signals which started producing these cancer cells.
In fact, you can say that cancer cells are "biologically inert", i.e. they don't do anything except multiply and don't die out after a number division cycles like normal cells. So it seems like your brain may possibly be inert.
[/END SPECULATION]
Hey, that's MINE mailbox! and I sure ain't some fancy-schmancy CEO!
when was the Slashdot effect so nerfed that it's now considered "quiet"?
one suggestion I would make is bring down the cost of mainstream CPUs to a more affordable price, like $10 or so. That would be nice. Thanks Intel.
I'd have sworn that the Youtube videos ran as fast on Firefox as they do on Opera, and I haven't really noticed myself reading slashdot articles faster on Opera than Firefox.
I guess I am just getting too old for these newfangled Web 2.0 stuff.
thank you for pointing that out, and yes I am perfectly aware that it was around Bach's time that "well-tempered" scales came in the wide-usage and that early virginal/harpsichords/cimbalo have split keys for the black keys.
However, I'd advise you to just read the paper and you will see what their point is. It's quite straight-forward, and despite publication in a high-profile journal, it's quite easy to read.
G# and A#/B-flat are frequently wrong, and tend to be wrong in the same direction. They haven't proven orchestra-tuning is the case, it's just their hypothesis that the blurring around A is likely due to that factor.
I am not sure what you disagree with.
I said absolute/perfect pitch is an innate ability and that acquired AP skills is only temporary.
The finding of the article is that people with AP are having their senses of G#-A-A# blurred due to the way orchestras tune to a wide range of "A" sound.
So, what exactly are you disagreeing with?
I am not sure whether you really understood much here.
First, the "article" is not "weak on details". It's the abstract, if you want details, read the full article (link on the right-hand side, "Full Text (PDF)".
Second, "absolute pitch" or "perfect pitch" is sort of a innate ability. You can either have it or you don't, as the article shows that pitch accuracy is best in younger people. But there's different levels of the ability. If I hear a relatively clean note, I can pretty much identify what the pitch to within a semitone. However, I have problem just singing/humming a specific note as correctly without help. but I know a few people that can sing any note accurately without help and they can tell you whether your instrument is out of tune simply by their innate ability, without having to check with another instrument or tuning fork or some other gadget.
I've heard stories that it is possible to train to have the "perfect pitch" temporarily. Someone I know sang in the Stravinsky Mass, and they practiced so much that for a few months he was able to sing a B note correctly without assistance. But this is not permanent, they lose this if they stop "training" for it.
Now, what the article is reporting is that, people with perfect pitch, are starting to have this ability blurred due to the way orchestras inaccurately tune to a wide range of A. I assume this means they would have had exposure to such "tuning sessions" at the beginning of concerts and so on.
So this sort of the reverse of what you have written. AP is not trained, not acquired from accumulated experience, but it can be degraded gradually if you keep blurring their idea of what A should be.
The interesting part is, as per the abstract, they systematically get notes around A wrong, and more frequently than other notes:
"given as a pure tone, G# is as perceived sharp far more than any other tone, whereas errors in D occur infrequently"
"Interestingly, pure A# is most often perceived as flat, not in keeping with the other pitches,"
"A statistical analysis shows that G# is uniquely error-prone."
RIAA?
1. likely won't work for all proteins. It seems this just allows the crystals to grow BIGGER (which is a very good thing) but doesn't actually make the process easier. Protein crystals are a bastard to grow, depending on a lot of things like solvent conditions, temperature, even vibrations and so on. They only used lysosome as a test, which had been done a long time ago, as a protein, it's easy to produce and purify. You can even order it by the grams cheaply from Sigma, it's sort of the biological equivalent of buying sugar and salt from the supermarket. Would be more interesting if they tackled something more difficult, like a big complex or something.
2. Prions won't crytallise (easily...). They are fibrous. I think the closest type of things people have managed was fibrinogen, and they had to chop up that protein into its core region before it can be done (and it was a major finding when it was published). Prions in its "bad" form aggregates fast and is resistant to a lot of tricks to break it down. Furthermore, even prion in its "good" form seem to lack defined structure, so even the good form isn't going to crystallise that well.
Exactly. Not to mention the still total absence of major non-free (as in beer) Adobe products (e.g. Acrobat, Photoshop-related) for Linux. They were quite happy being the "monopoly" in their areas, and as far as I know, they only really opened up the PDF spec after MS announced Metro as a direct competitor to Adobe.
They should stop complaining about MS monopoly when they are one of the major contributing factors towards preventing people moving away from MS products. Even Mac users are treated as second class citizens behind Windows users these days.
Plus, if they want to compete, more on better technology and less on publicity. Calling MS a "monopolist" isn't going to make it go away.
military grade GPS have higher precision, although it seems unlikely that this is the reason they are bulkier, probably just the usual shock-resistant packaging for military use I guess.
however, civilian GPS signal is apparently less accurate because noise is intentionally added, see graph here: http://www.byte.com/art/9602/img/511022c2.htm
article forgets to mention it runs on an Intel CPU.
the HTC Advantage 7501 is designed to fill the void between underpowered PDAs and expensive UMPCs. It should be available sometime towards the end of the summer at around $900.How does the $900 mark "fill the void" between PDAs and UMPC? and it's just a (very) expensive PDA with a bigger screen. I don't see what features it has that set it apart from other high-end PDAs except for that screen.
at least the tidbits regarding the cool/quiet running of the Phenom processors seemed encouraging, I really hope AMD can at least close the gap between Intel and themselves.
and some guy also tried it years ago with just commercial scanners (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/), although the results weren't that great, but at least it's a proof of the concept.
while the calamari jokes are inevitable, I thought I'd point out anyway that apparently giant squids don't taste all that nice due to the high amount of ammonia they have to help buoyancy, and the only creatures that find them tasty (as well as being big enough to eat them) are sperm whales.
There's several more reports and better pictures than the one posted in the summary.
that's great! let's judge the scientific community of the ENTIRE country based on the actions of a single scientist.
yep, way to go!
revenue isn't profit. Sure they are generating quite a bit of revenue for the relatively small staff, but there's no indication of what their operational cost is. Considering they do stuff like mailing out free CDs to anyone that requests it and likely many other nice gestures for the community, their operational cost is probably also high.
Having said that, I do sincerely hope they are and can remain in the black.
I automatically assumed from the title that it's some conspiracy to do with Microsoft and MPAA. Wrong on both accounts.
"An individual who is not that connected to the internet" probably wouldn't be reading Slashdot anyway.
I really hope that AMD can pull themselves out of the current slump.
Their technology have always been competitive with Intel, regardless of whether they are holding the performance crown of the moment, and thus they provide the only true competition to Intel in the mainstream PC market. Unlike Via or the defunct Transmeta and others, which only managed to compete in some niche markets.
Should AMD go down, even Intel fanboys are going to feel the pain when Intel starts ignoring the cheap segments and prices CPU whatever way they feel like. In a way, it'd be a worse monopoly than Microsoft, since it's much easier to create software from scratch than it is to create hardware from scratch. If the unthinkable happens, we can only hope that IBM (or maybe Sun) becomes interested in making x86 chips enough to provide an alternative, or provide cheap Power processors for desktops...
Personally, I don't care who's got the highest performing CPU, as long as I can get cheap CPUs that will do the job adequately.