Irrespective of the present issue, please know that the fraction of funding derived from state sources is 11%. [1]
The fraction of government funding has ramped down over the years, and as of now is 89% private, 11% public. It is notable that there is debate within UC whether or not the remaining 11% is worth the associated restrictions.
Yep, I have at least 5 Samsung printers around town and routinely recommend them to others. The Samsung devices were reliable and reasonably priced. Like others, I will never buy another HP printer, even if initially the new HP offerings are merely re-branded Samsung devices.
It certainly seems HP has fully consumed any good will that informed consumers were willing to extend as they cashed out on their brand. I am very disappointed that they are taking out my favorite printer supplier in their ensuing death spiral.
"Other than that, everything is fine. Companies are forced to spend billions on this regulation, the costs of which they immediately pass on to consumers, all based on fantasy and a badly-written law. Gee, I'm sure glad we never tried this with healthcare!"
The focus is redirected sharply from technological discussion to political diatribe near the end of the submission. I'm a chemical engineer with longtime experience in the fuel industry. As such I fully agree with your statement that nerdiness is not constrained to computers. However, I believe the right-wing rhetoric is distraction from technical discussion, as evidenced by the large fraction of non-technical replies to the post which instead address the politics as raised.
I think your assertion that I should filter the story is an absolute red herring-- the objections raised are not based on the technical detail but instead on the political editorialization.
News for nerds? Not so much.
If I was looking for political commentary in news headlines I would look elsewhere.
With stories like this, when looking for technology news it seems I should look elsewhere as well.
In the audio recording and processing industries it is very common to introduce synthetic higher frequencies. It is a longstanding result that such addition can improve vocal clarity. It is also commonly sed as a guitar effect. A good description of some of the processing techniques is found here:
https://www.soundonsound.com/s...
Thanks for posting this. I have considered the consumer solutions, and held off due the the ratio of $ investment to being tied to a quickly-changing and marketing-driven product that may have sketchy reliability. For instance, I know one person with ~$10k of Z-wave who has so many problems with it (drop outs, interference, major mesh problems requiring a complete re-programming of the system if a switch gets moved to a different location) that they are looking for bids to replace it with a better option. I'd rather use wired vs. wireless anyway, this is exactly what I have been looking for-- a professional level product that is much cheaper than all the 'new school' controllers getting hype right now.
For reference I happen have a C1+, a beaglebone black, and a NI USB DAQ on this desk, so I certainly have some experience in controllers, automation, and system dev. But if I throw a few kilobucks at automating my home, I don't want to spend a bunch of unpaid time trying to keep it working. For example I had to reboot my C1+ 3 times yesterday just to keep my audio flowing over the network. Just imagine if your whole house was flaky like that... Thanks for the link.
I just loaded the Adblock Browser for iOS and don't see any settings to delete history or to not keep history, either in the browser or in iOS' settings menu. As such, this seems to be a step backward. Am I missing something?
Common advice from IP counsel is to never mention allowed, but not issued patents. The typical logic is that time still exists to challenge the issuance before publication. This is common advice we receive routinely, so I am surprised the featured company would draw so much attention to themselves before having stable footing. Perhaps the featured company is not receiving solid counsel? As such, I believe it may be worthwhile to seek out the clerk responsible for this patent for discussion before issuance, if anybody has time to pursue it.
Thanks for mentioning the T42 replacement battery issue with Lenovo. Given that I order all the laptops in our company, which happen to be IBM/Lenovo T-series machines, I took great interest in this. After reading your text I confirmed the Lenovo website indicates the batteries are 'not available'. In response, I just got off the phone with Lenovo technical support because I wanted to know the story.
As it turns out, he said the batteries are available and will continue to be available. He said the current backlog is several months for shipment due to all of the recent recall problems, and that I was better off ordering the batteries somewhere else.
In effort to try to ensure he was correct, I said I would like to order one anyway, even if it is a >2 month wait. He took my order and emailed a confirmation already.
Given these findings, it seems the batteries will continue to be available. Thanks a lot for calling this to our attention.
I suspect you may be referring to magnetite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetite/
in which case ferromagnetism is by an iron-containing molecule. In the present case the operative molecule is a radical which is not necessarily related to iron. Further, the magnetic response which occurs in the FTA results from the photon-based activation of cryptochromes in the retina, implying an eye-coupled and thus almost 'seeing' type response to magnetic fields. I would speculate the effect slightly changes the dynamics of the cryptochromic response such that magnetic orientation slightly changes the appearance (e.g. perhaps sensititivity to colors) of objects from the perspective of the bird. It's fun to think about.
I recall ~10 years ago at the exploratorium in San Fransisco an interesting exhibit whereby magnetic-sensitive bacteria were confined under a microscope which also held a movable magnet. When viewed through the eyepiece, the bacteria were observed to follow the magnetic field (all collect at one of the poles of the imposed field). When the magnet was moved by the observer, all the bacteria would move accordingly over an approx. 1 minute response time. This is an example of biological sensing by magnetite. Many species are also reported to contain a region of high-concentration magnetite and some scientists speculate this may be a sort of 'magnetic field sensor'.
As far as I know, the mechanism of magnetic sensing the TFA is only newly discovered.
This is interesting in the sense that these are very low frequency (~0Hz) fields which transfer much less power to the molecule which interacts with it than say visible light which operates at a much higher frequency and is comprised of a coupled electric and magnetic field. Of course the latter has been known to be sensed by sighted animals for quite some time. One way to view this is as an extension of the mechanism of vision- a photon causes a fast (actually one of the fastest reactions known) trans->cis conformational shift in retinol which drives a voltage down the optic nerve... the mechanism described in the FTA is the next step: once a radical is formed, it responds in a magnetic field. Apparently this response is also sensed. Interesting finding!
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Irrespective of the present issue, please know that the fraction of funding derived from state sources is 11%. [1]
The fraction of government funding has ramped down over the years, and as of now is 89% private, 11% public. It is notable that there is debate within UC whether or not the remaining 11% is worth the associated restrictions.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, I have at least 5 Samsung printers around town and routinely recommend them to others. The Samsung devices were reliable and reasonably priced. Like others, I will never buy another HP printer, even if initially the new HP offerings are merely re-branded Samsung devices. It certainly seems HP has fully consumed any good will that informed consumers were willing to extend as they cashed out on their brand. I am very disappointed that they are taking out my favorite printer supplier in their ensuing death spiral.
"Other than that, everything is fine. Companies are forced to spend billions on this regulation, the costs of which they immediately pass on to consumers, all based on fantasy and a badly-written law. Gee, I'm sure glad we never tried this with healthcare!"
The focus is redirected sharply from technological discussion to political diatribe near the end of the submission. I'm a chemical engineer with longtime experience in the fuel industry. As such I fully agree with your statement that nerdiness is not constrained to computers. However, I believe the right-wing rhetoric is distraction from technical discussion, as evidenced by the large fraction of non-technical replies to the post which instead address the politics as raised. I think your assertion that I should filter the story is an absolute red herring-- the objections raised are not based on the technical detail but instead on the political editorialization.
News for nerds? Not so much. If I was looking for political commentary in news headlines I would look elsewhere. With stories like this, when looking for technology news it seems I should look elsewhere as well.
In the audio recording and processing industries it is very common to introduce synthetic higher frequencies. It is a longstanding result that such addition can improve vocal clarity. It is also commonly sed as a guitar effect. A good description of some of the processing techniques is found here: https://www.soundonsound.com/s...
Thanks for posting this. I have considered the consumer solutions, and held off due the the ratio of $ investment to being tied to a quickly-changing and marketing-driven product that may have sketchy reliability. For instance, I know one person with ~$10k of Z-wave who has so many problems with it (drop outs, interference, major mesh problems requiring a complete re-programming of the system if a switch gets moved to a different location) that they are looking for bids to replace it with a better option. I'd rather use wired vs. wireless anyway, this is exactly what I have been looking for-- a professional level product that is much cheaper than all the 'new school' controllers getting hype right now. For reference I happen have a C1+, a beaglebone black, and a NI USB DAQ on this desk, so I certainly have some experience in controllers, automation, and system dev. But if I throw a few kilobucks at automating my home, I don't want to spend a bunch of unpaid time trying to keep it working. For example I had to reboot my C1+ 3 times yesterday just to keep my audio flowing over the network. Just imagine if your whole house was flaky like that... Thanks for the link.
I just loaded the Adblock Browser for iOS and don't see any settings to delete history or to not keep history, either in the browser or in iOS' settings menu. As such, this seems to be a step backward. Am I missing something?
Common advice from IP counsel is to never mention allowed, but not issued patents. The typical logic is that time still exists to challenge the issuance before publication. This is common advice we receive routinely, so I am surprised the featured company would draw so much attention to themselves before having stable footing. Perhaps the featured company is not receiving solid counsel? As such, I believe it may be worthwhile to seek out the clerk responsible for this patent for discussion before issuance, if anybody has time to pursue it.
Thanks for mentioning the T42 replacement battery issue with Lenovo. Given that I order all the laptops in our company, which happen to be IBM/Lenovo T-series machines, I took great interest in this. After reading your text I confirmed the Lenovo website indicates the batteries are 'not available'. In response, I just got off the phone with Lenovo technical support because I wanted to know the story.
As it turns out, he said the batteries are available and will continue to be available. He said the current backlog is several months for shipment due to all of the recent recall problems, and that I was better off ordering the batteries somewhere else.
In effort to try to ensure he was correct, I said I would like to order one anyway, even if it is a >2 month wait. He took my order and emailed a confirmation already.
Given these findings, it seems the batteries will continue to be available. Thanks a lot for calling this to our attention.
I suspect you may be referring to magnetite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetite/
in which case ferromagnetism is by an iron-containing molecule. In the present case the operative molecule is a radical which is not necessarily related to iron. Further, the magnetic response which occurs in the FTA results from the photon-based activation of cryptochromes in the retina, implying an eye-coupled and thus almost 'seeing' type response to magnetic fields. I would speculate the effect slightly changes the dynamics of the cryptochromic response such that magnetic orientation slightly changes the appearance (e.g. perhaps sensititivity to colors) of objects from the perspective of the bird. It's fun to think about.
I recall ~10 years ago at the exploratorium in San Fransisco an interesting exhibit whereby magnetic-sensitive bacteria were confined under a microscope which also held a movable magnet. When viewed through the eyepiece, the bacteria were observed to follow the magnetic field (all collect at one of the poles of the imposed field). When the magnet was moved by the observer, all the bacteria would move accordingly over an approx. 1 minute response time. This is an example of biological sensing by magnetite. Many species are also reported to contain a region of high-concentration magnetite and some scientists speculate this may be a sort of 'magnetic field sensor'.
As far as I know, the mechanism of magnetic sensing the TFA is only newly discovered.
This is interesting in the sense that these are very low frequency (~0Hz) fields which transfer much less power to the molecule which interacts with it than say visible light which operates at a much higher frequency and is comprised of a coupled electric and magnetic field. Of course the latter has been known to be sensed by sighted animals for quite some time. One way to view this is as an extension of the mechanism of vision- a photon causes a fast (actually one of the fastest reactions known) trans->cis conformational shift in retinol which drives a voltage down the optic nerve... the mechanism described in the FTA is the next step: once a radical is formed, it responds in a magnetic field. Apparently this response is also sensed. Interesting finding!