On a simulated mission, you're just guinea pigs. Staying motivated must very difficult.
I certainly agree to some extent. If you check out the links this goes beyond simple will-power and excitement. It is more biological. This isn't the first time this has been talked about either and even Sci-fi writers though about this issue for long trips in our era (Earth room in Danny Boyles 'Sunshine' comes to mind).
Mood lighting in over-seas flights help with sleeping on modern aircraft too, regardless of the excitement of passengers arriving in a time-zone much different from the one they left in. This is just a silly example that seems to fit with their findings. Yes, long-haul flights are 7 to 20 hours long but it is the closest most of us come to that kind of scenario.
Lots of, um, words about disjointed stuff that I couldn't tie together. Maybe someone else can be so helpful as to sum it up in a way that makes sense?
Unfortunately there isn't much to the article. It started off like it had a real purpose but it is barely an introduction to Jaron Lanier.
However, what's important to his arguments and a lot of us who feel 'anonymity' is important is this: Anonymity isn't about hiding. It's about being safe to be yourself.
Your BBS example is important because reasonable parties involved resolving an act that isn't called for. Services like Facebook can do whatever they please the data you provide them with, especially since they can make a penny with marketing it. It gets worse when corporate or government interest moves in to collect this data. It isn't that -you- have anything to hide, but you don't have control where that data goes, or even knowledge to whether it is being protected with the civil-liberties you're supposed to have.
The only thing I can think to compare it to is speeding on the highway. You might be the type who goes 110 in a 100 zone. You might be the type to follow the guy in front of you who is going 130 and hope he gets the ticket. Either way, it's your choice and you know that you're not breaking a terrible law. You can do your best to spot a cop, and adjust accordingly. You're still you, your car, your plates...Your choice. Lets say now that your car is speeding down the highway and you're late, so you speed up a bit. But nope, 80$ warning ticket for 10km/h over the limit. On top of that, you're on your way to an interview and you drive a Toyota Tercel, unfortunately the job is a sale position for a company that makes steering wheels for Honda. The staff see that you like to speed, drive a Toyota and dont plan ahead as not to be late.
Okay, I really reached on the analogy. I don't like the idea of companies getting involved with my personal life. Neither do I want the government and it's fluxing ideals to collect every opinion I've had and judge me for it. This is a real possibility today.
Seriously? The keyword is 'planning' and it is early in construction. He didn't say he was leaving this week and is headed to his local boat shop. His problem is one that fits this community: plenty of radio nerds, seamen and a good amount of engineers floating around the comments. I for one am interested in what kind of equipment comes up.
I'm looking at a quick list of vaccinations for from my local clinic that range between 20$ and 120$. 5 millions kids in California seems like a nice chunk of change.
I'm pretty sure that was part of their initial brainstorming of names, but business people respond better to edgy sounding names like 'X', and 'RR' when it comes to products. Scientific fact.
BBQ would have just made them more of a laughing stock,"Hey did you try Black Berry's new OS BBQ? No? Well I hear it's 'well-done!'"
Check out MIT's OCW. Free lectures with a GPL Python programming book that does an excellent job at explaining programming and the Python language. The lectures are bad quality but the projects are good for practice.
I am a little confused. I have a netbook with version 1.4. Have they decided to just call all versions 1.2 or just the core, especially since the netbook page no longer lists 1.4 updates?
I really liked MeeGo's interface on my netbook but the styling is kind of childish. The other downside is the lack of applications offered and 3rd party audio support.
That's great and all but it is still dependant on your device(s). You loose one, and you have to do it all over again. Add a new CD? It can be sync'd between the 3 devices consumers tend to have, phone, tablet and Desktop/Laptop. So instead of copying them one by one, or when you buy music online, having to dump it and back it up, the library is there.
A lot of people will really appreciate this service. I'm one. As a DJ I have a lot of backups of important music files and hard drives, records etc etc. Now I just keep the Analogue copies and one place for my digital copies. Instead of in CDs, phones, iPods, USBs, Extern-HDs. I'm tried of E-Waste too, it's cloud services that will keep my data accessible in a connected world. Google Docs has changed the way I handle a lot of my files, having this extended to music will be excellent.
Thank you parent for clearing up that nonsense so I didn't have to RTFA. However, by switching to Intel won't that also drive the cost up considerably?
The simple answer is iTunes. Billions and Billions of downloads since its inception. Combine the App store sales and music sales and it easily covers any cost of making the device. This is something the competition doesn't have. Nobody has the user-base of iPods and iPhones in their back-pocket and nobody can offer that experience yet. iTunes is popular even without the iPod and Apple says nobody's devices can play nice with iTunes, the only exception was Palm's Pre.
I don't like Apple much but they have the users and that's all that matters.
Mac users live in a post-PC world. Ever since the Intel Switch the hardware game is basically done. Apple seems bent on showing consumers that they're not even in the debate anymore. The argument is redundant. It's about the experience. Apple product design is what matters as a brand and as an experience. Unfortunately developers will have to play nice or get out of their post-pc world.
Maybe they should bring him back? Unfortunately, like was mentioned before Steve Jobs is Apple's leader. What I think is important is for them not to get sidetracked on a search for a new face but instead keep their products innovative and in the spotlight.
The release of a new version in Chrome OS is every 6 weeks. That is the OS alone, not the kernel. Unfortunately, like Android there is too much hardware out there and too many companies playing for standards. It will be up to the company you bought the laptop from to make sure the essentials work properly--in the end it is still up to them to screw your system as well. Acer loads a lot of crap-ware on their PCs, laptops and Notebooks. I expect them to do exactly the same thing with Chrome.
I'd really like to comment on this but I afraid of the consequences. I'd like to work someday and possibly travel to the US. I'd rather just pretend I don't know what's happening. Besides, none of this really affects me. It's about the past and from where I stand today nothing from any of the actions they have taken has changed my life in any way. At least now yet.
Actually no, I don't expect this of political journalists at all, especially in regards to Obama since I'm not American.
There is a less political example of this type of situation involving Steve Wozniak being mis-quoted by a Dutch tabloid newspaper.
I disagree that Politics is the news leader, but it is the drama that is created to make it a news leader that the mindless are drawn to. My comment was about research and merit that lacks in modern, mainstream journalism. Politicians making extremes back and forth is only a part of the problem.
That there are fewer and fewer journalist. Now there are only people posting thoughtless articles with little merit in order to entertain and draw traffic/viewers to a web site or channel.
How is this insightful? It's completely off topic and Iran doesn't have an agenda for the world besides it wanting to operate Iran as it. The real reason we get bullshit ideas like 'Iran wants to push its own agenda too: islamification of the world..' is because they have the second large reserve of oil(http://www.petrostrategies.org/Links/worlds_largest_oil_and_gas_companies.htm) on the planet and the US wants more control.
Doesn't matter how you spin it the US needs to invest in its people instead of companies.
But this doesn't mean that the US will make the right moves and invest into itself, in fact I think they'll do the opposite. There's only so many times you can throw money out and expect Corporations to develop good busniess state-side(see automakers, see banks) As TFA points out, it would take the US quite a bit of time to catch up in terms of production and refinement, and we don't have any refineries, let alone good clean ones that would be required. Other Countries only make up 3% of of the current output, and it is still China who refines it. We have a problem in Canada where we allow other countries to dig out and own the resources and the only penny seen is in the blue collar work, which isn't much. If we developed and hired we'd have a lot more money floating around, instead our Oil money goes to Holland and our natural gas to the US. Canadian's loose on everything but the cheapest labour.
Although the products China ships with these materials are not being stopped, so don't worry about your iPhone 4's or Acer netbooks not arriving. There are a few big companies who use these materials to build their own chips here in NA will suffer (Intel/IBM come to mind).
Bandwidth isn't cheap now, but it isn't neutral either, which would quickly change the former. I think that is important, especially in the case of every-day users. Our Internet is still in the hands of the ISPs and Torrenting, legal or otherwise is not something they want to see.
Well I know at most Universities and colleges have specific brands and models they accept, and those they do must include a inspection sticker. This is for use in Exams only. Graphing examples with devices are allowed in class, but Physics/Math at the college level doesn't need anything that saves Data.
As a Canadian, I'm proud to say they thought about this problem at least 5 years ago...
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Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
On a simulated mission, you're just guinea pigs. Staying motivated must very difficult.
I certainly agree to some extent. If you check out the links this goes beyond simple will-power and excitement. It is more biological. This isn't the first time this has been talked about either and even Sci-fi writers though about this issue for long trips in our era (Earth room in Danny Boyles 'Sunshine' comes to mind).
Mood lighting in over-seas flights help with sleeping on modern aircraft too, regardless of the excitement of passengers arriving in a time-zone much different from the one they left in. This is just a silly example that seems to fit with their findings. Yes, long-haul flights are 7 to 20 hours long but it is the closest most of us come to that kind of scenario.
Lots of, um, words about disjointed stuff that I couldn't tie together. Maybe someone else can be so helpful as to sum it up in a way that makes sense?
Unfortunately there isn't much to the article. It started off like it had a real purpose but it is barely an introduction to Jaron Lanier.
However, what's important to his arguments and a lot of us who feel 'anonymity' is important is this: Anonymity isn't about hiding. It's about being safe to be yourself.
Your BBS example is important because reasonable parties involved resolving an act that isn't called for. Services like Facebook can do whatever they please the data you provide them with, especially since they can make a penny with marketing it. It gets worse when corporate or government interest moves in to collect this data. It isn't that -you- have anything to hide, but you don't have control where that data goes, or even knowledge to whether it is being protected with the civil-liberties you're supposed to have.
The only thing I can think to compare it to is speeding on the highway. You might be the type who goes 110 in a 100 zone. You might be the type to follow the guy in front of you who is going 130 and hope he gets the ticket. Either way, it's your choice and you know that you're not breaking a terrible law. You can do your best to spot a cop, and adjust accordingly. You're still you, your car, your plates...Your choice. Lets say now that your car is speeding down the highway and you're late, so you speed up a bit. But nope, 80$ warning ticket for 10km/h over the limit. On top of that, you're on your way to an interview and you drive a Toyota Tercel, unfortunately the job is a sale position for a company that makes steering wheels for Honda. The staff see that you like to speed, drive a Toyota and dont plan ahead as not to be late.
Okay, I really reached on the analogy. I don't like the idea of companies getting involved with my personal life. Neither do I want the government and it's fluxing ideals to collect every opinion I've had and judge me for it. This is a real possibility today.
I think the biggest issue is Direct X. It is what continues to lock developers and big studios to the Window's platform.
Seriously? The keyword is 'planning' and it is early in construction. He didn't say he was leaving this week and is headed to his local boat shop. His problem is one that fits this community: plenty of radio nerds, seamen and a good amount of engineers floating around the comments. I for one am interested in what kind of equipment comes up.
I'm looking at a quick list of vaccinations for from my local clinic that range between 20$ and 120$. 5 millions kids in California seems like a nice chunk of change.
I'm pretty sure that was part of their initial brainstorming of names, but business people respond better to edgy sounding names like 'X', and 'RR' when it comes to products. Scientific fact.
BBQ would have just made them more of a laughing stock,"Hey did you try Black Berry's new OS BBQ? No? Well I hear it's 'well-done!'"
Can you imagine?
Sorry, jumped the gun and I didn't post a link: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/
Check out MIT's OCW. Free lectures with a GPL Python programming book that does an excellent job at explaining programming and the Python language. The lectures are bad quality but the projects are good for practice.
"...in the coming years Watson will lend doctors a helping hand as they perform their daily rounds."
So basically, between the nurses and the computer, the doctors will now just have to smile and nod?
I am kidding of course, the more tools that medical professionals have the better.
[J]
I am a little confused. I have a netbook with version 1.4. Have they decided to just call all versions 1.2 or just the core, especially since the netbook page no longer lists 1.4 updates?
I really liked MeeGo's interface on my netbook but the styling is kind of childish. The other downside is the lack of applications offered and 3rd party audio support.
[J]
A lot of people will really appreciate this service. I'm one. As a DJ I have a lot of backups of important music files and hard drives, records etc etc. Now I just keep the Analogue copies and one place for my digital copies. Instead of in CDs, phones, iPods, USBs, Extern-HDs. I'm tried of E-Waste too, it's cloud services that will keep my data accessible in a connected world. Google Docs has changed the way I handle a lot of my files, having this extended to music will be excellent.
Thank you parent for clearing up that nonsense so I didn't have to RTFA. However, by switching to Intel won't that also drive the cost up considerably?
The simple answer is iTunes. Billions and Billions of downloads since its inception. Combine the App store sales and music sales and it easily covers any cost of making the device. This is something the competition doesn't have. Nobody has the user-base of iPods and iPhones in their back-pocket and nobody can offer that experience yet. iTunes is popular even without the iPod and Apple says nobody's devices can play nice with iTunes, the only exception was Palm's Pre.
I don't like Apple much but they have the users and that's all that matters.
[J]
Mac users live in a post-PC world. Ever since the Intel Switch the hardware game is basically done. Apple seems bent on showing consumers that they're not even in the debate anymore. The argument is redundant. It's about the experience. Apple product design is what matters as a brand and as an experience. Unfortunately developers will have to play nice or get out of their post-pc world.
Maybe they should bring him back? Unfortunately, like was mentioned before Steve Jobs is Apple's leader. What I think is important is for them not to get sidetracked on a search for a new face but instead keep their products innovative and in the spotlight.
The release of a new version in Chrome OS is every 6 weeks. That is the OS alone, not the kernel. Unfortunately, like Android there is too much hardware out there and too many companies playing for standards. It will be up to the company you bought the laptop from to make sure the essentials work properly--in the end it is still up to them to screw your system as well. Acer loads a lot of crap-ware on their PCs, laptops and Notebooks. I expect them to do exactly the same thing with Chrome.
I'd really like to comment on this but I afraid of the consequences. I'd like to work someday and possibly travel to the US. I'd rather just pretend I don't know what's happening. Besides, none of this really affects me. It's about the past and from where I stand today nothing from any of the actions they have taken has changed my life in any way. At least now yet.
[J]
Actually no, I don't expect this of political journalists at all, especially in regards to Obama since I'm not American.
There is a less political example of this type of situation involving Steve Wozniak being mis-quoted by a Dutch tabloid newspaper.
I disagree that Politics is the news leader, but it is the drama that is created to make it a news leader that the mindless are drawn to. My comment was about research and merit that lacks in modern, mainstream journalism. Politicians making extremes back and forth is only a part of the problem.
[J]
That there are fewer and fewer journalist. Now there are only people posting thoughtless articles with little merit in order to entertain and draw traffic/viewers to a web site or channel.
[J]
How is this insightful? It's completely off topic and Iran doesn't have an agenda for the world besides it wanting to operate Iran as it. The real reason we get bullshit ideas like 'Iran wants to push its own agenda too: islamification of the world..' is because they have the second large reserve of oil(http://www.petrostrategies.org/Links/worlds_largest_oil_and_gas_companies.htm) on the planet and the US wants more control.
Doesn't matter how you spin it the US needs to invest in its people instead of companies.
But this doesn't mean that the US will make the right moves and invest into itself, in fact I think they'll do the opposite. There's only so many times you can throw money out and expect Corporations to develop good busniess state-side(see automakers, see banks) As TFA points out, it would take the US quite a bit of time to catch up in terms of production and refinement, and we don't have any refineries, let alone good clean ones that would be required. Other Countries only make up 3% of of the current output, and it is still China who refines it. We have a problem in Canada where we allow other countries to dig out and own the resources and the only penny seen is in the blue collar work, which isn't much. If we developed and hired we'd have a lot more money floating around, instead our Oil money goes to Holland and our natural gas to the US. Canadian's loose on everything but the cheapest labour.
Although the products China ships with these materials are not being stopped, so don't worry about your iPhone 4's or Acer netbooks not arriving. There are a few big companies who use these materials to build their own chips here in NA will suffer (Intel/IBM come to mind).
[J]
Bandwidth isn't cheap now, but it isn't neutral either, which would quickly change the former. I think that is important, especially in the case of every-day users. Our Internet is still in the hands of the ISPs and Torrenting, legal or otherwise is not something they want to see.
[J]
I for one welcome our new Giant Penguin Overlords...
Well I know at most Universities and colleges have specific brands and models they accept, and those they do must include a inspection sticker. This is for use in Exams only. Graphing examples with devices are allowed in class, but Physics/Math at the college level doesn't need anything that saves Data.
As a Canadian, I'm proud to say they thought about this problem at least 5 years ago...
[J]