Once you get these fixed, I think that you will find the next problem will be that once you hit Cmd-F to activate the Finder's find, the cursor will actually be in the Spotlight textbox, not the find textbox, ie you will need to hit tab or click in the find textbox.
Reminds me about the joke about how to measure the height of a building using a barometer.
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper.
Given that computers are everywhere, I am starting to worry about computers being bugged (let me adjust my foil hat here). Keyloggers, rootkits, and worms are often mentioned but we seldom worry about them when we are not actually using the computers- they have become part of the office and home environment.
All current laptops have microphones and some have built in cameras. Desktops also usually have microphones and often have cameras. Many have continuous internet access. Computers are ubiquitous and they are often left on. It is not hard to imagine infecting a vulnerable computer with a small program to send back continuous audio and an occasional picture. With reasonable bit rates and good encoding, it would not use much bandwidth.
Does anyone else worry about such things? Has this been done already? If it has, would you know about it? (pull foil hat on tighter)
I think that most people would agree that Amal Graafstra should take the prize for the craziest use of RFID. All of the other things on the list are so so. Most people would try it once, may or may not like it/find it useful/find it annoying. Very few would ever consider doing what this guy did- have a RFID surgically implanted into his hand. Here is the link:
"Becoming arthritic" is purely descriptive. There are over 100 different causes of arthritis, ie pain/inflammation of the joint(s). Find out what type you have. If you have osteoarthritis (aka degenerative arthritis) find out whether you have an associated disorder such as hemachromatosis which can also affect your liver and pancreas. Hemachromatosis is treatable and therefore it is rather important to find out.
If you have an inflammatory arthritis, there are now very effective treatments.
Don't bother trying to google diagnose yourself. Go see a rheumatologist, a doctor who specializes in arthritis.
If/when you are ready to write yourself off, then by all means, find out what the best games to play are.
"Often a person will subscribe to a position only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Nietzsche
The argument could just as easily be applied the other way. Some people decide to use a Mac not only because it just works but because it runs counter to everything a PC stands for: lemming-like devotion to an arguably inferior OS, the OS of choice for an immoral corporate America that would pimp out mom for a profit, giving more money to a mega-corporation convicted of monopolistic practices, blatant disregard for open-standards and apple pie, etc.
Having said that, I do think that the Apple ads are rather mean-spirited and insulting to the people that they want to win over (Microsoft's ads on the other hand are pretty slick and leave you with a feel-good feeling even though there is little to no substance to their ads). Perhaps Apple is hoping that potential customers are so fed up with Windows that they just need to be shown an alternative before they jump ship.
Perhaps Sony is much shrewder than we give them credit for. Hear me out. When the Xbox360 was released, there was a huge markup when they were sold on eBay.
First, this proves that there are a lot of rich suckers out there willing to pay a premium for gaming consoles. Second, if you raise the price and sell directly to those people, you cut out the middle men. Thirdly, when the first wave of buyers is saturated and the price of components falls, you drop the price and keep the same margin. It is economics 101 to maximize profit by charging the highest price that the individual consumer will pay.
How exactly was Darwin wrong? I agree that sustainability is important and fertility, rate of reproduction play into this. As for stronger, faster, smarter, those traits might help in reproduction/sustainability but only for organisms that require those features, ie bird, mammals, fish, insects. Faster, smarter, stronger aren't characteristics that are applicable to bacteria. Probably the only things that matter for bacterial survival are resistance environmental factors and ability to utilize resources for food (probably others but those are off the top of my head).
I agree that bacteria are going to outlast humans but what is so smart about polluting yourself into oblivion? We call ourself "higher organisms" but only out of arrogance. Humans are one of the most fragile organisms on the planet, albeit with amazing destructive potential. Our dexterity and thinking allow us to live in a variety of environments but take a naked human without technology and think about where he/she could survive. No fur, slow and weak compared to our predators AND prey. Probably could survive only in habitats inhabited by the apes. After humans are gone off the face of the earth, who will consider us to be "higher" organsims?
So don't spout of pretending to understand the importance of this. On one hand you appear to take the theory of evolution as given. I have no problems with that but then you say that they didn't need their "silly experiment" to come up with this hypothesis. Their experiment wasn't to see WHETHER the bacteria would mutate but rather HOW they would mutate given changes in the environment.
Now think about the chances/probabilities of any given outcome. Billions of bacteria are going through thousands of generations in a changing environment. The potential number of outcomes are uncountable but the observed result is that six dominant mutations arise. Now another experiement is run with billions of bacteria going through thousands of generations. The SAME six dominant mutations arise in the same order! That is a truly ASTOUNDING result!
My only concern is that there was possible contamination of the bacterial incubator between experimental runs causing the same mutations to arise in which case 10 repetitions of the experiment are going to give the same result. If the two experiements were truly independent, ie no contamination, this is a big result.
Not quite so easy. DNA is transcribed into RNA and RNA is translated into protein. You can look for runs of DNA without stop codons called open reading frames (ORFs) but this does not give you a gene. That is because eukariotic organisms (mammals included) splice their RNA prior to translating into DNA. That means that genes have a lot of extra DNA (introns) interspersed between the DNA that actually encodes for protein sequence (exons). Genes often have a lot more intron (intervening) than exon (coding).
I won't pretend to fully undertand the math involved but hidden Markov models (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_Model) are used to determine the presence of genes. This gives the probability that a stretch of DNA is a gene so depending on the cutoff used, the gene count goes up and down a little bit.
* let idiots like danceswithtrees engage in "free speech," no matter how utterly asinine it may be.
OK, I'll bite.
Let's start with the name calling- why exactly am I an idiot? Because I don't share your views? Grow up.
Why do you put quotation marks around free speech? Is it because you don't feel that what I have to say is "free speech?" Should you be the arbritrator of "free speech?" Or better yet, let the NSA determine? They seem to be listening to a lot more than they are entitled to in my opinion.
Lastly, what is asinine about my post? Was any of it not factually correct? Or once again, is it a matter of you not sharing my world view?
Please try to be civil. Say something useful. Back up what you say.
Imprison citizens w/o charges for 3 years!, change charges and transfer custody to civilian justice system (Jose Padilla)
Don't let gays marry (more repressive than South Africa for crying out loud!)
Secret eastern European prison/torture camps
Bush leaks secrets, lets journalist rot in jail, lets Scooter twist in the wind, and only when found out, says that he can "declassify secrets" whenever he wants
2nd highest perinatal mortality in the developed world.
The first is by expression profiling- looking at difference in gene expression. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_chip This will actually give you a readout of how the two cells are different in terms of how they use different genes to express their differences.
The other is positional cloning. You basically breed a resistant mouse with a non-resistant mouse to get an F1 intercross. If you are dealing with inbred mice, these are genetically identical but each chromosome is different- one from mom and one from dad. You breed this generation with eachother to get an F2 intercross and then phenotype the offspring (are they resistant to cancer?) and then genotype them (what are their genetic differences?). Genes undergo semi-random reassortment through cross-over events and all offspring in the F2 incross have a random sprinkling of genes from mom and dad. You then do linkage analysis to find out which genetic differences are most closely linked to the phenotype you are looking for.
Their lighters are arguably the best and pretty much the monopoly on disposable lighters. The price of them has not gone up in 20 years. They are excellent lighters.
Bic might have a dominant market share of disposable lighters but that does not make a monopoly. They keep their prices low because if they were to raise prices, other manufacturers would come in and start producing competing products. People who use lighters are not locked into a particular brand- there is little to no barrier to switching lighter brands. Bic can't use their dominant market share to force their users to do anything. This is the exact opposite of a monopoly. They don't spread FUD because they can't.
They don't advertise because there is no need. A competing manufacturer would have to advertise to steal market share from Bic, but Bic doesn't need to do anything to keep marketshare as long as they don't raise prices.
When everyone and their brother wants to fill a role they're not qualified imagine that, they get paid like shit.
This sort of misses the point of the problem. There are a fixed and small number of well paying job and special skills or knowledge are required to get them. The number of unskilled jobs is very large- more jobs than there are people to fill them. These are the jobs that our president refers to as "jobs that Americans just won't do." These jobs are almost uniformly low paying, often menial, sometimes dangerous (recent statistic about 25% of all workplace deaths involve undocumented workers, which is disproportionately high).
Unfortunately, our American lifesytle and economy seem to require these jobs. The people who pick our vegetables, serve us in restaurants, work in supermarkets, work in hotels, work security jobs, etc. They are everywhere. Imagine how life would change without these jobs/people.
In fact, the American lifestyle is addicted to low paying jobs and what they mean- $2 BigMacs, $40 DVD players, cheap vegetables, etc. Companies outsource whenever they can to reduce cost and we , the consumers, reward them with our business. Over half a trillion dollars in trade deficits go overseas every year. Half a TRILLION dollars! Two or three years ago, there was a rumor that S. Korea was going to sell of US dollars in favor of Euros. Based on this rumor, the value of the dollar fell about a percent. China owns at least an order of magnitude more dollars (and growing every day). The administration accuses China of artificially devaluing their currency to keep costs of their good low. China/US relations quite frankly suck- US spy planes off the coast of China crashing into a fighter jet, the US bombing the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, President Hu visiting Bill Gates prior to president Bush, each accusing the other about human rights violations. The list goes on and on. China is a proud nation that is rising fast, sending up people in to space, and taking a more dominant place on the world stage. If/when they want to break the US financially, they almost certainly can.
Meanwhile, we, Americans, continue to pay illegal immigrant works to do "jobs that Americans won't do." All the while paying other Americans money for unemployment and welfare (Add to that the problem of billions being spent in Iraq.) The national debt is increasing. Bottom line is that this is not sustainable. One day China, Saudi Arabia, and all the other countries that own US dollars are going to decide that the US dollar is not a good investment (would you buy stock in any company that year after year goes further into debt?). That day is not far off.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think that it involves something like paying people in the US a living wage, increasing the wages on "jobs Americans don't want" to the point where Americans would want them, stop migrating jobs out of the US, stop increasing the national debt, ie stop giving tax cuts with money you don't have. Americans will have to accept that it costs money to maintain our society, country, and way of life. It certainly does not involve smugly saying that if they are not qualified, they get paid "like shit."
I don't think so. Perhaps it just proves that he read at least one of the books involved- which is a good thing. The whole case was about the first book's ideas (a book which was not about fiction but new interpretations of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen, ie NON-FICTION) being used as the basis for a FICTIONAL story. The whole basis for the case was a bit fishy.
In any case, sales of the first book have skyrocketed and the author of the first book must be happy (if this was his plan, kudos). Dan Brown (author of the DaVinci Code) won the case, the movie is just coming out, and the whole ordeal has created even more publicity (any publicity is good publicity). In other words, both parties came out ahead! No need for a retrial because both parties are happy.
Work in a cubicle for $40000 to $150000 while surrounded by fairly intelligent nerds...
What will the salaries be once more and more jobs are outsourced? Probably closer to $40K unless you posess special skills.
I think that programming is vastly underutilized. I see very intelligent people doing mind-numbingly repetitive tasks that could be taken care of quickly and efficiently with a short program. Even Excel functions can be used to speed certain tasks. Problem is that these very intelligent people just don't know how to program- in any language.
There is the other extreme however- spending an hour on a program that would have taken 30 minutes of time to do manually. Oh well- price of being a nerd.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 618105941143
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 501162147222
I have mine defaulting to only "Name contains"
Once you get these fixed, I think that you will find the next problem will be that once you hit Cmd-F to activate the Finder's find, the cursor will actually be in the Spotlight textbox, not the find textbox, ie you will need to hit tab or click in the find textbox.
All current laptops have microphones and some have built in cameras. Desktops also usually have microphones and often have cameras. Many have continuous internet access. Computers are ubiquitous and they are often left on. It is not hard to imagine infecting a vulnerable computer with a small program to send back continuous audio and an occasional picture. With reasonable bit rates and good encoding, it would not use much bandwidth.
Does anyone else worry about such things? Has this been done already? If it has, would you know about it? (pull foil hat on tighter)
http://www.bmezine.com/news/presenttense/20050330. html
There are before and after pictures as well as a video of the procedure.
If you have an inflammatory arthritis, there are now very effective treatments.
Don't bother trying to google diagnose yourself. Go see a rheumatologist, a doctor who specializes in arthritis.
If/when you are ready to write yourself off, then by all means, find out what the best games to play are.
Do you mean a write-only hard drive? Sort of like write-only memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Only_Memory?
The argument could just as easily be applied the other way. Some people decide to use a Mac not only because it just works but because it runs counter to everything a PC stands for: lemming-like devotion to an arguably inferior OS, the OS of choice for an immoral corporate America that would pimp out mom for a profit, giving more money to a mega-corporation convicted of monopolistic practices, blatant disregard for open-standards and apple pie, etc.
Having said that, I do think that the Apple ads are rather mean-spirited and insulting to the people that they want to win over (Microsoft's ads on the other hand are pretty slick and leave you with a feel-good feeling even though there is little to no substance to their ads). Perhaps Apple is hoping that potential customers are so fed up with Windows that they just need to be shown an alternative before they jump ship.
They forgot to mention that half of those 5000 lines are written in whitespace http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
Sounds eerily similar to an old April Fool's joke from Signetics.
http://www.ganssle.com/misc/wom.html
Perhaps Sony is much shrewder than we give them credit for. Hear me out. When the Xbox360 was released, there was a huge markup when they were sold on eBay.
First, this proves that there are a lot of rich suckers out there willing to pay a premium for gaming consoles. Second, if you raise the price and sell directly to those people, you cut out the middle men. Thirdly, when the first wave of buyers is saturated and the price of components falls, you drop the price and keep the same margin. It is economics 101 to maximize profit by charging the highest price that the individual consumer will pay.
Crazy like a fox!
For those who leaped before looking, this must be great news. Take for example
3 1213
or this guy. html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/12/00
http://www.bmezine.com/news/presenttense/20050330
Oh well.
Does it work with a foil hat?
How exactly was Darwin wrong? I agree that sustainability is important and fertility, rate of reproduction play into this. As for stronger, faster, smarter, those traits might help in reproduction/sustainability but only for organisms that require those features, ie bird, mammals, fish, insects. Faster, smarter, stronger aren't characteristics that are applicable to bacteria. Probably the only things that matter for bacterial survival are resistance environmental factors and ability to utilize resources for food (probably others but those are off the top of my head).
I agree that bacteria are going to outlast humans but what is so smart about polluting yourself into oblivion? We call ourself "higher organisms" but only out of arrogance. Humans are one of the most fragile organisms on the planet, albeit with amazing destructive potential. Our dexterity and thinking allow us to live in a variety of environments but take a naked human without technology and think about where he/she could survive. No fur, slow and weak compared to our predators AND prey. Probably could survive only in habitats inhabited by the apes. After humans are gone off the face of the earth, who will consider us to be "higher" organsims?
So don't spout of pretending to understand the importance of this. On one hand you appear to take the theory of evolution as given. I have no problems with that but then you say that they didn't need their "silly experiment" to come up with this hypothesis. Their experiment wasn't to see WHETHER the bacteria would mutate but rather HOW they would mutate given changes in the environment.
Now think about the chances/probabilities of any given outcome. Billions of bacteria are going through thousands of generations in a changing environment. The potential number of outcomes are uncountable but the observed result is that six dominant mutations arise. Now another experiement is run with billions of bacteria going through thousands of generations. The SAME six dominant mutations arise in the same order! That is a truly ASTOUNDING result!
My only concern is that there was possible contamination of the bacterial incubator between experimental runs causing the same mutations to arise in which case 10 repetitions of the experiment are going to give the same result. If the two experiements were truly independent, ie no contamination, this is a big result.
Not quite so easy. DNA is transcribed into RNA and RNA is translated into protein. You can look for runs of DNA without stop codons called open reading frames (ORFs) but this does not give you a gene. That is because eukariotic organisms (mammals included) splice their RNA prior to translating into DNA. That means that genes have a lot of extra DNA (introns) interspersed between the DNA that actually encodes for protein sequence (exons). Genes often have a lot more intron (intervening) than exon (coding).
) are used to determine the presence of genes. This gives the probability that a stretch of DNA is a gene so depending on the cutoff used, the gene count goes up and down a little bit.
I won't pretend to fully undertand the math involved but hidden Markov models (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_Model
Let's start with the name calling- why exactly am I an idiot? Because I don't share your views? Grow up.
Why do you put quotation marks around free speech? Is it because you don't feel that what I have to say is "free speech?" Should you be the arbritrator of "free speech?" Or better yet, let the NSA determine? They seem to be listening to a lot more than they are entitled to in my opinion.
Lastly, what is asinine about my post? Was any of it not factually correct? Or once again, is it a matter of you not sharing my world view?
Please try to be civil. Say something useful. Back up what you say.
There are two different ways to do this.
The first is by expression profiling- looking at difference in gene expression. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_chip This will actually give you a readout of how the two cells are different in terms of how they use different genes to express their differences.
The other is positional cloning. You basically breed a resistant mouse with a non-resistant mouse to get an F1 intercross. If you are dealing with inbred mice, these are genetically identical but each chromosome is different- one from mom and one from dad. You breed this generation with eachother to get an F2 intercross and then phenotype the offspring (are they resistant to cancer?) and then genotype them (what are their genetic differences?). Genes undergo semi-random reassortment through cross-over events and all offspring in the F2 incross have a random sprinkling of genes from mom and dad. You then do linkage analysis to find out which genetic differences are most closely linked to the phenotype you are looking for.
They don't advertise because there is no need. A competing manufacturer would have to advertise to steal market share from Bic, but Bic doesn't need to do anything to keep marketshare as long as they don't raise prices.
That is to take into account the 2.4% tax.
apple.com
This sort of misses the point of the problem. There are a fixed and small number of well paying job and special skills or knowledge are required to get them. The number of unskilled jobs is very large- more jobs than there are people to fill them. These are the jobs that our president refers to as "jobs that Americans just won't do." These jobs are almost uniformly low paying, often menial, sometimes dangerous (recent statistic about 25% of all workplace deaths involve undocumented workers, which is disproportionately high).
Unfortunately, our American lifesytle and economy seem to require these jobs. The people who pick our vegetables, serve us in restaurants, work in supermarkets, work in hotels, work security jobs, etc. They are everywhere. Imagine how life would change without these jobs/people.
In fact, the American lifestyle is addicted to low paying jobs and what they mean- $2 BigMacs, $40 DVD players, cheap vegetables, etc. Companies outsource whenever they can to reduce cost and we , the consumers, reward them with our business. Over half a trillion dollars in trade deficits go overseas every year. Half a TRILLION dollars! Two or three years ago, there was a rumor that S. Korea was going to sell of US dollars in favor of Euros. Based on this rumor, the value of the dollar fell about a percent. China owns at least an order of magnitude more dollars (and growing every day). The administration accuses China of artificially devaluing their currency to keep costs of their good low. China/US relations quite frankly suck- US spy planes off the coast of China crashing into a fighter jet, the US bombing the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, President Hu visiting Bill Gates prior to president Bush, each accusing the other about human rights violations. The list goes on and on. China is a proud nation that is rising fast, sending up people in to space, and taking a more dominant place on the world stage. If/when they want to break the US financially, they almost certainly can.
Meanwhile, we, Americans, continue to pay illegal immigrant works to do "jobs that Americans won't do." All the while paying other Americans money for unemployment and welfare (Add to that the problem of billions being spent in Iraq.) The national debt is increasing. Bottom line is that this is not sustainable. One day China, Saudi Arabia, and all the other countries that own US dollars are going to decide that the US dollar is not a good investment (would you buy stock in any company that year after year goes further into debt?). That day is not far off.
I don't claim to have all the answers but I think that it involves something like paying people in the US a living wage, increasing the wages on "jobs Americans don't want" to the point where Americans would want them, stop migrating jobs out of the US, stop increasing the national debt, ie stop giving tax cuts with money you don't have. Americans will have to accept that it costs money to maintain our society, country, and way of life. It certainly does not involve smugly saying that if they are not qualified, they get paid "like shit."
I don't think so. Perhaps it just proves that he read at least one of the books involved- which is a good thing. The whole case was about the first book's ideas (a book which was not about fiction but new interpretations of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen, ie NON-FICTION) being used as the basis for a FICTIONAL story. The whole basis for the case was a bit fishy.
In any case, sales of the first book have skyrocketed and the author of the first book must be happy (if this was his plan, kudos). Dan Brown (author of the DaVinci Code) won the case, the movie is just coming out, and the whole ordeal has created even more publicity (any publicity is good publicity). In other words, both parties came out ahead! No need for a retrial because both parties are happy.
Work in a cubicle for $40000 to $150000 while surrounded by fairly intelligent nerds...
What will the salaries be once more and more jobs are outsourced? Probably closer to $40K unless you posess special skills.
I think that programming is vastly underutilized. I see very intelligent people doing mind-numbingly repetitive tasks that could be taken care of quickly and efficiently with a short program. Even Excel functions can be used to speed certain tasks. Problem is that these very intelligent people just don't know how to program- in any language.
There is the other extreme however- spending an hour on a program that would have taken 30 minutes of time to do manually. Oh well- price of being a nerd.