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uhm.. yes.. first you say "WAY different", but then "..similar to Motorola.." and "..sometimes vaguely similar.."..

So what now.. the samsung doesn't look exactly like the iphone either, only similar (woohoo it consists mainly of a touch screen!).. Same thing for pretty much every electronic device as i said in the other post..

Asi said, this whole discussion is just stupid. Someone who can't tell the difference between phones and tablets wouldn't be alte to tell the difference between televisions or cars or whatever.. Only that for all other products nobody cares.
> Where is there a sound research base on any "nootropic" or "neuroenhancer" or "smart drug" or the like that has been subjected to thoughtful scientific examination

It's hard to get studies like this approved and funded. Some chemicals are either illegal, or they are in a legal grey area. And it's very hard to get ethics panel approving for something that is not"treating" or "curing" ill patients.
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Ha ha ha, are you kidding? I have been forced to use the Nexus One for the last 2 weeks. Maps do not work, it often forgets caching, and never finds my current position. This worked so well on the 3g and iPhone 4. There is stuttering about 1 a day. The gmail app is awful, it never starts up on the inbox page, and doesn't seem to automatically refresh when I restart it. Putting the buttons at the bottom of the screen is plain stupid, whenever I use the keyboard I seem to keep hitting the home button.

Sure it is useable, and I with the newer OS they seem to have gotten rid of the bottom buttons.
As I said, it's not just the different models, it's the different avionics suites within each model (e.g. two aircraft of the same model might have different radios or different navigation equipment, etc.). For each plane, you would need a few hours of testing, which probably costs more than $1000/hour: you have to pay for the plane, the crew (who have to be qualified to perform this type of testing), the ground support equipment, maintenance support, and any fuel burned during testing (e.g. running the APU to provide power during testing will consume a small but not insignificant quantity of fuel).

EDIT: Almost forgot: After the testing is complete, you have to pay to have a test report written up and published, and then you have to pay for the FAA certification process. Probably not cheap.
Why is it that coding is such a rare (relatively speaking) skill?

Sure, there are some hard concepts in coding, but for loops and conditional statements are hardly more difficult to understand than a lot of the math which gets taught in junior high.

Speaking of that, why is it essential for young people to learn algebra but not to learn for and if?
It wasn't me but... Don't overthink a single downvote: the up and down arrows are awfully close, and it's easy to misclick, particularly on a tablet.
I think its pretty clear that someone could come up with
some sort of device that might take over the plane avionics.

A lot of planes have avionics systems that are, to put it quite blunt, not secure from tampering by a determined foe.

There isn't enough work done to secure a lot of the systems on planes from intrusion/hacking, and in some cases its quite feasible that someone using a self-made device could do dangerous things to an aircraft during flight. There are plenty of radio devices that can be modified or simply used to interfere with avionics and navigation/comms equipment, and in many cases these devices are indistinguishable from average consumer products in design.

So I think its only fair that a general blank policy be put in place. They're not really trying to prevent you from using your cell phone; they're trying to prevent the terrorist who has a $200 radio modified for jamming/confusion purposes that looks like a cell-phone.
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> He's particularly harsh on Taylor's early experiments, which claimed to be scientific but were anything but.

I found it recently of how great an influence Taylorism also had on the 1920s' and 1930s' Soviet industry (which, in retrospect, makes perfect sense).

From here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management#Soviet_Un...

"""
Historian Thomas P. Hughes[23] has detailed the way in which the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s enthusiastically embraced Fordism and Taylorism, importing American experts in both fields as well as American engineering firms to build parts of its new industrial infrastructure. The concepts of the Five Year Plan and the centrally planned economy can be traced directly to the influence of Taylorism on Soviet thinking. Hughes quotes Joseph Stalin:

American efficiency is that indomitable force which neither knows nor recognises obstacles; which continues on a task once started until it is finished, even if it is a minor task; and without which serious constructive work is impossible.... The combination of the Russian revolutionary sweep with American efficiency is the essence of Leninism.[24]

"""
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To be a fair comparison, we'd need to see all time magazine covers, not just the ones where the US edition gets a different cover.
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That definition is limited to small physical objects. What about 4'33", is it art? What about Christo's works, like wrapping the Reichstag or the Umbrelllas[1] ?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
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Haha, you make a good point.

Nonetheless, flying could be an amazing experience. But fliers are some of the least happy people because they are treated either like criminas, children, or cattle. If the time isn't quite stolen, it is at least spoiled.
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The simplest way would be to shove computing under the maths curriculum. Teach if with guard statements, and skip for, teach recursion. by the time the kids get to sixth form, have a mathmatical computation course where you teach them to apply their knowledge to a language like haskell that mirrors mathmatical notation quite well.
And many others who disagree, like me. So how is a completely subjective definition 'excellent'?
That reminds me of a scene from that animation movie about Iran (Persepolis). There is a scene where someone can not get required heart surgery because the revolutionary party denies it - the person responsible for the decision is the former janitor of the person who needs the surgery.

In the same vein you want to leave it to trash men and cleaning ladies to decide what is valuable culture. I don't think it is a good idea (and I am trying hard to avoid Godwin's law here...).
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I think the metaphor goes deeper. Knowing Latin (and Greek) opened doors to greater learning, providing access to classical writing and history. Indeed, the Renaissance was built on Latin and Greek study. It also was a common language that united the educated elite across Europe.
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Doesn't look so; OTOH a bunch of these only work on MS Windows.
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I do hope he split it with the janitor.
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I'd really appreciate any criticism and feedback even more so.
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Was it a Mozilla project in the first place? I thought it was just a very popular third-party addon?
I'm guessing the justification is that switching apps is consistent with the fact that the OS X Dock shows apps, not windows. Probably Unity & Gnome 3 made the alt-tab change to match their move to the Dock model?

Whatever the reason, they're wrong for us power users. And possibly for intermediate & beginners users as well.
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I don't think the intent of marking up things like height and weight is dubious - isn't that the whole point of the semantic web? That you use semantic markup to explicitly define your information content?
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> Apple has a license from Xerox.

I know they do. This little fact is interesting, but my argument was general. Because Apple still customized the hell out of the interface -- if anything, the fact that they did have a license and didn't really need to do any of the customization (except to reduce costs) only reinforces my point.
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I would hesitate to use the term "dangerous failure modes." The danger generally stems from interference with key avionics during critical phases of flight. For example, if your ILS starts acting wacky right in the middle of an approach in actual IMC, you've got a problem. Likewise, if your radios become unusable due to noise anywhere in the terminal area, you've got a problem. Generally, this sort of thing is caught during the EMC SOFT, which is conducted on deck so that there is no immediate danger. Once the interference has been discovered it's basically a debugging process to figure out what the hell is going in (where is the interference originating, and how is it causing the observed effect). The plane doesn't fly again until it can pass an EMC SOFT.

Usually dangerous interference comes through hard-wired connections: a device that feeds back frequencies into the power system, which then disrupts other devices; or a device that puts noise on an avionics bus, disrupting communications on that bus.

However, sometimes a device, even a device not designed to transmit, can create significant RF interference. For example, a device that has an internal power supply or transformer of some sort. If that power supply is not working right, it might generate an oscillating signal. Maybe even the device itself is tolerant of a certain amount of oscillation in its power and so is not affected by this. Then, there just happens to be a wire inside the device, connected to the power supply that's just the right length to act as an antenna at that frequency, and now you've got an RF transmitter on your aircraft that you didn't expect or want. There are bazzillions of wires in most medium-to-large modern aircraft, and some of them are bound to be the right length to act as an antenna and receive that signal, passing interference into who-knows-what.

That example may sound highly unlikely, but it does happen.
> even I as the driven, I often find myself checking my emails while driving

Why would you ever do that? If you don't care about your safety, at least make sure you're less likely to kill others, please...
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You have a good point. However, knowing that electronic devices cannot be used, many fliers (including myself) bring their own alternative such as magazines, books, etc.

I have never seen a stewardess calling somebody's attention for reading a book. On the other hand, they'll quickly force you to stop using almost anything that has an on/off switch.
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The latter is funny to me, because claiming the removal of paint makes a work "irreparably damaged" just sounds like insurance fraud to me.
I am currently working my way through some geometric algebra (as well as algebraic geometry and topology) texts and building a [programming] library incorporating what I read to reinforce my mathematical intuition. I completely agree about how awesome Geometric Algebra is. In fact its emphasis of tying algebra with geometry makes it much more useful than for just teaching geometry. It makes a wonderful foundation for mathematical intuition. For self study I particularly like such subjects because they take a whole bunch of stuff and put them under one roof.

Grassmann's story is semi-tragic. He was a school teacher who created a powerful algebra of space where you could compute with not just points and vectors but with lines, planes, surfaces and other vector subspaces without being hampered by a particular coordinate system. Geometric Algebra can subsume complex numbers, quaternions and plane geometry - projections, rotations etc and easily extend them to higher surfaces. Matrices play less a role here. Hestens also puts forward that Geometric Calculus can contain matrix calculus, linear algebra, lie algebra and groups and Differential forms, see [1]. But because Grassmann was so ahead of his time and did himself no favours by writing a dense, super long text with lots of philosophy interwoven not many bothered to read or could understand it. Later, Clifford came and made extensions, cleaned it up and the subject gets named after him as Clifford Algebras, though not by his choice. But Clifford died early so the more geometrically unwieldy Vector Analysis won out. A setback for physics?...Angular momentum makes so much more sense as a bivector. From [2]:

Fearnley-Sander writes in [27]:-

All mathematicians stand, as Newton said he did, on the shoulders of giants, but few have come closer than Hermann Grassmann to creating, single-handedly, a new subject.

To read more about Grassmann I recommend: A History of Vector Anaylsis by Michael Crowe, well written, I couldn't put it down.

[1] http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/DIF_FORM.pdf

[2] http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Grassmann.htm...
I've actually always wondered this, so I might as well ask you.

When I first came across them I was sure it was a joke or a fraud, but people seem serious about seeing some kind of art in them.

So what is it? As best as I can tell it seems to be a form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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I've spoken to both of my principals and my ICT teacher about introducing a solid computer science course and scraping "ICT". As a student and a avid programmer, I find it horrible that we don't get a chance to truly leverage the power of computers.

The reason I don't think CS is being widely adopted is because many students have been conditioned to accept ICT as a good computer course and have no clue as to what you can achieve with proper training and a computer. My classmates aren't interested in CS because they think it's way to difficult and has no tangible effect on society. On top of that, both of my previous ICT teachers had no clue how to program: those days were spent editing movies and making animations in Flash.

Glad to see the powers that be finally take some initiative to solve this problem...
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> We say, "nice work, you must have tried really hard!" and she replies, a little confused at us, "no".

Yeah, in my case that was confusing up until it became insulting, probably somewhere around 7 or 8. Into the teens and adulthood, it might end up encouraging someone to reducing their efforts until they just squeak by, depends on the personality. I'd focus more on figuring out what she actually finds hard or easy, boring or interesting.

Positive reinforcement isn't bad, per se, but that particular statement acts like everything should be hard, which can be just as damaging, albeit in different ways, than acting like everything is easy.

(By the way, if you haven't already, read up on Asperger's syndrome now. A lot of gifted kids have it and go undiagnosed into adulthood. Some end up fine, some end up junkies, almost all have a very confused adolescence and even more confused parents. If your daughter shows any signs, now is the time to start paying attention and trying to compensate. Notably, it can totally screw with how reward works. A lot of us place essentially no value on verbal praise, we require tangible rewards.)
So, your reasoning is that censorship (or "changes to say different things just to a certain public") is not really it if it gets done in many but not all the issues?
So, say, if in a country some search terms are blocked you can not talk about censorship because not ALL the searches are blocked.
Sorry, I disagree. Even if they change only the cover of a single issues, and they do it to block some ideas to be said in the USA, well that is censorship and is unacceptable.
I had my current job by sending an email to a company while being drunk, finally i'm very happy with this job, do things while being drunk and you will not regret it ;)
A "search engine" is an obvious idea.

Do you remember when Yahoo was just a page with links on it? Or the time before crawlers? How about when the default was OR queries instead of AND? The fun of having to search twice if your query contained the word "color," spelt with and without the letter U?

I'm sorry, but you just can't gloss over the above - which is a pretty meagre list at best - and say "that's obvious." If we always stuck with version 1, no innovation would take place.
This reminds me very much of the Carol Dweck's theory on the Fixed and Growth Mindset[1].

I too, was raised on a Fixed Mindset; "You're not good at math/physics/chemistry? That's ok, I'm sure you have other skills.". This caused me some level of discomfort in trying new things (which are necessary for any sort of growth) because at some point I could just reach 'the end of the road' and the limit of 'talent'. This has often caused me to avoid new and challenging things altogether.

Since a year or so I've been trying to adapt the Growth Mindset by interrupting my thought process when I feel this discomfort and (often literally) say to myself that it is not the outcome that matters, but the chance to improve your skills and extend your abilities. Failure is not about you and it should just be a trigger to try harder; the road does not end. I still fall in the same traps I used to, but I've said Yes to more (challenging) things this year than any other year and I haven't 'failed' nearly as much as I thought I would, nor did the failures have the impact I feared them to have. Growth really is a marvelous (and endless) thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(book)
Just personal experience here, and you're not me so I'm sure itdoesn't apply and please feel free to ignore it, but I did this and it was great for a while. Then shit shows up and I start drinking to cope with problems I should've been facing head-on instead. At the end I had to give it up entirely. Nothing major broken in my case, thank God, but relying on the sauce to write your emails or get you on a plane reminds me of a reflex I wish I hadn't developed.
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You do remember that a Samsung lawyer could not tell the difference between a Tab and ad iPad in a court, right?
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People take alchohol when they want to relax.
Some people just can't let themself go without alchohol.

I can. I just relax at will. Of course, the right context helps.
Perhaps the most interesting part, to me, was the goal of making geometric algebra operations computationally efficient. While I'm still reading (and enjoying) the original paper, I must confess an inability to see how it's more efficient than a standard vector representation. Would you have any pointers on that?
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I would probably just go with Python or something. Teach them variables, for loops, if statements, printing stuff to the screen, stuff like that.

That way they get a good notion of what programming actually is.

I'm only now getting into functional programming. I would not have grokked it very well when I was like 12 years old.
It is important, but I prefer Eben Moglen's analogy:

"Software is what the 21st century is made of. What steel was to the economy of the 20th century, what steel was to the power of the 20th century, what steel was to the politics of the 20th century, software is now. It is the crucial building block, the component out of which everything else is made, and, when I speak of everything else, I mean of course freedom, as well as tyranny, as well as business as usual, as well as spying on everybody for free all the time."

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fos...
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Not sure about currently, but the (old) lead developer of FireBug left to join the Chrome team earlier this year[1]

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20080338-264/firefox-world...
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Using LOGO in Primary School was far better.
The odd thing about Solidcoin is that I'm fairly sure that its centralization doesn't actually provide the claimed security benefits.

For those not familiar with Solidcoin, it has two alternating types of blocks. The odd-numbered blocks are mined through a computationally-expensive process similar to that in Bitcoin, though the Solidcoin one doesn't run as well on GPUs. The even blocks are created either by someone with more than a million Solidcoins (which no-one has) or by a node its creator controls that has a special 1.2-million-coin account.

The claim is that this prevents an attacker with 51% of the compute power rewriting history and spending the same coins twice because they can't create the modified even blocks required. The trouble is that I can't see anything stopping them. The even blocks are approved by including a special transaction showing ownership of over a million coins, but there's nothing tying that transaction to the contents of that block, or the previous block, or anything except the previous transaction using that account. An attacker should just be able to copy the block-approving transactions from the original even blocks to their malicious replacements.

Basically, its creator failed to grasp that if you want to validate something using a digital signature (the one proving ownership of the million coins) you need to make sure modifying that something invalidates the signature. Most of the Bitcoin clones have turned out to be inferior to Bitcoin in some way, actually.

(There's some subtle issues around timestamps that'd make this attack a bit harder but I'm not intending to provide a howto guide here.)