Comment Code Rocket (Score 1) 532
Check out Code Rocket - this is what it's for.
For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism 256
mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."
Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment Re:Consciencousness, whatever (Score 1) 210
One lack of attention to detail begets others... :)
Comment Consciencousness, whatever (Score 1) 210
Oh, Lord - the Unternet still pays no attention to the rules of spelling. If you guys had to have your thoughts compiled, you'd never run.
Is that consciousness or conscientiousness?
Comment Change management (Score 1) 1306
OK, here's a kite -
if you choose the management route of advancement, then somewhere between level 4 and level 5 you will be taught about "Change Theory" (you will be taught this by those who have taken the psychologist route of advancement, though they learn it at level 2).
This is not about evolutionary change, but about how humans view change in general. There are two very simple conclusions that the psychologists present as their starting point (the training is on how to overcome the obstacles presented by their starting points!). They are:
1) Humans view any change similarly - it really doesn't matter what's changing;
2) In every population, for any change, the population will be spilt into 20% leaders of change, 30% supporters of change, 30% supporters of the status quo, and 20% luddite resistors of change (the really odd thing is that the same people are in the same groups, regardless of what the change is).
Now, the kite is - are the anti-Darwinists simply the 20% that are so agin change that they simply cannot believe in a world that changes?
if you choose the management route of advancement, then somewhere between level 4 and level 5 you will be taught about "Change Theory" (you will be taught this by those who have taken the psychologist route of advancement, though they learn it at level 2).
This is not about evolutionary change, but about how humans view change in general. There are two very simple conclusions that the psychologists present as their starting point (the training is on how to overcome the obstacles presented by their starting points!). They are:
1) Humans view any change similarly - it really doesn't matter what's changing;
2) In every population, for any change, the population will be spilt into 20% leaders of change, 30% supporters of change, 30% supporters of the status quo, and 20% luddite resistors of change (the really odd thing is that the same people are in the same groups, regardless of what the change is).
Now, the kite is - are the anti-Darwinists simply the 20% that are so agin change that they simply cannot believe in a world that changes?
Comment Re:Gee, maybe JUNK DNA is a dumb idea (Score 1) 215
Surely the most adaptable creature (genome) is one that is "programmed" (has evolved) to be able to adapt rapidly when circumstances require it? We assume that DNA codes for a static equilibrium - "this is how your children will be", however, a really well evolved species would have the built in ability to adapt when things got tough. The "code" that did this would appear meaningless in the context of static equilibrium.
Of course, for that to have been an evolutionary advantage, our ancestors would have had to have lived through many long periods where circumstances changed. :)
Of course, for that to have been an evolutionary advantage, our ancestors would have had to have lived through many long periods where circumstances changed.
