(As a graphic Designer...)
I noticed the difference on both variations immediately, although the green/green variation were very similar.

I was surprised they couldn't decipher the variation in the blue/green scenario.

I don't think they have a "hereditary" colour blindness to blues as suggested above by Boise_Lib but a "learned" blindness as discussed in the study. Because they have a more limited category selection for classifying the differences, their brains meld the grouped colours as the same and their brains simply record them as being the same thing.

A variation of this study would be to develop a category structure which uses more categories than our norm and raise a study group of children using that new structure. The brains of these children would categorize and identify differently and possibly educated their brains to see a wider difference of colours within the spectrum. (Of course this would be next to impossible, as the children would need to be segregated from all of society and only exposed to people who could emulate the new proposed category system - something which may seem as abusive to a child's freedom of being).

Thanks for the promote!

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I thought they sounded German. But this is fantastic. Somehow meld this with Watson's breadth - and we're on the road to strong AI. *promote

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I thought they sounded German. But this is fantastic. Somehow meld this with Watson's breadth - and we're on the road to strong AI. *promote

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I agree with most of your points. I would like to make a small defense of the inability to change things in OS X. With mutability can come a lot of overhead and chaos. There is something to be said for an iron hand on the tiller of user interfaces - but only if you trust the group making decisions.

I am not a UX expert. Up until Lion I trusted the UX people at Apple to have a better idea about how humans can optimally interact with a computer. For the most part, I think they were right. Up until Lion - now I think I'm starting to be sold a crock. The decisions they have made don't seem to be based on making efficient interactions happen - but instead about some grand unified melding of Macs and iOS devices. It's bullshit.

The mandatory click to focus thing is really a taste thing. For me, personally it drives me batty. I don't want focus until I've clicked.

Bouncy in your face icons - agreed, annoying - but not as bad modal windows you have to dismiss.


>> ^srd:

>> ^dag:
Up until Lion I would completely disagree with you and say the UX of OS X is simply the best. Yes, I'm talking against Windows 7, Gnome, KDE et al. Now however, I'm starting to cast a wandering eye back towards Linux.
Windows 7 however, is a frigging awful experience any way you slice it. It's stupid little things like the alt-tab selecting whatever window is in the background when really you just want to cycle through the icons. Also, I can't believe they still haven't killed the dysfunctional bloatware ridden system tray. The retarded nanny-ware labyrinth that has to be navigated to connect to a wireless network makes my eyes bleed.
The way I'm feeling now is that all operating systems suck hard, but OS X sucks a little less, at least until Lion - which, again, is starting to suck much harder for all the reasons outlined in this video - and more.


Gnome, KDE, Windows et al have been scampering after the OSX UX for some years now, and I agreee have been doing it rather badly. And this is a trend I'm very skeptical of. However, if you like the workflow that OSX/Quarz imposes, I'm sure you can be happy with it. Where I take exception is having no choice except for what some people in a meeting in Cupertino decide is how I should do my work.
Things that really put me off:
- Menu bar at the top of the screen instead of attached to the individual application... Sure, thats traditional on apple computers and that made sense back in the days when the Mac didn't have real multitasking. But nowadays it's just terribly confusing and imposes longer mouse travel distances.
- Mandatory click-to-focus, which can be seen as a neccessary corrolary of the previous point. I've been using the focus-follows-mouse model (without raise-on-focus) for 15 years now and the difference is jarring. Imagine having to click away an overlay on each and every page you go to in your browser.
- Bouncy in-your-face animations and notification boxes that are reminiscent of Paperclip. Shut up already and get out of my face, I'm trying to work, not playing a game of whack-an-icon.
- Apple marketing OSX as 64 bit but delivering it in 32 bit mode and not telling you until you a) find out by accident and then b) spend 10 minutes gooling around until you find the command to switch it to 64bit default mode (no GUI level preference here for whatever reason).
I'd be a lot happier if I had a choice. Either by having real preferences that goes beyond what color scheme do I want and in what way do I want to stroke my touchpad to do what. Or open up the possibility for alternative window managers.
For all the "think different" attitude that Apple likes to spread, the OSX ecosystem seems to be hard at work to remove individual preferences. Apple turned into the opposite of what the 1984 commercial implied.
Dag, if you're looking at linux again, both KDE and Gnome (especially Gnome 3) are IMO horrible too. If you don't like them, give XFCE a go. I've been using it since '03 IIRC, when I grew tired of Blackbox. And you'd be in good company too

it had to just stop, otherwise the meld would have dragged along and be cut. But it was great. That has to be the cleanest, most perfect weld I have ever seen.

*promote

Perfect melding of music and dance... I think this is stunning.

Another reason why I think he has schizophrenia rather than bi-polar: he has his kids with the porn stars and him. Even when they party! (Although, I must admit it could be bi-polar as mania can get REALLY bad accompanied by psychotic/hallucinatory type situations and grandeur; and this happened after a binge...)

The porn stars have even said publicly that the children don't belong there. Charlie sounds like he's having some disconnects with reality. Most likely due to drugs (which is why bi-polar is popular, because of it's typical "self-medicating" issues, but this isn't self-medication as that entails that there is a lacking in mood, and Charlie never seems depressed. Plus during the interview he said he was clean for quite sometime; he didn't sound like it.

This all sounds like schizophrenia (if it is bi-polar, I'm guessing it's more drug related than anything else, due to his own words): ranging from psychotic, to normal, to semi-delusional or completely delusional; the drugs would increase the effect and also create more issues if the use is heavy. I personally think he's created this psychotic, semi-delusional state most likely from the "hardcore" drugs (his seven rocks, and self created non-terrestrial based logic). That stuff is like a Vulcan mind meld with a potato if you use it non-stop; it'll force your mind to neurologically connect itself in all sorts of ways it shouldn't. That's assuming there isn't some damage in there (like plaques, causing shifts in personality; that's a determination only the closest to him, or himself, can make).

I like how he sues Warner Brothers for firing him. The other actors on the show should counter-sue him.

Quant, you are a bit off by my opinion (Which is the only one that matters.)

The establishment made welfare. And why would the establishment do such a thing in an era that disliked blacks? (Who welfare primarily supports.) Because, like Jim Crow laws intentions, welfare was created to hurt, not help. Keep people just under poverty, and if they rise just a bit to better themselves, make sure they cannot live on the new paycheck.


>> ^quantumushroom:
The media have been using Charles Manson--the White Guy with the craaazzzyyy eyes---to frighten the sheeple for 40 years now, so there's no need to feel like a victim, even if others tell you it looks good on you (which it does not).
We now have Barack Hussein Dukakis in the Red House in spite of William Horton. At least until 2012. I thought it was a BIG deal in "post-racial" America he got elected at all.
While most American Blacks are middle class, Black males still commit a disproportionate amount of crime for being roughly 7% of the population. Being politically correct instead of accepting unpleasant facts and ignoring intuition can get you killed.
Granny's comments meld perfectly with this discussion. Why care if the federal mafia goes "too far" in shaking down Wall Street (their biggest donor) if the recipients of the loot aren't grateful in the slightest?
>> ^StukaFox:
Two words: Willie Horton.

The media have been using Charles Manson--the White Guy with the craaazzzyyy eyes---to frighten the sheeple for 40 years now, so there's no need to feel like a victim, even if others tell you it looks good on you (which it does not).

We now have Barack Hussein Dukakis in the Red House in spite of William Horton. At least until 2012. I thought it was a BIG deal in "post-racial" America he got elected at all.

While most American Blacks are middle class, Black males still commit a disproportionate amount of crime for being roughly 7% of the population. Being politically correct instead of accepting unpleasant facts and ignoring intuition can get you killed.

Granny's comments meld perfectly with this discussion. Why care if the federal mafia goes "too far" in shaking down Wall Street (their biggest donor) if the recipients of the loot aren't grateful in the slightest?




>> ^StukaFox:

Two words: Willie Horton.

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Good stuff. >> ^geo321:

Such a cool idea. Here's something to meld with the whatever to be called Arthropodology channel...
http://videosift.com/video/GREEN-PORNOS-by-Isabella-Rosselli
ni-If-I-were-an-INSECT

Such a cool idea. Here's something to meld with the whatever to be called Arthropodology channel...
http://videosift.com/video/GREEN-PORNOS-by-Isabella-Rossellini-If-I-were-an-INSECT

"The walk down the hallways, sniffing butts, and meld into the fabric of the school."

fast beat the feet - fast fall the hands (X2)
meld in the music - the music of drums (X2)
choose the fast beat - choose the hard line (X2)

try to show us one better - not sick to the heart - not calling with flesh
suffer little children, suffer little children, suffer little children, written in pain

boys at one - girls at peace (X4)
fast beat the feet - fast fall the hands (X2)
hold onto rhythm - the music of drums (X2)

the pulse is alive - making me sane
let your body learn - let your body build (X2)

suffer little children, suffer little children, suffer little children, the pulse is alive
fast beat the feet - fast fall the hands

boys at one - girls at peace (X4)
freedom from fear - giving release (X2)
giving release - giving your heart
fast beating feet - fast falling hands (X2)

fast beat the feet
fast fall the hands
choose - fast beat the feet (learn)
choose - fast beat the feet (learn)
feel - choose

let your body learn - let your body build (X2)

choose - learn - build - choose - learn - build -
choose - learn - build - choose

>> ^Hybrid:
I completely agree. Event Horizon is one of those films that a lot of people remember being great. But if they were to go back and watch it... it's a total cheese fest with some of the worst dialogue ever written.>> ^dag:
Event Horizon was a horrible, horrible, brainlessly poor excuse for a movie. Flicks like Alien show us that horror and SF can meld well, this was not an example of it.



So, Hybrid, I went back and watched it.

You're totally right.

Dia-what? I remember all the good parts from it, and those are awesome - true, there's a bunch of stupid stuff as well, but I like to think they weren't there.

Good parts: Black hold generator, living ship, hell, Sam Neill, the gore
Bad parts: Dialog, visions, other stuff?

Alien works well, because it's basically just "monster in a closed room"-movie. And it does that fantastically. I have the same feeling with Event Horizon, it does what it does well. Sci-fi horror. I don't care that the dialog is a bit stilted, hell, that's part of the genre. >> ^Hybrid:
I completely agree. Event Horizon is one of those films that a lot of people remember being great. But if they were to go back and watch it... it's a total cheese fest with some of the worst dialogue ever written.>> ^dag:
Event Horizon was a horrible, horrible, brainlessly poor excuse for a movie. Flicks like Alien show us that horror and SF can meld well, this was not an example of it.