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Sony Smartwatch 2 (SW2) review
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Back in 2012 I played with the Sony MN2 smart watch. It was an abysmal failure IMHO. It was so bad it could not tell time if it lost contact with the phone. It couldn't last a day. And looked like a cheap piece of plastic. I hated it so much I returned it to the Sony store from whence it had come … Thank goodness for return policies (and the forethought I had to check the return policy before buying it).
Fast forward to now (actually it was announced Jun 2013) and we have the latest generation of it. Sony has made a number of updates to the firmware to address some early concerns about the SW2. Before jumping in I read a number of reviews about this one and it level set my expectations.
From a competition point of view I like the looks of the new Samsung Galaxy Neo, a huge step forward from the first gen but Samsung totally redesigned the Gear 2 such that any app written for the Gear 1 needs to be rewritten for the Gear 2. So the number of apps is low. It's also more expensive. And the heart rate monitor built into it is useless (you need to be standing still for it to work). It's also less customizable. Charging requires a docking cable. So all in all I decided against this one.
I like the Pebble but it looks like crap unless you buy the Pebble steel which is a ton of cash. It's also more focussed on notifications, which for me a is a secondary purpose (for my use).
I found this one website with a list of a number of smart watches and it allows you to compare them for features!
And so I bought the Sony. I have to say, I had a hard time not dismissing this one after the horrible taste the MN2 left in my mouth. Brand recognition and loyalty is difficult to earn and so easily to loose. I remember when Sony was considered something I personally sought after. After a number of bad Sony products the brand for me is in the toilet. But in the end I decided to try it.
Physically the device is a bit on the large side. I have a small wrist and while it fits it is large enough to cause issues with dress shirt sleeves. It looks pretty good IMHO. It comes with a rubber wrist band that is not all that bad looking either. And Sony made a great decision to use a standard 24mm watch band so you can switch it up with anything you want. There is only one button on the side of the watch and that is used to brighten the screen, and power it on and off. On the front of the watch are three soft buttons, home, back and options kinda like Android. These are not backlit for some bizarre reason so hard to find in the dark. Dumb. And there's no vibrate when pushed either. The options key is inconsistently used even within Sony apps, so is largely irrelevant although from time to time it does something. On the last side of the watch is a micro USB port for charging the watch. A positively brilliant choice and I applaud Sony for this choice. They include a pigtail USB cable that you can plug into your computer or buy a USB charger. So all in all fantastic. No need to carry around some custom cable or docking station to charge it!
From the first Sony watch I was familiar with the setup process and how the apps make their way to the watch. You load two apps on your phone Smart Connect and SmartWatch 2 from the PlayStore onto any android device that meets the specs (check to be sure yours is new enough). They use bluetooth to connect (not Bluetooth 4 or Smart) so it's pretty compatible with most devices. You can use NFC to link them up or simply pair it like you would any other Bluetooth device. Once that's done your Watch is initially setup. I am shocked how good connect/disconnect works. I have come to expect hokey results out of bluetooth connections. Not this one, they got it almost perfect. I had a few times where the watch would not connect to the phone. I had to power off the watch. I had once where I had to totally unpair and repair the watch.
First and foremost I want this thing to be a watch. Sony got the clock right. From the device even without the Bluetooth connected (once setup) you can set an alarm, change the date and time, use it as a count down or count up timer, change the watch face all with out the phone.
Also on the device out of the box is a calculator as well as an understanding of Endomondo and Runtastic fitness apps. These apps like all apps run primarily on the phone and use the phone's sensors and relay data back to the app on the watch. When the app on the watch first starts or when it is brought back up or after the clock has timed out the watch app connects to the phone app and displays whatever data onto the watch (from the phone). If an app on the watch is dependent on the phone and the phone is disconnected, the app icon on the watch is greyed out, showing it's unavailable.
Starting up Endomondo or Runtastic on the watch starts it on the phone and can easily be started and stopped on the watch as well as display some of the stats. Endomondo only worked if I manually started it on the phone then the watch. A shame because I prefer it over Runtastic. Runtastic displays duration/distance/calories, Pac/avg pace/duration and Current speed/distance/avg speed on screens you swipe through. The screen dims and goes back to the watch after a timeout. I could not find a way to keep the screen on to allow you to use it for constant tracking. I did find a great app called GPS Watch that will display Speed, distance, and direction. It can even stay on, but beware this can really drain the battery on the watch quickly. You could use it like a bike computer etc. But if you interrupt it you will loose the distance travelled.
Endomondo displayed distance/time, speed, and heart rate again on screens you swipe through. Again I saw no way to keep the app on the screen. Runtastic seemed to be more solid and smoother than Endomondo. I can only hope this improves.
Once initial setup is done you can then choose what else you want to install from the Smart Connect app. Each app, each notification type are separate installs all of which go to the phone, download it from the PlayStore and then load it onto the watch. A little clumsy and time consuming, and clutter up your phone but I like the flexibility of being able to decide what I do and don't want. And changing phones has become a little more time consuming. Something I do often.
Clock faces out of the box are very basic and there is no weather app by default. There are lots of additional clock faces that can be purchased from the Android PlayStore from the phone. These work a little oddly. Sony have allowed you to create your own custom watch faces to supplement what you get from them. These can be self designed from clocks/widgets available. When you install apps that have custom clock faces they show up as new clocks/widgets that you can use to design your own. I love the flexibility and customization this allows but I have to say it took me a bit of time to figure out what it was doing. And settings for a particular watch face or widget are done in the app on the phone so you have to figure out which app is adding which watch face/widget. A little confusing.
You can have a total of 12 different watch faces defined. All of which can be selectable from the watch or the phone. Out of the box they seem to all be black and white. There are some third party ones that add color but I find it odd that they do not allow more flexibility in designing your own watch faces with color. Every now and then I would find a custom watch face I designed resulted in a blank screen on the watch. I had a couple of times where the only way to resolve it was a reboot of the watch. Odd. Fortunately reboots are pretty quick. Other times I would have a custom watchface completely drop an element in it and I had to go back in and edit it and add the widget or watch face back in.
The screen has a number of power modes. First off when the watch detects absolutely no movement such as sleep it turns the screen completely off. To save power the refresh rate on the screen in dimmed mode is low and the screen is black and white, the watch does not display a second hand. If the watch detects movement of the watch it raises the backlighting on the screen to halfway. And finally if you turn the screen on by pressing the button it's then on max brightness and max color. Once the screen wakes up there were a few watch faces that included a second hand.
Bluetooth can be turned on and off on the watch itself allowing you to save power, oddly there is no way to set sleep times that would allow you to save power by turning the bluetooth on the watch off while you sleep. I also had difficulty finding a setting on the phone that kept the watch silent while I slept. In the end I opted to turn bluetooth on the phone off using llama at night to insure I never get woken up by the watch. After that happened a couple of times I was not thrilled.
Watch battery status is displayed on the top of some screens, but not the most easily readable or clear just how much of a charge it left. A bizarre oversight. There is a way to add a battery status icon to a custom watch face if you want to. There isn't even a way from the phone to tell the status of watch. In electric cars they have a phrase called range anxiety. It's about the paranoia of running out of juice while your driving. With this watch, without knowing the status of the battery you will be tempted to charge this up constantly which would become a nuisance.
The screen in direct sunlight is readable but you can see some of the wires under the touch screen in certain circumstances. With back lighting on you can easily see and read the screen, but this is by no means as bright or vivid as the Samsung Gear 2. A trade off for battery life.
The watch defaults back to the time as it should, a nice design touch.
Additional apps can be loaded from the phone for calendar reminder and numerous notifications, as well as Weather, music control, Walkmate, etc
The Music playback app allowed starting of the music as well as a visual display of the song/album and artist being played. You can also visually swipe to the next song as well as control the volume. It all worked perfectly with my stock Samsung music player. The music app stays on the screen so you can always see what's playing, also a nice touch.
All of this was loaded from the Smart connect app individually allowing you to pick and choose what you want but taking a bit to get setup.
Walkmate is a pedometer app that runs on the phone and displays on the watch. A nice app that seems reasonably accurate. This app is a typical example where the functionality is being provided by the phone, the sensor is on the phone and the watch simply displays the data.
Speaking of a Pedometer, this is one of the main functions of these fitness tracking bands like FitBit etc. I found three ways on the watch to do a pedometer (all three the watch is nothing but a second display, the functionality is coming from the phone).
1) Walkmate (mentioned above) from Sony mentioned above. There is an app on the phone that shows your progress, allows you to stop and start. It's ok. It even allows a heart rate monitor but does not display the heart rate anywhere. It only support Ant+ heart rate monitors. It ignored my Bluetooth one.
2) Samsung S.Health which using Remote Widget you can display your current stats
3) Acupedo which has a nice widget that again Remote Widget you can display your current stats
With both Acupedo and Samsung S.Health you can keep the display on making it easy to see how far you've gone.
Another popular watch function is heart rate monitor. I found 3 different ways I could display my heart rate on the watch. Again all functionality being provided by the phone:
1/2) Start and Endomondo activity with Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Classic or Ant+ heart rate monitor and then either start the Endomondo app on the watch, or use Remote Widget to display your current heart rate. If you use remote widget you can keep it always on the watch
3) Lastly use Google my tracks on the phone and Watch my tracks on your watch connected to an Ant+ heart rate monitor. For some reason bluetooth heart rate monitors do not show properly on the Smartwatch.
Sony has a call handler app as well as a missed call notification app (as well as a contact app) but the reality is given the phone does not have a mic or speaker your pulling your phone out (unless your using a handsfree setup) to take or make a call anyway but none the less these are handy as secondary notifications to help you not miss calls.
I was surprised I couldn't find a compass app. Apparently at one time it was on the device and seems to have been removed? I would love to have a heart rate monitor app. And maybe even an alarm so if I walked away from my phone it would remind me. And I would love to see the ability to have screen of data you could scroll through rather than limit it to one watchface. One can hope.
There's even a find my phone app that rings the phone assuming it's in bluetooth range of the watch. A third party app can be used from the phone to find the watch too.
One of the things that doesn't seem to work right is you are suppose to be able to double tap to wake the screen. There is a detection of your wrist rotating that it wakes the screen to some in between state, backlight half on if I was to guess. But this seemed a little hard to get reliably to work.
The screen is readable in most situations. Add in the back light and I never found a case where it couldn't be read. There were lots of complaints about the grainyness of the display. I didn't find that. It's certainly not the brightest or crispest but it is a watch after all. I would say for me the screen is good enough. It's also waterproof so you don't need to worry about getting caught in the rain. There's lots of blogs out there that dunked their watch in water, I won't be rushing to do that as it's money out of my pocket.
There is no owner info you can add to the watch in the case you should you loose the device.
Overall the watch itself is fairly comfortable. I did notice it got a bit sweaty under the watch and rubber band but nothing too aweful.
On day 1 of heavy use the battery was sitting at 63% meaning just less than 3 days. So I recharged it and did what would be more normal use. It was at to 75% on the start of day two, 54% on day 3 and 26% on day 4 so 3-4 days would seem possible but 4 would really be pushing it. And it first starts to warn of low battery at 15%, then again at 10% and at 5% it powers off. Sony claim 3-4 days so it seems about right. Turn off bluetooth and the battery life according to Sony goes up to 7 days using it as a stand alone watch. It charged from 21% to 100% in just under an hour with both a high current charger and even a lower current BlackBerry charger which I think is terrific.
All in all I have to say I am impressed. Now my expectation level was set quite low to start. I was listening to one reviewer from TWIT and one of the things he said was notifications on a watch are virtually useless. Your unlikely to read an email/text on the watch and even if you did you need the phone to reply so in the end having notifications on the watch do nothing more than add to the amount of time it takes to handle a message and I agree. The one thing I can say though is notifications on the watch are a good secondary notification. But that said, the gmail notification app does not include support for the priority inbox so you are being notified for lots of stuff you likely don't care about.
Sony have made some terrific progress from the first gen. Couple that with my realistic expectations and I find myself happy with the watch. It does what I wanted it to. Albeit a little expensively, but still. I look forward to seeing more and more apps and watch faces being released for the watch! And I enjoy having customizable watch faces.
In summary here are the list of apps I use on the watch:
Built in apps: stop watch, count down timer, alarm, flashlight, calculator (very occasionally)
Apps I added:
calender Month display, as well as calender smart extension to see your next events
Music control app
Call handling app to see and vibrate on incoming calls
Missed call notification
SMS (text message) notification
Gmail notification
Weather app
Find your phone from your watch, and Find your watch from your phone
Google Maps turn by turn directions on your watch
I found this VERY cool app called Remote widget that can take any widget you can normally display on the phone and display it on the watch. And it supports both always on as well as low power modes. It also supports multiple pages of widgets. Tap the widget on the watch and it starts on the phone. Slide the widget and move to the next widget. Wow. Impressive. Shows what can be done!
I also found Watchit which can take any notification from any app and display it on the watch! It also acts as a message aggregator. With this app you can get around the fact the Sony Google mail app does not support the priority inbox! Be patient it takes a bit of settings on the phone to get this working.
I found this website that reviews apps for wearables. XDA developers also has a forum for the Sony Smartwatch that I found useful.
I found the way to move the watch between two devices. Load all the required apps on both devices. Then to move from one phone to the next simply reset the smartwacth. This will put it in pairing mode. You can now pair it with the other phone and everything will move off to the new phone. While not exactly zippy it is smooth enough,
By the way when you do your search for apps that support the Sony Smartwatch in the Google Play Store, be sure and search for SW2 as well as Sony Smart Watch, otherwise you will miss some. And remember some apps are written only for the original Sony Smart Watch MN2.
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Welcome to thePortus! For my inaugural post, I thought I would share general thoughts on a question my students asked last semester: are programming languages anything like human languages?
Although the people have long recognized that human and programming languages share a number of characteristics, the extent to which this is true, and its full ramifications, have only just begun to be plumbed by scholars.
Humans have human languages with which we communicate. These are fractured and split, and so not all humans can communicate with one another. Machines have their internal language of expressing commands (machine code). Finally, there are the means of bridging these two incompatible means of expression: programming languages.
How are they (or math) language? You might have heard that math is the universal language. This is more than a platitude, mathematicians, linguists, and philosophers have found that mathematics contains a full range of semantic expression. Thus, computation, even on the level of machine code, is still language in some form.
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As for programming languages, the connection is much more clear. Someone with a training in formal logic would find that programming simply seems like a much more robust manner of logical expression. Formal logic ultimately traces its root back to Aristotelian logic, which was certainly expressed in a thoroughly linguistic manner.
You can break down programming code into a series of statements, which can be parsed just like a sentence. In fact, parsing is a common term in programming, referring to any process whereby you break a larger bit of information into discrete chunks that can be analyzed, (for example, a compiler parses a computer program into understandable machine code, a program parses the credit card number you entered into a series of discrete digits…
Though human and computer brains have very different styles of parsing, the fact remains that this is still the most fundamental system for both to interpret information. Take a look below at how we parse sentences traditionally, and how a computer attempts to break it down into semantic meaning. The first is a traditional grammar exercise of parsing and diagramming a sentence. The second is an illustration of how sentence parsing is similar to binary expression. The last image is from the Python module, the Natural Language Processing Toolkit
Let's parse a bit of code here. Take a look at a bit of my own code. What you see is a part of a short function (we'll talk about that another day). This bit here is receiving a variable ($rowvalue), which represents a row in a 2 dimensional array (similar in effect to row in a spreadsheet). This bit is instructs the machine to receive this row variable and to break it up into individual cells. In fact, as it goes through each cell (foreach) it creates two variables, $cellkey, which represents the column name under which the cell would be found on a spreadsheet, and $cellvalue, which represents the actual value found in the cell.
Then, cell by cell and line by line, this function takes whatever array you send to it and spits it out as a .csv file (here is more code to this elsewhere).
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1| foreach($rowvalue as $cellkey=>$cellvalue){ 2| if($firstvalue==true){ 3| fwrite($writefile,$cellvalue);$firstvalue=false; 4| } 5| else{ 6| fwrite($writefile,';' . $cellvalue); 7| } 8| }
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This is just a smattering, programming languages are so thoroughly flexible. Even within one language, the range of ways that one programmer might express commands (thus, the way they accomplish getting their 'point' across to the computer) can vary as widely as human writers. Some programmers are short and concise, others are verbose complex. Some are elegant, others are sloppy. There are many different ways to do things, and what in one situation calls for supremely minimalistic efficiency, in another demands a complex approach. As a programmer becomes more familiar with a language, they find their own style as distinctive as any author.
As much variation as you see between programmers within a language, the amount of variation between programming languages is enormous. These languages both give space and freedom to enable programmers to do things easily that would not normally be possible, but also limit them in other ways. And, just like real languages, there is no single solution. There is no simple 'advancing' in computer programming languages until we get the perfect one.
While things have gotten better, different languages are good at doing different things. And most often, it is precisely what makes a language good at one task that makes it bad at another. Think of the difference between the often cutting efficiency of Latin as an efficient means of expression against the enormous range of semantic meaning due to the large vocabulary available to the Greek speaker, enabling them a very different kind of powerful expression.
In programming, sometimes you want a language that gives you the power and flexibility to do the same thing a dozen different ways (PERL), and sometimes you want a language with Spartan like efficiency (Python): if there is but one way to skin a cat, you don't need many words, make it easier to write faster, and to write less.
To give you a sense of how seriously they take this, here are a few select quotes from the Zen of Python, which reflects the aesthetic principles of the language.
Zen of Python
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity
Sounds a lot like Latin to me! By the way, these principles apply both to how the language expresses itself to a computer, but also how it expresses itself to a person. This can be from matters as crucial as grammar and syntax, to what seem like cosmetic differences. For example, in MySQL, as noted before, whitespace (meaning what you get when you hit the space key) is insignificant. In Python, it is not, spaces, indentation all matter critically. But this cosmetic difference affects its functionality. By using spaces alone you can express the relationship of various statements to another, much like adding clauses on to a sentence. This allows coders to write code that is easier for other humans to read. This makes it so that one coder can write on one side of the planet and cooperate others on the other side of the globe.
The chart above shows the differences in major design principles behind a number of current languages, as well as how they relate to one another through their adherence to stylistic principles. These design guidelines affect the approaches in the deep grammar of these languages, and drastically affect how programmers write their code. Many coders end up having strong opinions on different language, often on the basis of their tastes viz. design principles.
Languages have developed over the years, and forked in almost exactly the same manner as human languages. There are branches and sub-branches, families and even superfamilies of languages. One can more easily move from C++ to javaScript than to PERL just as one can more easily move from Latin to Italian than to Japanese. These dialectical differences are very real, and the deep grammatical assumptions of mother languages often very much control the grammatical possibilities of their descendants, no matter how different they look on the surface (think of Indo-European).
Above are three images, the first represents the evolution of the earliest computers, from the earliest ancestor of modern computers ENIAC, to about the 1970's. Much of this represents an era before full programming languages, forcing programmers to use punch cards to enter commands mathematically. The second is the family free of Indo-European Languages. The third represents a chart of the lifespans and timelines of the most major modern programming languages. As you can see, the chart is huge, and that only represents a tiny fraction of the linguistic diversity of the programming world.
There are languages that have become the mother languages of the majority of written code out there, and there are languages that were developed between a group of friends. There are even languages that were developed for the sole purpose of acting as an interpreter between two other languages, allowing programs to utilize more than one language at a time. Some languages are not used very much on their own, but primarily in conjunction with another language, because they act as the sort of lingua franca, allowing a highly specialized language to talk to scripts from others. In the same way that English (and other languages, thus the franca) allows speakers of hundreds of different languages to all access each other through a common middle ground. Just like human languages, the 'common tongue' in vogue at any one time has changed too.
Internally, machines have 'machine code', by which they operate on a very deep level. Machine code sets the states of every bit (short for binary digit). This bit can be set to one of two states (thus the bi- in binary), most often represented as 0's and 1's. These are the most fundamental unit of computer memory storage and the source of all the calculation power of modern computing. This is too abstract and complex for any human to process in anything even close to real-time. So, those scenes in the Matrix are kind of bunk… and no one is shocked.
For now, all computers run on this binary system, by shrinking individual components so that we can simply jam more circuits per square inch on every board and chip. The famous theoretical physicist Richard Feynman posited that this was one of the most central issues facing the future of computing, and that at a certain point, the rapid developments in processor speeds would slow down, eventually reaching an upper limit that would halt further technological development….
… which is why he suggested the concept of a quantum computer. At long last, it seems that researchers are closing in on making this a reality. They currently have demonstrated that the concept works, but it is far from being workable. Instead of just 2 states of a circuit (on or off), the qubit (or qbit) utilizes uses different states of electrons (32 for quantum computing), in order to make calculations that are… well… exponentially faster doesn't even cut it. Calculations are made off of electrons that, according to Quantum theory, both are and are not at exactly the same. This same principle underlies the Quantum Multiverse theory, that differing probabilistic outcomes of these electron states are the fundamental differences which separate the different 'dimensions' (used loosely here) of the multiverse. Thus, using mathematics, a bit of know-how, and of course, magic, quantum computers rely on calculations involving other worlds! Don't hit format c:\ (!)
But in order to translate the complex and infinitely flexible desires of a user into a series of machines have programming, which allows them to do two things.
- (A) Communicate with human beings.
- (B) Communicate with other computers.
Thus, we enter into somewhat of a linguistic relationship with machines (namely, by programming). That relationships is more two-way than you might think. Programmers find that they not only tend to think about programming in terms of the range of possibilities offered by the languages that they know, but this can bleed into their approaches to everyday life. Wittgenstein long ago noted that language both gives us the range with which to think while also setting limits on precisely the range for thought.
Just as the individual characteristics of human languages offer different opportunities and limitations, so do programming languages. Thus, the range of that relationship is determined by several factors.
- First, the programmer's fluency is one or more languages with which to communicate with the machine.
- Second, the ability of a language to be able to express syntactically, semantically, and on a very deep level, grammatically, what it is the programmer wishes to code.
- Third, the ability of a compiler or script reader to successfully parse and interpret those human commands and to translate them into machine code.
- Fourth, the ability of all the other pieces of hardware in receiving further instructions.
As one machine (your CPU) receives input from another, much more basic machine (your keyboard, which is not a computer but is a machine), and then in turn displays the results of that input on a third machine, your monitor, very likely through an installed graphics card. This is technically another computer which receives calculation instructions from the CPU and runs the intensive mathematical calculations required for graphic displays (especially 3D), relieving the main CPU of the burden.
So, these 'languages' need to interpret a large semantic range expressed through grammatical relationships that are nearly infinitely flexible that can at the same time be turned into what are hugely complex patterns of binary states.
Is it so strange, after all? Think of the terminology involved in coding. First off, there is code, coding, and encoding. You might first tend to think of the meaning secret. However, this actually harkens back to the original meaning of the word, from the Latin for codex. The codex was what you would today consider a book (as opposed to a papyrus scroll). Though they were around for most of antiquity, they were not really popular until the later Roman Empire.
Think of the other words involved, parsing, syntax, …. all linguistic terms as well, and not by accident. Perhaps the most ubiquitous word in computing, the program, is simply from taken from the sense meaning 'writing' from the Greek word programmata.1|2. We should remember that the basis for computers and mathematical knowledge is logic, from that oh-so-flexible word logos. Which is Greek for… well… word (and so many oh so many other things).
Should it really weird us out so much? After all, our brains are gigantic calculation machines. As it currently stands, no matter how impressive we think computers are (and they are), all of the data storage on all of the hard drives in the entire world does not enough information to store the data from a cubic centimeter of the human neural network.
Our brains are very much machines, constantly running millions of calculations per second that so that we can successfully walk and talk (or not, if you are me). In such a process innumerable calculations are made in the Primary Motor Cortex, about the balance and placement of the body with little conscious thought, as one section of the brain receives and interprets signals and sends them out to the nervous system for the peripheral hardware to execute (i.e. the limbs).
At the same time a different CPU on the motherboard, the Prefrontal Cortex (home of much of your conscious thought) can decide that it wishes to eat a meal, and so sends a signal to the PMC to turn around and head to the kitchen. At the same time, the PFC only decided to go the kitchen after receiving instructions from the PMC that one's blood sugar was low.
All of these is dependent upon these different CPUs being able to both run calculations internally, and have systems to communicate vast amounts of information among one another. In addition, both use a base level of communication (the brain stem) which, like the BiOS is employed to send direct commands to the 'dumb' peripherals (legs, hands, eyes… or monitors, keyboards, and speakers).
So, despite the all too common trope that machines are the antithesis of humanity, the digital world and the human mind are intimately connected. From programming languages to the mechanical operations of the machines themselves, we should not be surprised to find the machines reflect their human makers.


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5 star shoot tim the clouds and the vortex damm what a shot
Majestic! I can't even imagine being there. However, you've inspired me to get to AMS one day Tim! Fantastic work, 5*. -Ron
Tim, I'm not a big airliner fan but you could change that. Awesome! Jim
I love the rainbow effect in the vapour.
So many cool lighting and atmospheric effects! Also note the plane's shadow on the clouds... amazing.
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Shots like this makes inspired me to be a photographer ! Wonderfull rainbow vaporing ! 5 stars ! Ilias
Magic Moment!
Yes we all love AMS. Indeed a magical shot!
One more - but just great and fresh again! Fyodor.
Wow Tim, AWESOME!
Unique, one of a kind, the beauty, perfect exposure and composition and finally the drama.
Thanks for sharing, another perfect shot Tim....
Tim, I only wish I could take a shot with this much atmosphere! Awesome.
-Matthew Wallman
-Matthew Wallman
The mix of colours is amazing and to get the vortexes and wake turbulence all in one shot. How do you do it?
Very cool
Excelent shot, good for any pilot classroom. You captured vortexes and lift power on the top of the wing!!! Incredibly usefull...Bravo
Tim the "Photographing" dutchman hands up brilliant snaps as usual! =) Regards/
Just... wow!
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What is the destiny of a threatened fish, Ptychobarbus chungtienensis, now that non-native weatherfishes have been intro
The degree of dietary overlap between the species is alarming and perhaps critical if food is found to be a limiting factor.
Wan-Sheng JIANG1, Tao QIN1,2, Wei-Ying WANG3, Ya-Peng ZHAO1, Shu-Sen SHU1,2, Wei-Hong SONG4, Xiao-Yong CHEN1,2,*, Jun-Xing YANG1,*
1 State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Yunnan 650223, China
2 Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar
3 POWERCHINA Kunming Engineering Corporation Limited, Kunming Yunnan 650051, China
4 Management Division of Yunnan Bitahai Nature Reserve, Shangri-La Yunnan 674400, China
PubYear : 2016
Volume : 37 (5)
Publication Name : Zoological Research
Page number : 275-280
Biological invasion is a pervasive negative force of global change, especially in its effects on sensitive freshwater ecosystems. Even protected areas are usually not immune. Ptychobarbus chungtienensis is a threatened freshwater fish now almost confined to Bita Lake, in the Shangri-La region of Yunnan province, China. Its existence is threatened by the introduction of non-native weatherfishes (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and Paramisgurnus dabryanus) by an unusual method known as 'prayer animal release'. Periodic surveys revealed the ratio of invasive weatherfishes to P. chungtienensis has been increasing since the former species was first recorded from the lake in August, 2009. Ptychobarbus chungtienensis shows low genetic diversity in the relict Lake Bita population. Weatherfishes, however, have highly successful survival strategies. The degree of dietary overlap between the species is alarming and perhaps critical if food is found to be a limiting factor.
Keywords: Biological invasion; Threatened fish; Prayer animal release; Genetic diversity; Dietary


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I wrote this as a pitch for a different blog site but decided to post it here. I hope it makes someone laugh :)
Yesterday, after reading my third list in a row, but before doing anything even marginally important, it dawned on me that I have been entirely ignoring any and all online articles that aren't in list form. I asked myself "why?" To which I answered myself – wouldn't you know it? – with a list. Lucky for you I am a licensed scribe, or "scrivener,"* because me talks fast! Submitted for your approval is a list of five reasons, the only five reasons, humans are 67% more likely to read an article in list form. The aforementioned statistic was reached by arbitrarily choosing a convincing, but not too convincing percentage.
1) Attention Defisomething...
Let's face it, the attention span of the average American is shorter than Mini-Me would have been had Dr. Evil been portrayed by Hervé Villechaize (Mike Meyers, 5' 8" - Vern Troyer, 2' 8" - Hervé Villechaize, 3' 11" - Fictitious Mini-Me to Hervé's Dr. Evil, a Gummy Bear). Our brains have been conditioned to reject anything with a time investment any longer than it takes to microwave a Pop Tart. Mmmmmm Pop Tarts. My favorite is the S'mores one. So good, right?
Where was I? Ah yes, lists have a calming effect on our impatient minds because we are told from the very start exactly how many points we must endure before we can commence wasting time some other way. For my wife it's Candy Crush Saga. What the what is it with that stinkin' game? It's like Tetris, right? But like with candy, and crushing... and saga... Personally I'd rather watch my nose hairs grow, and that would be pretty ridiculous because I'd have to use like two mirrors, like those one's dentists have, and where would I even get them?
2) Structure
Homo sapiens sapiens (yes, there really are two freakin' 'sapiens' - I don't know, ask a scientist) crave structure from the very depths of our tarry black souls. Even if we appear to loathe it on the surface, deep, deep down inside every sloppy, flip-flop-wearing earth-dweller there skulks, like an intangible, less schizophrenic, much less attractive Gollum, the desire for order - Structure is our Precious - Lists provide that structure. When the exact same information could be presented, and subsequently ignored, without the bullet points or numbers, lists get the job done right. Kind of like the A-Team. No, exactly like the A-Team.
So, what you're telling me is that I'm like some glorious chimera with the street smarts and dazzling good looks of Faceman, the tactical and strategic brilliance of Hannibal, the brute force and bling-consciousness of B.A. and the.... eccentricity and piloting skills of Murdock? I'll take it! And I'll be driving that sweet van too. You know that's right, foo.
3) Something About How Sexy Numbers Are
Some numbers are sexier than others, and others are less sexy than some. For instance pi is much sexier than a million, but nowhere near as sexy as a sextillion (sex is in the name, for Einstein's sake!).
4) Believability
When someone just writes an article telling me to do this or that to improve something or some other thing about my life or whatever, I try to find that guy and punch him in his smug, butterface (am I using that term correctly? I don't think I am) for trying to tell me how to live my life, when he clearly doesn't even know enough about our species to understand that we need to have our friggin' information spoon fed into our hearing hole thingies in list form, dagnabbit! But when that same dude structures (see point 2) that same information into a list and adds some humor he might as well have a bunch of letters after his name and smell like I imagine Jennifer Lawrence smells (ice cream, she smells like ice cream) because he's got me eating out of his hand, as if his hand were filled with creamy, delicious ice cream. A list says, "Hey, follow me and everything will be alright, and to prove it... I'm a list!"
Lists imply that someone, somewhere has followed the same steps and has been successful, or that some substantial time and effort has been invested into research (whatever that is) to show that, for instance, there are exactly five reasons why people are more likely to read an article if it is in list form. In reality, though, most lists are ascribed arbitrary numbers and then someone tries to think of that many things and sometimes they can't but they just go with that number anyway because it's sexy (see point 3), so they half-donkey it and make the reader think of a point him/herself. That's why you see so many 10's, 5's, and 3's.
Personally, I feel bad for the numbers 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9, because when do you ever see a list of 4 reasons to shave your best friend's armpits or 9 habits to avoid while shoplifting at Walmart? But really, there's one number that's the most miserable of all numbers. The unsexiest number in every way. It's the true loneliest number. Not number 1, silly. That's just a song. Do you believe everything songwriters say? No, it's the number 66. It's not quite evil enough for the devil-worshipers and it's just a bit too evil for everyone else. No one and I mean no one likes the number 66. That whole section should probably have been moved to point 3, but copying and pasting is hard. Which brings us to...
5) A Fifth Thing
This point is for introspection. It's not because I couldn't think of a believable fifth thing. Scout's honor*. Look within, friend, and you will find the truth about the fifth point. Whatever reason you had for reading this article, ya know, the one I didn't cover in points one through four, that is the fifth point.
*I am required by law to inform you that I am not, nor have I ever been a scout of any kind.
There you have it, folks - a list of five reasons you are reading this list of reasons about why you are reading this list of... By the beard of Zeus, that's a brain-meltingly confusing shtick! Now you can go play fat-making, cavity-inducing Tetris.
Note from the author - please do not confuse my meanings in a couple of places. I recognize that some of the content may seem to have a meaning I did not intend. These are:
1) The Jennifer Lawrence reference was not meant in a lustful tone. I wondered who might smell like ice cream for this bit, so I Googled and waded through probably over 100 pictures of celebrities eating ice cream before settling on Katniss. Other top contenders: Justin Bieber, president Obama, and the beautiful Jack Black. Jennifer is just sloppy enough of an eater than I figured she would be a safe choice.
2) The sexiness of numbers. Obviously I am not sexually attracted to numbers, so I don't know why anyone would have a problem here, but for the sake of those who do, compare numbers to cars and other inanimate objects that are regularly described as "sexy." See, no problem!
This article first appeared at the view from here but was deemed too different and exiled to the Fringe!
This article first appeared at the view from here but was deemed too different and exiled to the Fringe!


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Twelve students recently represented GOTAFE at this year's World Skills in Sydney. The National competition that saw over 500 competitors battle it out in 60 trades and skills areas was topped off with an award ceremony that recognised the best of the best.
GOTAFE students Mark Williams and Hannah Wilson were among those presented with medals.
Mark, who recently had is Apprenticeship signed off 16 months early, is employed at Mick Hogan Excavations in Numurkah. Mark was awarded the Bronze medal for Heavy Vehicle Mechanics, positioning him as the best apprentice in Victoria and 3rd overall in Australia.
Hannah of Bright Eyes, Shepparton took home the Bronze medal for Hairdressing, an amazing achievement for a 2nd year Apprentice.
GOTAFE trainers and support staff, along with a number of the competitor's family, friends and employers made the trek to Sydney for the biannual event.
The entire GOTAFE Team performed exceptionally well.
Full list of medal results - https://www.skillsshow.org.au/full-medal-results-worldskills-australia-national-championships-2018/
Full selection of medal images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldskills_au
Highlights video from WorldSkills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtmbUFe66gc


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From the Difference Between "long long" and "long int": Portability and Suggestions
The keyword long is just a type modifier which indicate the length of the real type integer, the portability and good practices about the difference is given.
Suggestions first: long in C++ and portability
I better give the suggestions first followed by concrete supporting maters.
- long is not a type, but just a type modifier just like short/signed/unsigned, think about it, integer is the type, can you image a type called long? no! There is only type of integer, and the long modifier indicate the length of bytes used in memory for integer.
- for portability we need to choose int32_t or similar type declarations, which is fixed size, the size of other type specifier like long would vary on different platforms. It is only because usually, we do not depend on the actually size, and the common platform support 4 bytes int, we do not care about it too much, only those who need to make the code really portable on quite many different platforms need to be concerned about it.
- The size of C++ integer types is implementation specific
- The business logic cannot assume and depend on the size of int say to be a particular size say 4
- If you are not concerned about the memory at all, I suggest make the type as big as possible to use long long for the integers.
long is just a modifier: "long long" vs "long int"
There are several shorthands for built-in types.
shortis (
short int
longis (
long int
long longis (
long long int.
On many systems,
short is 16-bit,
long is 32-bit and
long long is 64-bit. However, keep in mind that the standard only requires
sizeof(char) == 1
sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long) <= sizeof(long long)
And a consequence of this is that on an exotic system,
sizeof(long long) == 1 is possible.
What Intel says about "long"
The following is from Intel: "size of long integer type on different architecture and OS"
The size of a "long" integer varies between architectures and operating systems.
The Intel Compiler is compatible and inter-operable with Microsoft* Visual C++ on Windows* and with gcc* on Linux* and Mac OS X*. Consequently, the sizes of fundamental types are the same as for these compilers. The size of a long integer in particular depends on the operating system and the targeted architecture as follows:
OS arch size
Windows IA-32 4 bytes
Windows Intel 64 4 bytes
Windows IA-64 4 bytes
Linux IA-32 4 bytes
Linux Intel 64 8 bytes
Linux IA-64 8 bytes
Mac OS X IA-32 4 bytes
Mac OS X Intel 64 8 bytes
Consequently, when some programs that use "long" are ported from IA-32 Linux to Intel 64 Linux, or from Intel 64 Windows to Intel 64 Linux, the behavior might change. (Note that the size of pointers is expected to change between IA-32 and Intel 64).
On Windows, the size is 8 bytes by default. On Linux or Mac OS X, 10 bytes are used for the representation of a long double, although the allocated size may be larger (12 bytes on IA-32 Linux; 16 bytes elsewhere).
Suggestion: If it is important to you for integer types to have the same size on all Intel platforms, then consider replacing "long" by either "int" or "long long". The size of the "int" integer type is 4 bytes and the size of the "long long" integer type is 8 bytes for all the above combinations of operating system and architecture.
The keyword long is just a type modifier which indicate the length of the real type integer, the portability and good practices about the difference is given.


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So... as I'm completely skint these days (after leaving the family home, getting married and having to look after myself), I've decided to try and be a bit more choosy about makeup products.
I sometimes wonder if high price really means high quality in the cosmetic industry. Or is it a bit like jeans - all made in the same factory with different labels put on them?
After a phase of spending big on products, I've decided to go proper "budget", because I literally will not be able to do anything enjoyable if I spend all my money on makeup.
One of my staple makeup bag products is an eye shadow base coat in a white or ivory colour. I ran out of my No 17 one (which I didn't think was that good) so I put out a request on twitter for some suggestions. Someone recommended Urban Decay shadows, but honestly, I cannot afford £14 for an eyeshadow. That's like 14 loaves of bread lol
So I called into Superdrug. Not looking at the brand names, I was just looking for a nice ivory shadow with a touch of shimmer. I came across the MUA and Accessorize concessions. They both had decent looking Ivory shadows. The MUA one was £1! And the Accessorize shadow was about £2.99 or something ridulously cheap. I bought both - why not for that price?
The first one I tried was the MUA shadow. It's quite metallicy, so I would guess I'd prefer to wear this one in the evening. It probably wasn't subtle enough for me for day time. Although it did make a nice colour to layer browns etc. on top.
With a base coat, I normally cover my whole eye completely from lash to my eyebrow. This way, you've kind of added a highlighter to your brow (if it has some shimmer).
Throughout the day, I did realise that the shadow had creased, so not really ideal, but I was still happy enough with it for the price.
I hadn't expected to like the colour of the Accessorize shadow as much. It looked to have a gold tinge to it, but in fact it was more subtle and less metallic than the MUA shadow. This is more what I was looking for. It made my eye look quite smooth and evened out before applying some browns to create a smokey eye. I was quite surprised, as it blended really well with my eye shadows.
In contrast to the MUA shadow, there were no problems with creasing or wearing off. I'm quite happy with the Accessorize shadow. I will still use the MUA Shadow. Admittedly I have never used an expensive eyeshadow, so I can't compare them at all for you. I'm happy to use the budget version and be oblivious to what's out there on the higher end of the market. If I tried an expensive one, I'd probably like it too much :)
Have you tried any of these products? Are you a fan of more expensive eyeshadows? I 'd love to know the difference :)


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Combustion chamber or combustor is one of the hottest parts of a gas turbine. Liner is where the actual flame occurs in a combustor and thus, the hottest part of the combustor. The temperature of working fluid inside a liner is about 1200 to 2000K. Because of the hot fluid, the liner is heated up to a temperature almost impossible for the material to withstand. Although the mechanical stresses experienced by the combustor liner are within acceptable limits, high temperatures and large temperature gradients affect the structural integrity of its components, which makes the liner a very critical component of a gas turbine in structural and thermal designs. Film cooling is a traditional method of cooling the inner surface of liner. In film cooling for a combustor, axial holes are drilled along the surface of the liner at discrete locations, through which cold air is injected axially into the liner to provide a film of cool air that prevents direct contact of hot air, and thus, protects the inner wall surface. The film is destroyed in the downstream to the flow because of mixing of cool and hot air. Though this method provides an acceptable cooling, there is a compromise with the increased net benefits of the gas turbine. Therefore, there is a need for new cooling techniques or enhancing the techniques available. The current work is a numerical simulation of film cooling in a model combustor. The effect of coolant injection angles and blowing ratios on film cooling effectiveness is studied. One innovative method, cooling with mist injection, is explored to enhance the performance of film cooling. The effect of droplet size and mist concentration, which can affect the performance of the mist injection, is also analyzed. Fluent, a commercial CFD software, is used in the current work for numerical simulations.
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GAGGLES of excited children took part in a twokilometre fun run yesterday in Coventry.
The event, in Allesley village, was organised by the Northbrook Athletics Club and preceded a 10 km road race for the adults.
While the kids' fun run was raising money to refurbish the 54th Coventry (Allesley) Scout Group hut, in Washbrook Lane, allesley, the adult race was this year raising funds for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance.
Race HQ was at the Coventry Hill Hotel, and the kids set off from the scout hut on Washbrook Lane for their run around undulating, rural, traffic free roads.
Race director Tony French said the conditions were perfect for the run, and added: "This is the sixth year we have held the event, and we have got about 400 entries. We had 385 last year."
Leamington runner Emma Litterick, aged 39, of Cubbington Road, was taking part in the fun run with her two children Molly, aged seven and Sebastian, aged four.
She said: "I think it's just brilliant that they are incorporating more children's races into things like this, especially with everyone saying how unhealthy children are these days.
"I do a lot of running and Sebastian and Molly have been around it a lot.
"The kids just love it and the more they get involved the better."
Molly said: "I'm a better runner than my brother but my mum is a really good runner."
The seven-year-old said she planned to run the route with her pal Tom Warne, also seven.
All of the children completing the run received a medal and a water bottle, while senior finishers received a T-shirt.


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1. "A call-girl with yesterday eyes was our witness and priest"
2. "Cos we're twenty twenty twenty two, waiting for the rain to stop"
3. "Go put David on, read about the war"
4. "Black cat wrapped in a road map to hell"
5. "Tourist info said I'd have a good time/I'm not having a good time"
6. "Wir sind die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo"
7. "You've been losing weight in all the wrong places"
8. "The victories that you've had/Won't make up for the values you lack"
9. "What would you say if I asked you to make funny faces in the mirror of the night?"
10. "No more romantic comedies!"
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Sammy Hagar Remembers Ronnie Montrose's Ego Trip
Sammy Hagar, whom ex-Van Halen bassist and current Chickenfoot bandmate Michael Anthony called "the most upbeat, positive guy in the world," told a packed room at Toronto's Canadian Music Week that guitarist Ronnie Montrose was the first time the Red Rocker ever encountered the typical rock 'n' roll ego.
Hagar sang for the eponymous band Montrose from 1973 to 1975, and wrote lyrics for songs like 'Bad Motor Scooter' and 'Rock Candy.' "When I got in Montrose, we were on a rocket ship," Hagar told the room of CMW delegates. "Ronnie was famous. He had sold a million records, had a number one album, and had a royalty check. When I walked into his house to meet him for the first time, he had a royalty check he had just got for like 8,000 bucks. This was like 1972. And was going, 'Wow.' This guy was rich and famous and everything that I wanted to be."
"I was so naïve, I didn't even know what an ego was yet," said Hagar, now 63.
As Hagar outlines on page 59 of his autobiography, 'Red,' "in Europe, Ronnie wouldn't talk to me." The singer recalls a particular piece of press Montrose received in Belgium that was accompanied by a picture of Hagar. "It was in Dutch, but it was a positive review about me, what a great front man, a new star, and all that bullshit. That was it for Ronnie."
"And so I was just all googie and giggly and stuff in that band," Hagar said. "I'm just the happiest guy in the world, just go out, you know what, just give me some food, let me get out on that stage, and Ronnie had an ego and I didn't know. Every time I'd open up, he would get all intimidated by me. 'What are you trying to take over the band?' I'm like, 'No. I just had this great idea. How about we do this?'"
A week after the tour ended, Hagar writes that Montrose decided to keep the band together but get a new singer.
"It was the first time I ran across someone that was opposing and it was weird," Hagar continued. "I still find it weird when people oppose other people, their ideas, if it's a good idea. Art is all about that. A band is all about everybody putting in a great idea. Chickenfoot, we haven't had a problem yet."