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Given his major influence on:

C
Java
Common Lisp
Scheme

And, as a throwaway on his Oracle bio page:

He designed the original EMACS command set and was the first person to port TeX.

Given his major influence on:

C
Java
Common Lisp
Scheme

And, as a throwaway on his Oracle bio page:

He designed the original EMACS command set and was the first person to port TeX.

Given his major influence on:

C
Java
Common Lisp
Scheme

And, as a throwaway on his Oracle bio page:

He designed the original EMACS command set and was the first person to port TeX.

The Sword and the Shield was written in 2000 and covered a lot of the information about the Mitrokhin archive. It is 700 pages and is an interesting read. The actual archive is probably only of interest to the serious student that can read and understand Russian and really loves cold war history.

There's a handful of offline GPS packages for PC, Delorme has one, Garmin used to have one but they still have two nav apps for iOS and Android that have offline map support (one exclusively, one with caching.)

Streets and Trips will still work until the roads are too different from it to be useful any more, or you can't get it to run on some version of Windows any more. But it will become steadily less useful. I've bought S&T before, and it was outdated when I got it.

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There's also the possibility it's there to help Russian companies (and the economy).

Facebook wants to operate in Russia? Well then they need to open up a Russian server farm and put all the Russian data in there, or pay massive arbitrary fines, or get blocked. Lots of Russian companies probably use Amazon's EC2, now Amazon either needs to put up a region located in Russia or those Russian companies need to use a Russian cloud company.

It's the same fundamental reason why Putin has been working so hard to keep Ukraine away from the EU. Russian companies suck and can't compete against the west, if cheap high quality EU goods can flow into Russia then the current Russian industry won't be able to compete. Similarly if high quality tech companies can serve Russians then the Russian tech companies can't compete. Solution? Screw with Ukraine to try and keep the EU physical goods out, and pass data laws to keep foreign websites out.

People chose bacon over low cholesterol... get over it.

A big part of the problem why Americans (and others) are fatter and fatter are because of misbeliefs foisted upon them.

Fatty foods don't cause heart disease. Sugar, stress, and smoking do. A high cholesterol count does not cause heart disease. It is a *symptom*, not a cause. It is your body attempting to repair the damage.
  Avoiding fats is a very good way to fatten yourself up. You'll instead be ingesting sugar and other carbohydrates, and you'll quickly feel hungry again. The sugar in your bloodstream requires the release of insulin to process it. The insulin tells the fat cells to open up and start sucking up all that sugar.

Reading tip: Why zebras don't get ulcers. It explains really good how all this works, and what bad food and stress does to your body.

You forget about two things though! First is alcohol - although in a sense that can be counted as sugar as well. But not really! It should be mentioned along with the others: Alcohol! Second is cancer! Too much food, smoking and alcohol cause cancer. Stress does not cause cancer, but it has a very big negative impact on it once you get it.

My wife just pointed me at the Thermomix, which is popular among her German friends:

http://www.amazon.com/Vorwerk-...

It can weigh things, grind grains, and chop, as well as all the other kenwoody-things. It's a bit more expensive, though, and probably not induction.

Set top box, described here:

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-TV-...

Given that he raises the spectre of salmonella from uneven temperature in sous-vide cooking, it's pretty clear he knows fuck all about cooking. Hey Nathan? Sous vide is done in a precision-controlled water bath, you numpty. Not an oven.

From the article:

Domestic ovens tend to swing in temperature and can be off by as much as 5 percent at any point during cooking. At 205 C—a temperature at which you might cook a turkey—that 5 percent isn’t a big deal. But consider a style of cooking known as sous vide, in which you cook food in bags in a water bath at low temperatures such as 60 C, near the threshold at which bacteria can survive. Here, 5 percent can be the difference between safe and unsafe.

He raises the spectre of salmonella from uneven temperature to point out why ovens can't do the low and slow temps in sous vide cooking. And I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he knows significantly more than fuck all about cooking.

You can still go cheap without going free. The prices at Amazon seem very reasonable. I'm sure their competitors are just as reasonable. You got burned because you picked a horrible vendor to provide you services.

> its distinguishing strengths are few and aesthetic

Aesthetics matter.
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-...

(I think this, and many other things, should be paid for by the person themselves...)

That's kind of the crux of the matter, isn't it? A month of generic birth control pills costs about $10/mo. Purchased in bulk, condoms are about $0.50/ea. Both are readily available at no cost from a variety of sources for those who can't afford them. Setting aside the heated political debate, it seems foolish to route these sorts of purchases through your insurance company, with inevitable overhead, rather than simply purchasing them yourself.

Of course, low information voters on both sides eat this shit up. It's red meat for the bases of both political parties.

I've been using this wonderful device for controlling drip irrigation:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

I used something kind of like that for about two weeks, until one day I came home to find that the mechanism had spontaneously exploded* sometime hours before, and my garden had turned into a small swamp-like biome.

Now I just mulch properly and water in the morning/evening like I used to; the mulch makes all the difference in the world.

* Caveat, the model was one of those super-cheap ones from Harbor Freight, so I should have expected catastrophic failure.

I've been using this wonderful device for controlling drip irrigation:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

The user interface is brain-dead simple. The dial simply has 17 settings, for
1: Daily for 2 minutes
2: Daily for 5 minutes
3: Daily for 10 minutes ...
7: Every other day for 5 minutes
8: Every other day for 10 minutes ...
12: Every third day for 10 minutes
13: Every third day for 15 minutes

That's it! There isn't an option for "2 minutes every 3 days" because -- guess what -- gardeners don't actually need that level of control! It just has a laser focus on a simple user interface that will be good for 99% of residential customers.

Would my life be better if I had to change the batteries in the irrigation controller every 5 days to power its wifi? Or if I had to run mains power and Ethernet cabling out into the garden for it? Would my life be better if I had a fiddly iPhone/Android app with more settings pages than I'd care to use, maybe a cloud-based controller like my Nest? Do I ever go on holiday and wish I'd changed the watering schedule before departing?

NO.

Not so oddly enough, they do make them.

http://www.amazon.com/PortaPow...

Or this one.

I can't seem to find the exact date of introduction anywhere; but the PR shots are all taken with a 30-pin iDevice that doesn't look like a 4, lacking the distinctive 'holding it wrong' antenna-edge, so it can't be terribly new. I don't think you get the fancy NFC tag; but it's $8 and preassembled...

Then get any kind except for Apple earbuds. I have a pair of JVC HAFX1X that are inexpensive, comfortable, sound great and have lasted for years with daily use.

Let me linkify those links.:
Let me tell you what everyone else thinks are real headphones.

Shure SE-846: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H8YOI04/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00H8YOI04&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=I73QKZFGWTCRE4T6

Quad-driver, built in sub woofer, nano-welding, cost: $999.99

Westone W50, 5 driver headphone, $750: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRPVO90/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00JRPVO90&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=4YPWGVNX5U4D6NHO

Westone also makes a triple, quad, and six driver model. I personally have the $500 dollar Westone 4R which has been replaced by the W40 for $499: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GB2YASO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00GB2YASO&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=EZFV75JAAFGFNRXU

Apple is trying to innovate something they haven't innovated on. They aren't designers or manufactures of real headphones. They make cheap shit.

How can headphones be truly innovated on though? By creating sound in 3D fashion, and perhaps by stimulating the nerves of the ear directly using microwaves rather than by using soundwaves to do it. There are actually numerous patents to use microwaves to stimulate the brain and nerves directly, bypassing the cochlea and ears, dating back decades but only the military took interest because of their desire to weaponize it. A few of those patents are here: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html#patents

A goal for improving sound quality is to record soundwaves more accurately and then reproduce them more accurately without loss. Right now soundwaves are recorded and replicated from a single space in time, perhaps in a stereo fashion with two points, one for each ear. But sound waves are more dynamic and the trajectory and complexity is not currently recorded or replicated. Surround sound is done in a virtual way, instead of stimulating each nerve independently like in real life as the wave travels through, allowing you to hear multiple points of sound traveling from multiple areas at once. We want to record sound from thousands of points per ear and replicate the sound from thousands of points to truly playback sound as it was meant to be heard.

I doubt Apple will be the innovator here because they take cheap shit and put their name on it, never actually developing anything new.

Let me linkify those links.:
Let me tell you what everyone else thinks are real headphones.

Shure SE-846: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H8YOI04/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00H8YOI04&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=I73QKZFGWTCRE4T6

Quad-driver, built in sub woofer, nano-welding, cost: $999.99

Westone W50, 5 driver headphone, $750: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRPVO90/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00JRPVO90&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=4YPWGVNX5U4D6NHO

Westone also makes a triple, quad, and six driver model. I personally have the $500 dollar Westone 4R which has been replaced by the W40 for $499: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GB2YASO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00GB2YASO&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=EZFV75JAAFGFNRXU

Apple is trying to innovate something they haven't innovated on. They aren't designers or manufactures of real headphones. They make cheap shit.

How can headphones be truly innovated on though? By creating sound in 3D fashion, and perhaps by stimulating the nerves of the ear directly using microwaves rather than by using soundwaves to do it. There are actually numerous patents to use microwaves to stimulate the brain and nerves directly, bypassing the cochlea and ears, dating back decades but only the military took interest because of their desire to weaponize it. A few of those patents are here: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html#patents

A goal for improving sound quality is to record soundwaves more accurately and then reproduce them more accurately without loss. Right now soundwaves are recorded and replicated from a single space in time, perhaps in a stereo fashion with two points, one for each ear. But sound waves are more dynamic and the trajectory and complexity is not currently recorded or replicated. Surround sound is done in a virtual way, instead of stimulating each nerve independently like in real life as the wave travels through, allowing you to hear multiple points of sound traveling from multiple areas at once. We want to record sound from thousands of points per ear and replicate the sound from thousands of points to truly playback sound as it was meant to be heard.

I doubt Apple will be the innovator here because they take cheap shit and put their name on it, never actually developing anything new.

Let me linkify those links.:
Let me tell you what everyone else thinks are real headphones.

Shure SE-846: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H8YOI04/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00H8YOI04&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=I73QKZFGWTCRE4T6

Quad-driver, built in sub woofer, nano-welding, cost: $999.99

Westone W50, 5 driver headphone, $750: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JRPVO90/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00JRPVO90&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=4YPWGVNX5U4D6NHO

Westone also makes a triple, quad, and six driver model. I personally have the $500 dollar Westone 4R which has been replaced by the W40 for $499: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GB2YASO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00GB2YASO&linkCode=as2&tag=obamaswecom-20&linkId=EZFV75JAAFGFNRXU

Apple is trying to innovate something they haven't innovated on. They aren't designers or manufactures of real headphones. They make cheap shit.

How can headphones be truly innovated on though? By creating sound in 3D fashion, and perhaps by stimulating the nerves of the ear directly using microwaves rather than by using soundwaves to do it. There are actually numerous patents to use microwaves to stimulate the brain and nerves directly, bypassing the cochlea and ears, dating back decades but only the military took interest because of their desire to weaponize it. A few of those patents are here: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html#patents

A goal for improving sound quality is to record soundwaves more accurately and then reproduce them more accurately without loss. Right now soundwaves are recorded and replicated from a single space in time, perhaps in a stereo fashion with two points, one for each ear. But sound waves are more dynamic and the trajectory and complexity is not currently recorded or replicated. Surround sound is done in a virtual way, instead of stimulating each nerve independently like in real life as the wave travels through, allowing you to hear multiple points of sound traveling from multiple areas at once. We want to record sound from thousands of points per ear and replicate the sound from thousands of points to truly playback sound as it was meant to be heard.

I doubt Apple will be the innovator here because they take cheap shit and put their name on it, never actually developing anything new.

That's why they included the process of constitutional amendment.

More likely they were guided by Natural Philosophy's aversion to claims of absolute truth.

the day of putting rabbit ears on the TV are largely over

Those days never existed except for those lucky enough to live within a few miles of the transmitters. These people can still use rabbit ears and pull in quality signals. A friend of mine uses the non-amplified version of this, aimed at an inside wall of his house in the direction of the transmitters, and he pulls in the same channels I do. I'm 15 miles out, with a row of trees in the way, so I had to go to one of these, mounted on my back porch, which fortuitously happens to face the transmitters. Growing up I lived about 70 miles out, as the crow flies, and we had to use something like this, on a mast, with in-line amplifiers, and an antenna rotor.

Regarding 8VSB, current receivers can handle multi-path just fine. You're also overlooking the fact that multi-path was an issue with NTSC as well, leading to ghost images. Digital either works or it doesn't, invest in a quality receiver and proper antenna design (rabbit ears don't count) and you're very likely to end up in the "works" category.

the day of putting rabbit ears on the TV are largely over

Those days never existed except for those lucky enough to live within a few miles of the transmitters. These people can still use rabbit ears and pull in quality signals. A friend of mine uses the non-amplified version of this, aimed at an inside wall of his house in the direction of the transmitters, and he pulls in the same channels I do. I'm 15 miles out, with a row of trees in the way, so I had to go to one of these, mounted on my back porch, which fortuitously happens to face the transmitters. Growing up I lived about 70 miles out, as the crow flies, and we had to use something like this, on a mast, with in-line amplifiers, and an antenna rotor.

Regarding 8VSB, current receivers can handle multi-path just fine. You're also overlooking the fact that multi-path was an issue with NTSC as well, leading to ghost images. Digital either works or it doesn't, invest in a quality receiver and proper antenna design (rabbit ears don't count) and you're very likely to end up in the "works" category.

Ever thumb through the series of books like "What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know" by now-retired E. D. Hirsch, Jr. to see if your kids were missing anything "big"? With schools in NYC and Chicago rolling out K-12 CS programs starting next Fall, has anyone seen a grade-by-grade proposed syllabus or checklist along these lines showing what's going to be covered at each grade level?. BTW, Hirsch unsurprisingly supports giving Common Core the old college try, although he conceded, "Not even most prescient among us can know whether the Common Core standards will end in triumph or tragedy."

Here: Amazon

...oh, and don't be a goddamned criminal.

Easier said than done.

IQ tests were for finding children who would have problems later on in school. And by finding them, extra attention could be given to them so that they were likely to be successful.

Years later, the US Army (wrongly) turned it into a measuring stick.

A wonderful book is The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould.

Anyway, having a high IQ is just the luck of the sperm draw. What folks should be proud of is the character that they develop - like being humble when one is lucky enough to have had the genes to be intelectually talented.

Except you can't get it any more.

Almost true, but not quite. Amazon has eight left in stock (and there are several on eBay at about the same price. The price hasn't come down any since release, but it's still a good device.

Frontier Elite 2, for instance. Ken Musgrave literally wrote the book on procedural generation and is the brains behind MojoWorld, a procedural world generator that's great fun. If you liked Bryce back in the day, MojoWorld is Bryce on steroids.

Not knocking these guys at all, btw, it looks great. Just giving some background.

You'd basically be arguing then that it is impossible to legally do this over the internet or in fact to store anything for a user that they have a right to on the net. It's not like anyone allocates a unique physical machine anymore. Everything is virtualized and of course they have multiple users using the same switches and the packets are traveling over shared fiber and wire... Aereo transcoded every customer's stream separately though I imagine the same hardware handled the transcoding of all those streams. If you say that isn't legal though then what about Amazon Web Services ( http://aws.amazon.com/elastict... )? They are a cloud solution that is used for transcoding in the same way.

Heaven forbid the big 3 Luddite networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC go out of business, so people have to keep paying ridiculous fees for garbage channels?

You do realize all three of those "Luddite" networks, along with FOX, the WB, the CW, etc., make their programming available for free to anyone willing to put up an antenna, right? If you want to argue in favor of cutting the cord you shouldn't be cheering on a company that was essentially freeloading off this ecosystem. The law already has mechanisms in place for companies that wish to retransmit OTA signals for profit. Cable companies have been doing it for decades and paying for the privilege of doing so. They tried to do it for free. Congress said no, clear back in the 1970s. Something you would have known if you had read the ruling before you posted.

Take heart, there's nothing stopping you from putting up an antenna. The investment in time and money will vary from "ridiculously easy" (rabbit ears) to "royal pain in the ass" (massive outdoor antenna with in-line amplifiers), but it's possible throughout the majority of CONUS. My set up cost me <$60, for one of these, a two-way splitter, a box of twist on connectors, and some RG6 I already had lying around the house (irony points: It was left here by a Time Warner tech, thanks for the free cable TWC!)

For that small investment in time and money I've got nine HD channels. For an additional recurring fee (~$15/mo) I have the best DVR ever made, which doubles as a STB that brings Netflix, Amazin, Hulu, etc. to my television, to complement the OTA offerings. The last part is optional of course, but it sure enhances the value of the setup. I've quite literally always got something to watch, because TiVo hunts for things I like 24/7.

Heaven forbid the big 3 Luddite networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC go out of business, so people have to keep paying ridiculous fees for garbage channels?

You do realize all three of those "Luddite" networks, along with FOX, the WB, the CW, etc., make their programming available for free to anyone willing to put up an antenna, right? If you want to argue in favor of cutting the cord you shouldn't be cheering on a company that was essentially freeloading off this ecosystem. The law already has mechanisms in place for companies that wish to retransmit OTA signals for profit. Cable companies have been doing it for decades and paying for the privilege of doing so. They tried to do it for free. Congress said no, clear back in the 1970s. Something you would have known if you had read the ruling before you posted.

Take heart, there's nothing stopping you from putting up an antenna. The investment in time and money will vary from "ridiculously easy" (rabbit ears) to "royal pain in the ass" (massive outdoor antenna with in-line amplifiers), but it's possible throughout the majority of CONUS. My set up cost me <$60, for one of these, a two-way splitter, a box of twist on connectors, and some RG6 I already had lying around the house (irony points: It was left here by a Time Warner tech, thanks for the free cable TWC!)

For that small investment in time and money I've got nine HD channels. For an additional recurring fee (~$15/mo) I have the best DVR ever made, which doubles as a STB that brings Netflix, Amazin, Hulu, etc. to my television, to complement the OTA offerings. The last part is optional of course, but it sure enhances the value of the setup. I've quite literally always got something to watch, because TiVo hunts for things I like 24/7.

Heaven forbid the big 3 Luddite networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC go out of business, so people have to keep paying ridiculous fees for garbage channels?

You do realize all three of those "Luddite" networks, along with FOX, the WB, the CW, etc., make their programming available for free to anyone willing to put up an antenna, right? If you want to argue in favor of cutting the cord you shouldn't be cheering on a company that was essentially freeloading off this ecosystem. The law already has mechanisms in place for companies that wish to retransmit OTA signals for profit. Cable companies have been doing it for decades and paying for the privilege of doing so. They tried to do it for free. Congress said no, clear back in the 1970s. Something you would have known if you had read the ruling before you posted.

Take heart, there's nothing stopping you from putting up an antenna. The investment in time and money will vary from "ridiculously easy" (rabbit ears) to "royal pain in the ass" (massive outdoor antenna with in-line amplifiers), but it's possible throughout the majority of CONUS. My set up cost me <$60, for one of these, a two-way splitter, a box of twist on connectors, and some RG6 I already had lying around the house (irony points: It was left here by a Time Warner tech, thanks for the free cable TWC!)

For that small investment in time and money I've got nine HD channels. For an additional recurring fee (~$15/mo) I have the best DVR ever made, which doubles as a STB that brings Netflix, Amazin, Hulu, etc. to my television, to complement the OTA offerings. The last part is optional of course, but it sure enhances the value of the setup. I've quite literally always got something to watch, because TiVo hunts for things I like 24/7.

and work-sane-hours-and-enjoy-living Europe.

Bonjour Laziness

Here you go!. Under 1lb, so the drones should be able to handle it.

... How the Power of Diversity Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies" http://www.amazon.com/Differen...
"In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities.
    The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup.
    Page changes the way we understand diversity--how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all."

An aspect of that is also that humans are adapted to argue together in small groups and find creative solutions together:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes....
http://lifehacker.com/can-rati...

Of course, then to keep a group of such people motivated, they need autonomy, challenge/mastery, and purpose, like Dan Pink outlines here:
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

And until we get a basic income for all, at least enough money to live a decent life in our society so money is essentially off the table as it has reached the point of diminishing returns for people who like their work:
http://science.slashdot.org/st...

The real problem is not that the government is out of control. The government does not move with a single mind... it is aggregate and it is not after anyone but criminals.

Everyone's a criminal. Federal laws are convoluted, vague, and there's more of them then you can even begin to imagine. A Boston Lawyer wrote a book about how the average American commits three felonies a day. Without even being aware of it.

So, yes, the problem IS that the Government is out of control.

Computational thinking, or to use an older term, procedural literacy, is the idea that people should understand how to think in terms of processes, procedures, etc. Rather than teaching programming, which often (especially at introductory levels) focuses a lot on the mechanics of a programming language's syntax and other idiosyncracies, the idea is to teach people how to even think about the basic idea of a machine that can execute programs.

Many people can't do that: even leaving aside that they don't know C or Java or Lisp, they also don't really understand what an algorithm or a computer program is conceptually, and have absolute no idea what kinds of things can be computed and what kinds can't, or which are easy or harder to compute. They lack the ability to interact meaningfully with non-code representations of computation and algorithms as well, like flow charts or (natural-language) instruction sequences.

Google might do better to just buy a bunch of kids/people copies of the brilliant book:

Bebop Bytes Back: An Unconventional Guide to Computers '.

I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to actually understand exactly what interactions occur in a cpu etc and how they result in what you experience. The book actually makes it fun! At least for people like me. ;)

The gyos add complexity, and dropping a third wheel doesn't save that much space. See Riley's classic http://www.amazon.com/Alternat... or just search for some of his existing designs.

As a previous owner of a Sparrow, I wish these guys luck. Unfortunately, I need a three seater ...my trusty (actual) motorcycle sits idle since I've too often got to worry about hauling two kids these days.

Mathematics is a language. As such, it is created.

The interesting thing about math is that it is a language that reveals underlying isomorophisms, like the one described in TFA. This feature is one of the things that leads to naive people thinking that the math somehow "precedes" the things it describes.

But we see similar isomorphisms in all languages. Consider the "ballad" form of poem. It occurs in incredibly diverse contexts, but the underlying structure is always the same, which means you can sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the theme from "Gilligan's Island". So claiming that "pi" shows up in a variety of contexts doesn't prove anything except that it reflects those parts of the universe we find it interesting as humans to describe.

Furthermore, mathematical descriptions include extraneous bits. Wave equations have both advanced and retarded solutions, for example. If the math truly "preceded" the reality you'd expect that this would never happen, or that there would be some mathematical (rather than empirical) principle that let us get rid of the parts that don't describe reality.

The role of mathematics in biology is an, err, evolving one. The possibility of a law-like mathematical description underlying biological and evolutionary processes is at least worth speculating about: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-...

How? The only "compatible mobile devices" on this list are Kindle Fire tablets and Apple products.

With Digital SLRs, you run out of battery power :)

A couple of batteries and you can shoot thousands of shots. You can also recharge them in the car, or even from a portable solar system. Or plug them into local power, often including laptops and so on. You can also trivially tack on larger battery capacity. I rest my case.

It seems like Amazon equates off-contract with prepaid. Try searching for unlocked phones and the Galaxy S5 ($589) is number 6 on the top sellers. http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sel...

None of the top-100 off-contract smartphones on Amazon.com are more than $250. I'm sure there are off-contract phones that cost $650+, but not a lot of people are buying them on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sel...

What I want is a well-made Android phone that runs CyanogenMod, has an easily-replaced battery and SD card, and works on T-mobile (at least until they get consumed by some shitty company like Verizon).

How about a Galaxy S4? That's what I'm running. I have a Sprint-branded model running on Verizon MVNO prepaid (only carrier around here - sounds like it's different where you live). I got mine from Amazon, as it happens - looks like they have a T-Mobile model too.

Mine's running 4.4.2 CM milestone, fully encrypted. 64GB SanDisk SDHC (make sure you do an aligned format under Linux) w/ Incipio Dual Pro case. Battery pops out on demand. Make sure you get Odin for Windows if you intend to install custom ROM's.

i believe the information is here https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ and yes i realize it's just a 'plan comparison' page, and that only 2 of the 4 tiers include a phone plan

Why is there no mention of Display Port? Current 4K LCD all accept this, and with the right GPU, you can most certainly drive at 60Hz, full resolution.

This is more about HDMI being a broken standard to me. I just don't like DisplayPort because it's sort of Apple's thing.

Nope

Nowadays, low-end Canon DSLRs are getting quite cheap, not that much more expensive than high-end point-and-shoot cameras. Right now the EOS Rebel T3i is going for $550 on Amazon, and I'm sure it could be found cheaper if one shops around. What really breaks the bank with owning an SLR are the lenses, but if one gets a digital SLR, would a further couple of lenses not quickly pay for themselves with the money saved on developing film?