From the strength of your opinions I'm guessing you've never seen a paper mill or know that making pulp from trees for use in cardboard creates sulfur dioxide.
'Here is a list of things recycled paper is environmentally better for than virgin paper: less bleaching, less energy, less pollutants, more benign pollutants, less impact on natural resources, less water, less waste to dispose of. The only waste product that is more of a problem with recycled paper is the sludge produced by removing ink and additives. However, this sludge is material that would otherwise be in landfills and it has repeatedly been proven to be non-toxic.'
- From The Society for Natural Resources Conservation, Cornell University
Yeah, I know you're going to come back at me with a quote from Rush Limbaugh or some advertisement you saw on tv... Or dismiss Cornell University as a hippy haven of intellectuals... Whatever.
Dymaxion car was actually w-a-y ahead of its time. It got 30 mpg in 1933.
When you look at only one invention of his, it's easy to tear apart... But when you study the breadth of his work, including his piercing insight in to globalization... I think scientists should be more like Fuller. Overspecialization has made our culture perfect, but very boring.
"We looked at two emotional variables: arousal and valence," said Hutton. "Arousal is the degree of physical excitation -- as measured through skin conductance -- and valence, which is the range of positive or negative feeling."
So this means race car drivers are much more creative than say... artists.
I agree. It seems at some point more body armor, health care, etc. become more appropriate places to spend more money.
Flying remote control drones make perfect sense... but 3d image recognition, fast reflexes... all that is going to take 10 years at least. It's a hell of a lot easier to create a 3d scene than it is to generate one from a camera image.
I know it's not military-grade hardware, but I designed a color sensor for a robot using the AVR-cam. Just to establish an image and track to a certain color was slow and difficult... and this was on a nice white board in a nice room with 4 walls. That's for 100 dollars... but think about instant feedback, unpredictable terrain, interpreting friend and foe...
Not to mention that you could design all this and find it very hackable or easy to disable.
No joke! Scanning msn.com right now the headline is 'is she divorced or just single, why it matters' and the three 'Popular Searches' are Naomi Campbell, Magnum P.I. and Mega Millions.
What gutter demographic are they looking for with this? They should look at their absolute cr#$ tabloid journalism and lack of any substantial news as probable reasons why people choose yahoo over msn/hotmail.
Instead they'll take over a company and wonder why it crashes in to the ground in a few years time.
I think that's exactly it. People want to frame this as 'it's a good deal now that we're in a recession'... as if economics was the only motivational factor behind anyones' existence.
I would imagine Jerry Yang finds himself opposed to many of Microsoft's core operating principles.
Undoubtedly, he will cringe when he types yahoo.com into his browser a few years from now.
Well yeah, in the US and probably most of Europe this is the case... but go walk around marketplaces in countries like Nepal, Armenia, Chile and you will find Autocad, Matlab, Maya, for a couple dollars.
Nevertheless, it's a long stretch to think that this is funding terrorism.
Have the same experience. I bought a new computer for video editing, and made the mistake of getting Vista x64 Ultimate.
My 4 year old Mac is much more stable.... and I have spent literally DAYS trying to iron out all the driver conflicts in Vista.
I have a feeling I am going to buy another mac and make my vista machine in to a linux server.
I think the best teachers in many universities learn to dumb their courses down. Professors that give easy A's have full classes and get great reviews. The one's that push for you to actually put in the hours and don't give out A's are avoided at all costs.
This is true, but in the case of the violin the difference is the form of sound projection. A loudspeaker may be able to generate most of those frequencies, but the sound will not emanate from the loudspeaker in the same way it comes out of a violin.
If you ever go to a cathedral and hear chamber music, you will find it is much different than any CD could replicate... because of the nature of the instruments and the nature of the room it is played in.
It's true. I think vinyl is on the way out for DJs... It's just too cumbersome to carry to a club!
One crate of vinyl fits on a gig flash drive.
Nevertheless, the vinyl album is still a great format. I think one reason people prefer it is actually do to the fact that the sound travels through the phono preamps which warms the sound a bit. This especially helps with 'techno' and 'indie rock/grunge' styles of music where the fact that it was recorded with digital equipment can sometimes be smoothed a bit.
The mastering engineer is paid to make sure all the songs have the same levels and 'flow' from one to the other. You won't notice this if you are shuffling through mp3s... but if you put a good record on you'll notice some thought was put in to the track order.
I guess at this point... I'm just glad Itunes has added the album artwork viewer! Vinyl is a great medium, I just don't have time for it any more.
So true. We believed we had unlimited resources in the 60's... or at least we didn't want to look at the consequences then. I realize there is a great nostalgia for that first televised landing in space, the great potential, ticker-tape parades, all that...
Nevertheless, when oil reaches $200 a barrel, it may be hard enough just taking a man to his job and back... So maybe it's time to find new frontiers a little closer to home.
We have billions of years before the sun gives out, just looking at technological development in the past 80 years it becomes obvious that if we sit back and learn to use resources well... getting off this rock in a few thousand years is easy. Learning to live together on it is hard.
Completely agree.
An Operating System has everything to do with how you use a computer.
I am so happy I was a child with a Commodore VIC-20. I learned so much with that computer.
I happen to love libraries... I think many of them are outdated, but... hey... it's a public space to read, browse the internet, listen to lectures, etc.
Recently our campus library allowed people to bring food and talk on 3 of the 4 levels. It's great... I don't think I could have learned Calculus anywhere else. There simply are too many distractions at the local coffee shop.
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From the strength of your opinions I'm guessing you've never seen a paper mill or know that making pulp from trees for use in cardboard creates sulfur dioxide.
'Here is a list of things recycled paper is environmentally better for than virgin paper: less bleaching, less energy, less pollutants, more benign pollutants, less impact on natural resources, less water, less waste to dispose of. The only waste product that is more of a problem with recycled paper is the sludge produced by removing ink and additives. However, this sludge is material that would otherwise be in landfills and it has repeatedly been proven to be non-toxic.'
- From The Society for Natural Resources Conservation, Cornell University
Yeah, I know you're going to come back at me with a quote from Rush Limbaugh or some advertisement you saw on tv... Or dismiss Cornell University as a hippy haven of intellectuals... Whatever.
13 to 21mpg
Dymaxion car was actually w-a-y ahead of its time. It got 30 mpg in 1933.
When you look at only one invention of his, it's easy to tear apart... But when you study the breadth of his work, including his piercing insight in to globalization... I think scientists should be more like Fuller. Overspecialization has made our culture perfect, but very boring.
Why not just use Photoshop?
CS 2 works fine with Wine.
Even Adobe would like to see CS 3 be compatible with Wine so I really think it's just a matter of time.
"We looked at two emotional variables: arousal and valence," said Hutton. "Arousal is the degree of physical excitation -- as measured through skin conductance -- and valence, which is the range of positive or negative feeling."
So this means race car drivers are much more creative than say... artists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MfFjlF_BkM Doesn't everyone want to be at this concert?
I agree. It seems at some point more body armor, health care, etc. become more appropriate places to spend more money.
Flying remote control drones make perfect sense... but 3d image recognition, fast reflexes... all that is going to take 10 years at least. It's a hell of a lot easier to create a 3d scene than it is to generate one from a camera image.
I know it's not military-grade hardware, but I designed a color sensor for a robot using the AVR-cam. Just to establish an image and track to a certain color was slow and difficult... and this was on a nice white board in a nice room with 4 walls. That's for 100 dollars... but think about instant feedback, unpredictable terrain, interpreting friend and foe...
Not to mention that you could design all this and find it very hackable or easy to disable.
No joke! Scanning msn.com right now the headline is 'is she divorced or just single, why it matters' and the three 'Popular Searches' are Naomi Campbell, Magnum P.I. and Mega Millions.
What gutter demographic are they looking for with this? They should look at their absolute cr#$ tabloid journalism and lack of any substantial news as probable reasons why people choose yahoo over msn/hotmail.
Instead they'll take over a company and wonder why it crashes in to the ground in a few years time.
I think that's exactly it. People want to frame this as 'it's a good deal now that we're in a recession'... as if economics was the only motivational factor behind anyones' existence.
I would imagine Jerry Yang finds himself opposed to many of Microsoft's core operating principles.
Undoubtedly, he will cringe when he types yahoo.com into his browser a few years from now.
Well yeah, in the US and probably most of Europe this is the case... but go walk around marketplaces in countries like Nepal, Armenia, Chile and you will find Autocad, Matlab, Maya, for a couple dollars. Nevertheless, it's a long stretch to think that this is funding terrorism.
Have the same experience. I bought a new computer for video editing, and made the mistake of getting Vista x64 Ultimate. My 4 year old Mac is much more stable.... and I have spent literally DAYS trying to iron out all the driver conflicts in Vista. I have a feeling I am going to buy another mac and make my vista machine in to a linux server.
I think the best teachers in many universities learn to dumb their courses down. Professors that give easy A's have full classes and get great reviews. The one's that push for you to actually put in the hours and don't give out A's are avoided at all costs.
This is true, but in the case of the violin the difference is the form of sound projection. A loudspeaker may be able to generate most of those frequencies, but the sound will not emanate from the loudspeaker in the same way it comes out of a violin.
If you ever go to a cathedral and hear chamber music, you will find it is much different than any CD could replicate... because of the nature of the instruments and the nature of the room it is played in.
It's true. I think vinyl is on the way out for DJs... It's just too cumbersome to carry to a club!
One crate of vinyl fits on a gig flash drive.
Nevertheless, the vinyl album is still a great format. I think one reason people prefer it is actually do to the fact that the sound travels through the phono preamps which warms the sound a bit. This especially helps with 'techno' and 'indie rock/grunge' styles of music where the fact that it was recorded with digital equipment can sometimes be smoothed a bit.
The mastering engineer is paid to make sure all the songs have the same levels and 'flow' from one to the other. You won't notice this if you are shuffling through mp3s... but if you put a good record on you'll notice some thought was put in to the track order.
I guess at this point... I'm just glad Itunes has added the album artwork viewer! Vinyl is a great medium, I just don't have time for it any more.
So true. We believed we had unlimited resources in the 60's... or at least we didn't want to look at the consequences then. I realize there is a great nostalgia for that first televised landing in space, the great potential, ticker-tape parades, all that...
Nevertheless, when oil reaches $200 a barrel, it may be hard enough just taking a man to his job and back... So maybe it's time to find new frontiers a little closer to home.
We have billions of years before the sun gives out, just looking at technological development in the past 80 years it becomes obvious that if we sit back and learn to use resources well... getting off this rock in a few thousand years is easy. Learning to live together on it is hard.
Completely agree. An Operating System has everything to do with how you use a computer. I am so happy I was a child with a Commodore VIC-20. I learned so much with that computer.
I happen to love libraries... I think many of them are outdated, but ... hey... it's a public space to read, browse the internet, listen to lectures, etc.
Recently our campus library allowed people to bring food and talk on 3 of the 4 levels. It's great... I don't think I could have learned Calculus anywhere else. There simply are too many distractions at the local coffee shop.