That's not a concern with this system, which has no chance of providing a viable defense against anything moving faster than an unladen swallow anyway. The only important goal of the project is to spend as much money as possible, and gain as much power for the people behind it as possible, before they're forced to admit that it's useless.
Basic economic theory says that you're wrong. The time value of money says that you'll always be able to make a low-risk buck through simple lending in all of its various forms. The government is just a particularly good choice right now because it's deeply entrenched and has a lot of guns. But please, stop confusing conditions with laws. Within "the system" of the world around us, here and now, certain rules apply, but they're not the whole of economic theory; they're just the product of certain organizations of power and money.
I'm fairly recently out of high school myself, and I think I can say that there are a good number of people who think that robots are cool, and would love to do stuff with them, if they could afford it. If there's a Science Olympiad competition around, sponsor a team! Olympiad is a great program, involving some day-of-the-event knowledge tests, and some great building projects, covering a good range of the sciences. To do well, you need all different sorts of people on your team, so it ends up being a really fun way for the geeks and the borderline geeks to get together and do something interesting for a day. Especially if you can afford to enter the Robot Ramble:)
Indeed. The language is oddball, and the GUI wrapper is so thin you can see right through it, but Maxima is about the best thing I've seen for free. Then again, I definitely wouldn't recommend it for teaching.
Yeah, actually this has got to piss MS off. They say that they put a free alternative on there, so that the price of Windows isn't part of the machine, and the consumer can load up whatever they want -- okay, that's great, wish it was easier to get that here. But "everybody knows" that in China, everybody's going to load up these machines with pirated copies of Windows. So what this looks like if you're MS and you think that everyone is out to get you, is that HP is basically ripping them off by not forcing the Chinese to at least pay for OEM copies of their stuff.
Ditto... sort of. I got an SL5500 when they were new-ish, at a high, but bearable, $350. That one's deceased now, and I'd love to get a new Zaurus, but the prices for the C models are just way too far out there, even for as cool as they are.
It was integrated just fine years ago when it came out, because they didn't have that virtual graffiti hackery to worry about. But yeah, it's sad that they didn't keep up.
It's already more user-friendly, if you're into logical UI, and getting rid of the horrible window-MDI model. But considering the availability of the "Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer", at least some people prefer broken.
Yeah, that'll work nicely. Set up the airbrush tool, get out the stylus, start painting... chug... a second or three later, the tool file is loaded and it starts actually noticing my command; meanwhile, who knows where I am or how much it missed. I think I'll live with a little load time in the beginning, with some nice art!
No, it's got nothing to do with windows; I was able to reproduce it on Konqueror and firefox, both with popup blocking disabled. It looks like it's got to do with what javascript is allowed to do with opened windows. But it does look like most browsers' popup blockers manage to interfere with the process -- except IE6 SP2's.
Only if you decide not to pay attention to any of the context, such as the next sentence about "moving forward a whole range of initiatives"... My criticism of this sentence wouldn't be the standard one, it would be that he said he took the initiative in moving initiatives. That's a little too dense.
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See how the entire problem is eliminated by de-squigglifying? Suddenly the two things don't depend on each other, they relate to each other. Stock Yes/No/Cancel dialog boxes might have made sense for Windows 3.1, but they're not necessary today.
you should try reading the article. Or knowing a little bit about what you're talking about, because most of it has nothing to do with holograms at all.
Think of it as a pendulum that has slowly gone back and forth has now very suddenly rocketed towards one extreme as if someone whacked it with a tennis racket.
Consider the mass of all the air, water, and rock that makes up your "pendulum". Consider the amount of energy that it receives from the sun on a daily basis. Decide for yourself whether the effect of man on this system consitutes "tennis racket rockets" or rather more of a light breeze.
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That's not a concern with this system, which has no chance of providing a viable defense against anything moving faster than an unladen swallow anyway. The only important goal of the project is to spend as much money as possible, and gain as much power for the people behind it as possible, before they're forced to admit that it's useless.
Basic economic theory says that you're wrong. The time value of money says that you'll always be able to make a low-risk buck through simple lending in all of its various forms. The government is just a particularly good choice right now because it's deeply entrenched and has a lot of guns. But please, stop confusing conditions with laws. Within "the system" of the world around us, here and now, certain rules apply, but they're not the whole of economic theory; they're just the product of certain organizations of power and money.
I'm fairly recently out of high school myself, and I think I can say that there are a good number of people who think that robots are cool, and would love to do stuff with them, if they could afford it. If there's a Science Olympiad competition around, sponsor a team! Olympiad is a great program, involving some day-of-the-event knowledge tests, and some great building projects, covering a good range of the sciences. To do well, you need all different sorts of people on your team, so it ends up being a really fun way for the geeks and the borderline geeks to get together and do something interesting for a day. Especially if you can afford to enter the Robot Ramble :)
Not all of the programming languages are English-based. Don't forget Var'aq!
% is the symbol for corpses/food in nethack and various other games. So just imagine that it's corned beef, and all will make sense.
Amen to that, brother!
or just use Google :)
Indeed. The language is oddball, and the GUI wrapper is so thin you can see right through it, but Maxima is about the best thing I've seen for free. Then again, I definitely wouldn't recommend it for teaching.
I was going to post the same, but rather than being redundant, I'll just endorse the parent. FLAC has some good things going for it.
Yeah, actually this has got to piss MS off. They say that they put a free alternative on there, so that the price of Windows isn't part of the machine, and the consumer can load up whatever they want -- okay, that's great, wish it was easier to get that here. But "everybody knows" that in China, everybody's going to load up these machines with pirated copies of Windows. So what this looks like if you're MS and you think that everyone is out to get you, is that HP is basically ripping them off by not forcing the Chinese to at least pay for OEM copies of their stuff.
Ditto... sort of. I got an SL5500 when they were new-ish, at a high, but bearable, $350. That one's deceased now, and I'd love to get a new Zaurus, but the prices for the C models are just way too far out there, even for as cool as they are.
Of course, depending on available resources, actually following those instructions can be anything but 'easy'.
It was integrated just fine years ago when it came out, because they didn't have that virtual graffiti hackery to worry about. But yeah, it's sad that they didn't keep up.
It's already more user-friendly, if you're into logical UI, and getting rid of the horrible window-MDI model. But considering the availability of the "Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer", at least some people prefer broken.
Yeah, that'll work nicely. Set up the airbrush tool, get out the stylus, start painting... chug... a second or three later, the tool file is loaded and it starts actually noticing my command; meanwhile, who knows where I am or how much it missed. I think I'll live with a little load time in the beginning, with some nice art!
No, it's got nothing to do with windows; I was able to reproduce it on Konqueror and firefox, both with popup blocking disabled. It looks like it's got to do with what javascript is allowed to do with opened windows. But it does look like most browsers' popup blockers manage to interfere with the process -- except IE6 SP2's.
That's "cromulent." As in, "embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word."
Only if you decide not to pay attention to any of the context, such as the next sentence about "moving forward a whole range of initiatives"... My criticism of this sentence wouldn't be the standard one, it would be that he said he took the initiative in moving initiatives. That's a little too dense.
See how the entire problem is eliminated by de-squigglifying? Suddenly the two things don't depend on each other, they relate to each other. Stock Yes/No/Cancel dialog boxes might have made sense for Windows 3.1, but they're not necessary today.
LyX flattens the learning curve for LaTeX enough that normal people have a chance of getting it before they trip :)
Where did they ever get the idea, anyway, that clerk should rhyme with mark, rather than with jerk, irk, work, and lurk?
you should try reading the article. Or knowing a little bit about what you're talking about, because most of it has nothing to do with holograms at all.
The holodeck would be a real replica. A fake replica would be something real trying to pretend that it's fake.
And when Skype releases a version that uses ALSA, it might actually have a chance of working right on more than two different sound cards :)
Consider the mass of all the air, water, and rock that makes up your "pendulum". Consider the amount of energy that it receives from the sun on a daily basis. Decide for yourself whether the effect of man on this system consitutes "tennis racket rockets" or rather more of a light breeze.