Technically, I probably rate a bit above (or below) "some middle-aged couple" and I agree that getting an internet connection could be a nighmare. A modem definately should have been included because installing and confinguring one to even get a dialtone can be very challenging.
Despite this, I think it looks great and if the battery lasts nearly as long as they claim it will be a big seller. It needs a catchy name! How about "Lapenguin"? (get it, lap+penguin, Ok, you try...)
Do "we"? Seems that psychologists and psychiatrists would be out of work.
..."and yet we can't extrapolate the behavior of entire societies from this."
We can't? Crowd behavior may be better understood than individual behavior. Example: an individual's response to "fire!" is less predictable than a crowd in a theater.
This is the second post where someone watched an ATM reboot OS/2. This seems inconsistent with other posts claiming superior OS/2 reliability. Just how challenging can it be to keep a simple ATM running?
Is anyone else sick of this car analogy? You can count on it appearing every time the Mac vs. PC is discussed.
Here's the problem with this analogy. We only drive cars *to* work while for many, computers *are* our work. Ok, ideally we walk to work or telecommute, which only makes the analogy even worse (i.e., we could do without cars altogether).
The cost differential in cars can easily be 3+ fold. Nonetheless, even the fastest car gets stuck in traffic jams and even the cheapest cars are pretty darn comfortable (certainly compared, say, to an old bug).
In contrast, the cost differential between Macs and PCs is much less than 2-fold, even ignoring total cost of ownership calculations. This is your JOB and/or your love. Spending a little more (thousands, tops, vs. tens of thousands for a car) makes perfect sense.
The Hobie cat (not Hobby, the designer's name is "Hobie", http://www.hobiecat.com/) is a great sailboat. Ladeling technology into a monohull will never make it as fast as a multihull. The record-breaking "Playstation" is a catamaran (2 hulls). The Little America's Cup, which is apparently moribund, was really the testbed for sailing technology. These boats were built for thousands and could easily beat the America's Cup boats that were built for millions (in the old days, 1970's prices).
Surprisingly, even "diesel" train locomotives use electric motors to drive the wheels. The diesel just powers a generator. Along with providing high torque, this arrangement is also economical because the electic motors can be replaced more easily than a diesel.
Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the oil industry, the USA should be planning for the future. Declare a technical equivalent of war and ramp up spending for deep research into energy production and efficiency. The advances that produced microelectronics never would've been made without enormous government spending, yet all that spending has been recouped through taxes on the industry it fostered.
The Danes and other nations that are investing for the future will build industries that will sell to the world. If the USA invests mostly in arms, used largely to defend the oil supply, we will make more enemies than customers and the trade deficit will grow. This is not a recipe for a peaceful and prosperous future.
The article concludes with the statement that the "Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested."
Translation: DoD is currently prohibited from purchasing open-source software. Looks like MS won at least a delaying action.
It's probably Edison's method that is so galling. It's as if Pasteur, instead of saying that "chance favors the prepared mind", had said that "chance favors the bigger research lab" (in french, of course). More monkeys on more typewriters is not an admirable way to produce anything. Edison, unlike scientists mentioned in other posts, does not seem to have cared much about the underlying physical phenomena.
Use the iPOD for storage on a digital video camera. Just add a lens, a ccd, and a little processing to the firewire input. Sure beats tape and the component nature of the resulting device would make it easier to upgrade.
Agreed! Nearly all the other programming books are huge. To think, K&R introduced the whole language in just over 200 pages with clear examples and a lot of white space. It also makes a great reference book, maybe because it's so easy to find the important things.
Do these drives give a warning before failing? About a year ago, my (then) 2 year old thinkpad started giving warnings about an expected drive failure. The warning was some function that IBM had put into the drive controller. I considered replacing the drive with a different, cheaper drive. However, since the warning might have saved a lot of stuff that I hadn't backed up, I got another IBM drive and put the old one in the ultra bay. Easiest switch imaginable! Now I can still use the old drive.
The article says that the algorith assumes that two genes interact when both are mentioned in the same paper. Imagine that the paper actually shows "gene 1 and gene 2 do NOT interact". Nevertheless this new algorith perpetuates and extends the mistaken idea that they do.
It was reported on the News Hour last night that the American pilot said he slowed down when the Chinese fighter plane came up fast behind. If this is the case, it suggests to me that the American pilot was somewhat responsible for the accident/incident.
Imagine you're driving down the road and some jerk zooms up behind you. Now if you hit your brakes, you've actually CAUSED the ensuing accident. Let's leave legal responsibility to the lawyers. But common sense says you are responsible.
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Technically, I probably rate a bit above (or below) "some middle-aged couple" and I agree that getting an internet connection could be a nighmare. A modem definately should have been included because installing and confinguring one to even get a dialtone can be very challenging.
Despite this, I think it looks great and if the battery lasts nearly as long as they claim it will be a big seller. It needs a catchy name! How about "Lapenguin"? (get it, lap+penguin, Ok, you try...)
Do "we"? Seems that psychologists and psychiatrists would be out of work.
We can't? Crowd behavior may be better understood than individual behavior. Example: an individual's response to "fire!" is less predictable than a crowd in a theater.
This is the second post where someone watched an ATM reboot OS/2. This seems inconsistent with other posts claiming superior OS/2 reliability. Just how challenging can it be to keep a simple ATM running?
Is anyone else sick of this car analogy? You can count on it appearing every time the Mac vs. PC is discussed.
Here's the problem with this analogy. We only drive cars *to* work while for many, computers *are* our work. Ok, ideally we walk to work or telecommute, which only makes the analogy even worse (i.e., we could do without cars altogether).
The cost differential in cars can easily be 3+ fold. Nonetheless, even the fastest car gets stuck in traffic jams and even the cheapest cars are pretty darn comfortable (certainly compared, say, to an old bug).
In contrast, the cost differential between Macs and PCs is much less than 2-fold, even ignoring total cost of ownership calculations. This is your JOB and/or your love. Spending a little more (thousands, tops, vs. tens of thousands for a car) makes perfect sense.
The Hobie cat (not Hobby, the designer's name is "Hobie", http://www.hobiecat.com/) is a great sailboat. Ladeling technology into a monohull will never make it as fast as a multihull. The record-breaking "Playstation" is a catamaran (2 hulls). The Little America's Cup, which is apparently moribund, was really the testbed for sailing technology. These boats were built for thousands and could easily beat the America's Cup boats that were built for millions (in the old days, 1970's prices).
Surprisingly, even "diesel" train locomotives use electric motors to drive the wheels. The diesel just powers a generator. Along with providing high torque, this arrangement is also economical because the electic motors can be replaced more easily than a diesel.
Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the oil industry, the USA should be planning for the future. Declare a technical equivalent of war and ramp up spending for deep research into energy production and efficiency. The advances that produced microelectronics never would've been made without enormous government spending, yet all that spending has been recouped through taxes on the industry it fostered.
The Danes and other nations that are investing for the future will build industries that will sell to the world. If the USA invests mostly in arms, used largely to defend the oil supply, we will make more enemies than customers and the trade deficit will grow. This is not a recipe for a peaceful and prosperous future.
The article concludes with the statement that the "Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested."
Translation: DoD is currently prohibited from purchasing open-source software. Looks like MS won at least a delaying action.
It's probably Edison's method that is so galling. It's as if Pasteur, instead of saying that "chance favors the prepared mind", had said that "chance favors the bigger research lab" (in french, of course). More monkeys on more typewriters is not an admirable way to produce anything. Edison, unlike scientists mentioned in other posts, does not seem to have cared much about the underlying physical phenomena.
Use the iPOD for storage on a digital video camera. Just add a lens, a ccd, and a little processing to the firewire input. Sure beats tape and the component nature of the resulting device would make it easier to upgrade.
Agreed! Nearly all the other programming books are huge. To think, K&R introduced the whole language in just over 200 pages with clear examples and a lot of white space. It also makes a great reference book, maybe because it's so easy to find the important things.
... a "pile"? Oh wait, even single processor Windows machines are often called piles...
uhh... Not to be (equally) nationalistic, but in slamming MS you seem to overlook the fact that UNIX was also developed in the US.
peltier cooling? No moving parts and easily controlled.
Do these drives give a warning before failing? About a year ago, my (then) 2 year old thinkpad started giving warnings about an expected drive failure. The warning was some function that IBM had put into the drive controller. I considered replacing the drive with a different, cheaper drive. However, since the warning might have saved a lot of stuff that I hadn't backed up, I got another IBM drive and put the old one in the ultra bay. Easiest switch imaginable! Now I can still use the old drive.
The article says that the algorith assumes that two genes interact when both are mentioned in the same paper. Imagine that the paper actually shows "gene 1 and gene 2 do NOT interact". Nevertheless this new algorith perpetuates and extends the mistaken idea that they do.
Some leap forward: "Information in, Error out"!
It was reported on the News Hour last night that the American pilot said he slowed down when the Chinese fighter plane came up fast behind. If this is the case, it suggests to me that the American pilot was somewhat responsible for the accident/incident.
Imagine you're driving down the road and some jerk zooms up behind you. Now if you hit your brakes, you've actually CAUSED the ensuing accident. Let's leave legal responsibility to the lawyers. But common sense says you are responsible.
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Who comes up with these names? Let's keep Star Wars in the realm of imagination, please...