I notice that the little cardslot in the top of the thing is a. Proprietary in the extreme,
HP has been running expansion slots ever since the 48GX, a pocket calculator, came out. I bought mine eight years ago! I'm not sure, but I think they even had a top loading expansion slot in an earlier model. Anyway, if anyone's doing any suing, it's not going to be Handspring.
IBM makes mainframes. They are third in the industry behind Sun and Compaq (DEC), respectively. I think they are aiming the 64-bit PPC Linux port to give them a boost in the market. Native linux has scalability problems but IBM has been putting an effort into developing large scale Linux solutions in recent projects. Combined with a recent deal with Redhat, they seem to be surging forwards into the linux mainframe market.
I think putting Linux onto a handheld device is just as pointless as putting Windows. What do you honestly need the power for? Do you ever crunch through heavy databases on your Palm? Do you ever program fiercely on your handheld? Do you ever play Quake on it? How does a command prompt help you check your address book?
I think the notion of having an open source handheld operating system is excellent. But that's exactly all it should be- a handheld operating system. Handhelds will never replace desktops. They aren't ment to.
Curiously, you know how scientists make liquid oxygen? They cool it down using liquid nitrogen. The boiling point of nitrogen is approximately 77 kelvin whereas the boiling point for oxygen is about 90 kelvin.
Also a curious fact, oxygen is paramagnetic- meaning it will orient itself in line with a magnet. A really neat experiment with liquid oxygen is dribble it into a really strong magnet field and watch it stick to one of the sides.
C12/C13 are stable isotopes. Biological things deal with them as seperate entities. Abiological things don't. When you see a disproportionate amount of C12/C13 in a certain mineral deposit, it was likely created by a biological system. This is how life is dated on C12/C13 ratios.
Look, the SFgate article dates the meteorite to have hit 4.6 bya, but the magnetite crystals were encased in carbon from 3.9 bya. Assuming this is true, how does NASA account for this.7 byr discrepancy?
Now it has been suggested that the magnetite crystals were older than life on Earth, but this is likely not true. We have fossil records of complex life on Earth dating to 3.5 bya and C12/C13 abundance records dating life on Earth to at least 3.8 bya. The techniques used to examine C12/C13 abundances were developed in 1996 (Nature, Vol 384, p55-59, 1996) and references a similar isotope formation "from nearby Akilia island that is possibly older than 3,850 Myr". Curiously, that's not much of a gap considering the accuracy of carbon dating from 4 billion years ago.
Look, just because some shmoo finds crystals aligned in a row doesn't mean that martian life did it. There are all sorts of problems with finding potentially biologicals on meteorites. This is illuminated by the C1+C2 meteorites (the ones generally studdied are the Murchison, Orgueil and Murray) which contain high concentrations of fixed carbons. People (i.e. A. W. Schwartz et al) have gone through rigorous testing to prove that the uracil they find on these three meteorites was actually there before they landed, and even then you can't be 100% sure.
In this situation, where you want to prove that Martian bacteria left a footprint on a meteorite, things get much more complicated. For example, what if the crystal chains were actually formed by bacteria after the meteorite hit but before it was found?
To prove this was false would require you to show that the chains couldn't have been created by any bacteria on this planet, which would make you wonder if they could have been created by bacteria-like-things on Mars either!
Nitrogen (liquid), a common and relatively cheap method for cooling all sorts of things, has a boiling temperature of approximately -196C. Scientists only have about 40 degrees to go before they can start utilizing super conductors for practical applications.
The assistant principal could have easily sued for slander, or pursued some out of school action. I think he failed by trying to act within the school. What the kid did was mean and wrong, but it wronged the assistant principal, not the school.
I would never want to relocate to Utah. But that is totally not an aspect of Utah's liquor laws or any church and state intermingling. I also consider low cost of living and good school systems to be only a bonus. I care more about the location in respect to it being:
Close to areas that I think of as home (i.e. the New England and the Northwest)
Relatively close to my family
So I think that the article may apply to some people, but certainly not to all. An alternative might be for Iomega to try to recruit locally (and in states near Utah) with more seriousness. They would not only get people who were used to Utah liquor etc. laws, but they would find people who would be used to living in Utah too.
Games like Thief and System Shock proved something that movie makers have forgotten, that the ultimate suspence can be resounding silence. Instead we get predictable sound tracks that give away the next move... beh. Sound effects, especially ambient sound effects can drag you into the game and keep you on your toes for hours.
Being enthralled by the atmosphere in the game is what keeps people like me fascinated by the game. Trying to kill the humungous boss with an arsenal of weapons at the end of a level is rather boring in comparison to having to inch across a narrow beam 50 feet up in the wair above a pair of guards.
try 'Amber: Journeys Beyond' by Hue Forest. The game was published in 1996 in a Myst-like world. It had no soundtrack and no movement. Every once in a while a movie would come up and the walls would start bleeding. I've never played a more frightening game (and I've played some doosies). Minimalism at its best.
Now I finally understand the pretense for Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
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This shouldn't be too hard to build, however the laptop would have to be always-on (which would be hell on the batteries) and a GPS unit would need to be added in some way shape or form.
This is not necessarily an issue. The machine could transmit automatically only when is on. This would cut the strain on the battery, but still utilize tracking. Assuming you make the laptop such that it can't be physically broken into without damaging any of the machinery, the thief will need to turn on the computer to retrieve any data from it.
the main point of a university program is social interaction that goes along with it
True. However, this school already assumes that you have a degree from an accredited college or university. Consequently, it assumes that you have learned how to be social at your previous institution. Ars Digita seems to be more of a graduate program than a university, and the main point of a graduate school is to learn.
I go to a major university, there's no way I put in 12 hrs a day of work, and I'm still already stressed out.
If you wanted you could go to that major university and work 70 hours a week at it. Nothing is stopping you. Double major. Triple major. There are people that do it. They go to your school.
Do you have any plans to counter potential burnout?
I would think that the main plan for countering burnout is having the school only last for one year.
I have one question: Why is entry for the school based on SAT scores?
Personally, I am very interested in Ars Digita. I am graduating from Reed College next year with a degree in chemistry. When I leave school I plan on continuing my schooling, not in chemistry, but in a somewhat polar discipline: biomedical engineering. Although my work experience has been in engineering, I am clearly a chemist by education. This will present an obvious problem when I apply to graduate schools. Quick and dirty education in the closely related field, computer science, would be entirely beneficial to me.
Four years ago I took the SATs. Four years ago I was also much less focused and cared less about testing well. Since then I have learned to rapidly read, to write, and as a whole, I have honed my work ethic. Next semester I write an equivilant to a graduate school thesis. Next year I will have a degree from arguably the most difficult undergraduate school in America.
My resume doesn't even include things that I did in high school. Why should enterance to your school be based on an exam I took when I was seventeen? I scored 1390 then, with 610 verbal and 790 math. I won't be allowed to apply to your school because of the 1400 point cap.
I think you would be better off asking for GRE test scores, as you are effectively a graduate school. You could alternatively drop the 1400 point cap and pay more attention to essays, recommendations and transcripts.
what about tech support manuals telling you why your computer crashed? what about eye strain? they don't make very good stickies with notes to mark page sections and you don't get the joy of folding over corners of pages just to spite your awful fourth grade school teacher who told you not to.
Although most the audio world has gone to CD players and digital amplifiers, those who do serious work with audio still use turntables and analog amplifiers. Sound is warmer. We've grown so accustomed to the little imperfections that digital equipment sounds hollow and cold. I would never trade my 1978 Harman/Kardon for the digital surround sound mumbo jumbo. Although I have two CD players, my turntable gets at least as much work.
I also am into amateur photography, and have been ever since school. Beyond the drastic difference in photo quality, there's something nice about the irregularities of a camera. The lines are crisp and straight. Where there are grains, the grains are irregular, giving a warmer, more natural image. Along a similar note, I just recently purchased a new Macintosh Powerbook with, of course, an LCD screen. Although my LCD screen is almost as large as my tube monitor for my old Macintosh and the screen resolution is much higher, the picture quality on the tube monitor is far superior. Everything is cleaner.
Another note: Creating an accurate polarization with Photoshop was as simple as selecting a menu option and just as boring, but to see a really nice polarization in a print is just so much more special. Every once in a while I still get out the pinhole camera I built in school because you can do things with it that you could never consider doing with a point and click camera, let alone a digital one. There's something impressive in knowing exactly what is happening in a photo, and knowing that you are doing it actively.
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I notice that the little cardslot in the top of the thing is a. Proprietary in the extreme,
HP has been running expansion slots ever since the 48GX, a pocket calculator, came out. I bought mine eight years ago! I'm not sure, but I think they even had a top loading expansion slot in an earlier model. Anyway, if anyone's doing any suing, it's not going to be Handspring.
Similarly, the cube.
You're right, but I was talking in reference to the five big technologies of old.
five new product categories have achieved mass acceptance: the video recorder, videogame consoles, CD players, answering machines and cordless phones
What about Pagers? It seems like everyone has a pager these days.
Compaq and HP, my bad.
IBM makes mainframes. They are third in the industry behind Sun and Compaq (DEC), respectively. I think they are aiming the 64-bit PPC Linux port to give them a boost in the market. Native linux has scalability problems but IBM has been putting an effort into developing large scale Linux solutions in recent projects. Combined with a recent deal with Redhat, they seem to be surging forwards into the linux mainframe market.
But if they did, I'd have to buy a jornada.
I think putting Linux onto a handheld device is just as pointless as putting Windows. What do you honestly need the power for? Do you ever crunch through heavy databases on your Palm? Do you ever program fiercely on your handheld? Do you ever play Quake on it? How does a command prompt help you check your address book?
I think the notion of having an open source handheld operating system is excellent. But that's exactly all it should be- a handheld operating system. Handhelds will never replace desktops. They aren't ment to.
Just a stupid question, but if I poured a few drops of liquid oxygen over a superconducting magnet, would it float in mid air?
I've seen it done with a really big conventional magnet. It was pretty cool, let me tell you.
Curiously, you know how scientists make liquid oxygen? They cool it down using liquid nitrogen. The boiling point of nitrogen is approximately 77 kelvin whereas the boiling point for oxygen is about 90 kelvin.
Also a curious fact, oxygen is paramagnetic- meaning it will orient itself in line with a magnet. A really neat experiment with liquid oxygen is dribble it into a really strong magnet field and watch it stick to one of the sides.
Now, with an arc welder and a two sticks of graphite, you too can create buckyballs!
Isolating them is an entirely other beast, though.
Also note the paper: Nature, Vol 384, p55-59, 1996 for a full description of the method.
C12/C13 are stable isotopes. Biological things deal with them as seperate entities. Abiological things don't. When you see a disproportionate amount of C12/C13 in a certain mineral deposit, it was likely created by a biological system. This is how life is dated on C12/C13 ratios.
Look, the SFgate article dates the meteorite to have hit 4.6 bya, but the magnetite crystals were encased in carbon from 3.9 bya. Assuming this is true, how does NASA account for this .7 byr discrepancy?
Now it has been suggested that the magnetite crystals were older than life on Earth, but this is likely not true. We have fossil records of complex life on Earth dating to 3.5 bya and C12/C13 abundance records dating life on Earth to at least 3.8 bya. The techniques used to examine C12/C13 abundances were developed in 1996 (Nature, Vol 384, p55-59, 1996) and references a similar isotope formation "from nearby Akilia island that is possibly older than 3,850 Myr". Curiously, that's not much of a gap considering the accuracy of carbon dating from 4 billion years ago.
In this situation, where you want to prove that Martian bacteria left a footprint on a meteorite, things get much more complicated. For example, what if the crystal chains were actually formed by bacteria after the meteorite hit but before it was found?
Nitrogen (liquid), a common and relatively cheap method for cooling all sorts of things, has a boiling temperature of approximately -196C. Scientists only have about 40 degrees to go before they can start utilizing super conductors for practical applications.
The assistant principal could have easily sued for slander, or pursued some out of school action. I think he failed by trying to act within the school. What the kid did was mean and wrong, but it wronged the assistant principal, not the school.
So I think that the article may apply to some people, but certainly not to all. An alternative might be for Iomega to try to recruit locally (and in states near Utah) with more seriousness. They would not only get people who were used to Utah liquor etc. laws, but they would find people who would be used to living in Utah too.
The typical session span with the Crusoe chip could last up to 5.5 hours.
So What? The Apple G3 Powerbooks have gotten 5 hours out of a battery for years, now.
The iBooks, which have been out for a year already, get 6 hours.
Games like Thief and System Shock proved something that movie makers have forgotten, that the ultimate suspence can be resounding silence. Instead we get predictable sound tracks that give away the next move... beh. Sound effects, especially ambient sound effects can drag you into the game and keep you on your toes for hours.
Being enthralled by the atmosphere in the game is what keeps people like me fascinated by the game. Trying to kill the humungous boss with an arsenal of weapons at the end of a level is rather boring in comparison to having to inch across a narrow beam 50 feet up in the wair above a pair of guards.
try 'Amber: Journeys Beyond' by Hue Forest. The game was published in 1996 in a Myst-like world. It had no soundtrack and no movement. Every once in a while a movie would come up and the walls would start bleeding. I've never played a more frightening game (and I've played some doosies). Minimalism at its best.
Now I finally understand the pretense for Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
This shouldn't be too hard to build, however the laptop would have to be always-on (which would be hell on the batteries) and a GPS unit would need to be added in some way shape or form.
This is not necessarily an issue. The machine could transmit automatically only when is on. This would cut the strain on the battery, but still utilize tracking. Assuming you make the laptop such that it can't be physically broken into without damaging any of the machinery, the thief will need to turn on the computer to retrieve any data from it.
the main point of a university program is social interaction that goes along with it
True. However, this school already assumes that you have a degree from an accredited college or university. Consequently, it assumes that you have learned how to be social at your previous institution. Ars Digita seems to be more of a graduate program than a university, and the main point of a graduate school is to learn.
I go to a major university, there's no way I put in 12 hrs a day of work, and I'm still already stressed out.
If you wanted you could go to that major university and work 70 hours a week at it. Nothing is stopping you. Double major. Triple major. There are people that do it. They go to your school.
Do you have any plans to counter potential burnout?
I would think that the main plan for countering burnout is having the school only last for one year.
I have one question: Why is entry for the school based on SAT scores?
Personally, I am very interested in Ars Digita. I am graduating from Reed College next year with a degree in chemistry. When I leave school I plan on continuing my schooling, not in chemistry, but in a somewhat polar discipline: biomedical engineering. Although my work experience has been in engineering, I am clearly a chemist by education. This will present an obvious problem when I apply to graduate schools. Quick and dirty education in the closely related field, computer science, would be entirely beneficial to me.
Four years ago I took the SATs. Four years ago I was also much less focused and cared less about testing well. Since then I have learned to rapidly read, to write, and as a whole, I have honed my work ethic. Next semester I write an equivilant to a graduate school thesis. Next year I will have a degree from arguably the most difficult undergraduate school in America.
My resume doesn't even include things that I did in high school. Why should enterance to your school be based on an exam I took when I was seventeen? I scored 1390 then, with 610 verbal and 790 math. I won't be allowed to apply to your school because of the 1400 point cap.
I think you would be better off asking for GRE test scores, as you are effectively a graduate school. You could alternatively drop the 1400 point cap and pay more attention to essays, recommendations and transcripts.
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what about tech support manuals telling you why your computer crashed? what about eye strain? they don't make very good stickies with notes to mark page sections and you don't get the joy of folding over corners of pages just to spite your awful fourth grade school teacher who told you not to.
Although most the audio world has gone to CD players and digital amplifiers, those who do serious work with audio still use turntables and analog amplifiers. Sound is warmer. We've grown so accustomed to the little imperfections that digital equipment sounds hollow and cold. I would never trade my 1978 Harman/Kardon for the digital surround sound mumbo jumbo. Although I have two CD players, my turntable gets at least as much work.
I also am into amateur photography, and have been ever since school. Beyond the drastic difference in photo quality, there's something nice about the irregularities of a camera. The lines are crisp and straight. Where there are grains, the grains are irregular, giving a warmer, more natural image. Along a similar note, I just recently purchased a new Macintosh Powerbook with, of course, an LCD screen. Although my LCD screen is almost as large as my tube monitor for my old Macintosh and the screen resolution is much higher, the picture quality on the tube monitor is far superior. Everything is cleaner.
Another note: Creating an accurate polarization with Photoshop was as simple as selecting a menu option and just as boring, but to see a really nice polarization in a print is just so much more special. Every once in a while I still get out the pinhole camera I built in school because you can do things with it that you could never consider doing with a point and click camera, let alone a digital one. There's something impressive in knowing exactly what is happening in a photo, and knowing that you are doing it actively.