The problem I see is that these things will remain a fantasy so long as people don't really work to make things better. How can we truly progress when so many are convinced that it is not possible and they usually even stand in the way at every opportunity?
I just find it amazing that people can look at the advances we have made in biotech, nanotech and computer technology in the last 10 years and can't see some of the huge changes being made and the very positive things happening as a result.
We have come up with new proshetics to help people that have lost limbs, we have some kinds of cancer we can now completely cure and we can print 3d scaffolds for cell growth to regrow badly damaged areas of the world. This is just the technology that has made its way to the public so far and there is FAR more to come that is still in testing phase.
One of the big problems I see is that regular news does not really cover the positive things we are doing and they really have no idea how advanced the technology is or how fast we are advancing.
I for one intend to work on making things better. I have gone back to school to help turn some of the lab bench stuff we have into industrial processes. One of the problems is that biotech and nanotech is so new and we are learning so far is that our research abilities have massively outstripped our abilities to turn them into practical applications. I won't win any nobel prizes for what I do, it is likely that most will never hear of me but I can still make a large difference and help make the world a little bit better.
My view is that if you never try you can never succeed.
There are a lot of positive things going on in this world that most people just never hear about. Negativity sells and that is what is mostly reported. However, the amount of research for things like nano-medicines, prognostics, biotech etc is just amazing.
10 years ago the state of the art prosthetic was basically a hook. Now we can do basic wiring up to the nervous system and in the last few months an artificial skin more sensitive than ours and a MUCH better neural interface where developed. I just don't get why so many people are so negative or consider it to be some kind of dream to want to try and improve the world in any way.
This is what I want. This is one of the reasons I went back to school and am almost done with a degree in chemical and biological engineering. I want BCI. I want to replace all my organic components with robotic ones once they get better. I love the idea of turning myself fully into a robot once that technology works and spending a VERY long time exploring, learning etc.
I would love it if I could get a job working on this project. Sure it will be used for military applications but a lot of the stuff developed for military applications later sees very useful civilian applications.
I doubt they will replace the ones they already have just to get that feature now. However those tablets will fail in time and need to be replaced and they might as well be replaced with something that real notes can be taken on.
I also have no idea if it is a good idea for the average student and almost certainly not in grade school.
In my engineering classes last year I had hundreds of pages of notes and the trying to keep track of all of them, work on homework and share that with other group members etc is pretty miserable with hand written notes. I am hoping the galaxy notes fixes that problem. It does have very nice recognition of math, shapes and text and the stuff I have written in it so far has worked very well.
If I do something from memory and accidents or worth deaths happen as a result what will happen is I would be found personally guilty of criminal negligence. It is NOT okay for an engineer to do formulas, values for constants etc from memory. Sure you can get away with it for a while but if anything happens it is your ass directly on the line.
Memorization is not required and it is dangerous to do. That is a primary way that people screw up. Your memory is not even close to perfect. You forget bits and pieces and worse your brain fills in the details. So you can be completely confident you remembered something correctly that is incorrect. It doesn't matter if I think I can memorize stuff well or badly, it is something that is negligent behavior and leads to serious problems. Doctors are probably the worse offenders of this right now which is why basic expert systems already do over 50% better at diagnosis and prescription at half the cost as measured by patient outcomes. No matter what you think humans should not be memorizing information, it is a waste.
Look at all the studies on the accuracy of eyewitness testimonies. It ends up basically being the same thing. Look it up every time, all the time. Have a computer keep track of details and have it so that you can just put in what you need (steam at given temp and pressure, some constant etc) and it looks it up.
So use something like a galaxy note 8, microsoft surface pro or any other tablet with an active pen and a wacom digitizer. Just because the VAST majority of tablets are crappy for notes does not mean that good ones don't exist.
Tablets can be great for notes. You just have to get one of the right ones.
It looks like the entire thing was just wrote memorization which is darn close to completely worthless. People took notes and then did a multiple choice exam to repeat back the information in the notes.
Honestly, with or without a computer I find it very hard to pay attention or care in any memorization based class. The experience is pointless since memorizing the information gives you nothing on how to really use it, how to evaluate if you are within bounds for something, out of bounds, at an unstable point etc.
That is why I like my engineering classes. They give us real problems on exams and expect us to solve them in a more realistic way at least. The exams are normally open book, notes, pretty darn advanced calculators etc and the problems are hard as hell. If you don't understand how to approach the problems, how to figure out how to do them you have no chance of solving them in time. You can't learn from the book as you go. However, during the exams you need to figure out what information you need that is not provided in the problem, look at up in the books in charts, tables, equations etc.
As a result your hand is not held at every step. You are not told you will need certain values from the steam tables, others from phase diagrams, other relationships or equilibriums etc. You are expected to figure that out just like you do in the real world.
During our classes laptops are great for notes. Most of our lectures are on practical problem solving and being able to look things up, use MATLAB or Excel to work on the problems etc is a huge gain and you have those later to refer to. One of the things our professors emphasize is to LOOK IT UP. If you do something from memorization and it is wrong you can get people killed in engineering. It takes almost no effort and time to look something up so look it up every single time.
The important things to learn in class are how to setup the problems, why you set them up that way, what boundaries you need to watch for, what does the answer mean etc. The actual mechanical cranking of solving the problem is something that you pretty much just hand to a computer now. Being able to solve a system of 40+ ODEs by hand is not a useful skill. You will screw that up and you will waste a lot of time getting stuck in the details instead of learning how understand the system and how stable it is.
I have not liked how little regulation he supports. There are many things I feel should be regulated because the damage caused is greater than a company is worth and more than can be cleaned up. I don't like the ideas of companies having massive environmental disasters (like the gulf oil spill) and never having to actually clean up all the damage and pay everyone impacted for their losses.
The problem is that nobody has anywhere close to enough money to do that. As a result we need regulations to prevent it since companies certainly won't regulate themselves.
I feel the same way about many medical things where companies have been found to know of horrible problems that would kill their patients and they pay a fine that is a tiny fraction of what they made off of the sales.
Overall I would probably be happier in Canada or a scandinavian country.
This one I can completely understand. Overall I think the Democrats are pretty bad but the Republicans seem to be completely insane. For whatever reason the Republicans are running to the extremes of their base and I just can't support many of the things they do.
All the attacks on voting, gay rights, women, science etc I just find to be far too much for me to stomach.
I would not mind an actual pretty old style republican that was fiscal conservative, more militarily conservative (don't get us into any conflicts unless actually necessary which the recent ones have not been) and what currently qualifies as socially liberal. I do find it strange though that the party that talks about getting government out of your life focuses so much government time on trying to control how people live. I would have expected the conservative view to be that government should have nothing to do with any sexual orientation in a marriage since it is a contract law issue, that abortions are between you and your doctor and government should not be involved and that environmental laws would be easily enforced by land owners against those that have polluted their lands.
It seems we had republicans start the EPA and to me mind it seems like a conservative idea that has been all twisted up.
Mostly I want the country out of the various conflicts, to stop meddling in middle eastern countries as much as possible, to focus on education, infrastructure, scientific development and modern manufacturing systems and to leave the moral stuff up to individuals. I don't care what your orientation is, if you want an abortion or not, what your religious beliefs are or if you want to do drugs that don't harm others I just care if you can get whatever work you are doing done safely.
For this kind of application I can't think of anything better. OneNote is probably the best note taking app out there and the surface pro and a real digitizer and a digital pen so you can take good notes with it.
I picked up a galaxy note 8 for my engineering classes (since it also has a digitizer) and for what I do it works very well. I would have gotten a surface pro except that they are so much more expensive.
For any class where you have drawings it is hard to beat a tablet with a real digitizer. I used to type all my notes and that was harder to do as my engineering classes ended up with more and more diagrams. I also did not want to deal with pen and paper anymore since it is so hard to deal with it, find stuff in it, keep track of it, share information etc.
You can also look at other windows 8 tablets (NOT windows RT) and find ones with real digitizers (preferably wacom) and digital pens. There are some lenovo ones that are supposed to be nice.
After citizen's united there is no real chance of campaign finance reform.
Do you know how many decades people worked for in various states to get campaign finance reform at the state level and to have it wiped out in a single instant by the supreme court.
Do you have any idea how difficult it will be to get this fixed at the federal level since it would require a constitutional amendment. Corporations will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to defeat it and that much money will win. They will have studies that play everywhere constantly about how great it is that money is the same as speech etc.
Oh god if phones get that feature I hope I can turn it off. This whole social networking, blogging, sharing videos, photos etc thing is not for me.
What I can see happening though is our technology for implants is getting better very very quickly. More quickly than pretty much any person has any clue about. If you could get a neural implant to do IO (keyboard, mouse, audio, video) then it would be pretty feasible to run some pretty nice games on a cell phone with full immersion and then all that storage space would be very nice to have.
I can see a world where we carry around mobile devices that connect to our implants and we dock those devices to give them more power to work with.
This is wrong no matter who does it. However, what can we really do to stop this kind of behavior? The side with the most money wins elections and with the citizens united ruling there is no way to ever match what a company can for money there seems to be no real chance of getting better politicians. It seems that every group that wants to fix politics is quickly coopted and twisted..
How can we actually get real leaders that don't do this? My state had some of the toughest election laws in the county and within one year of citizens united that was mostly burned to the ground. The price of elections went up by over a factor of 10x and a LOT of pro-corporate people got it in some very nasty campaigns. If you can't even have clean city or state elections what chance is there for president?
The best I have seen so far for tablets is a galaxy note 10.1 or galaxy note 8. I picked up an 8 and so far it is working pretty well but there is still room for improvement.
The surface pro is supposed to work well for that also since it has an active digitizer. Overall though I would say the tablet makers are missing a huge market. They have something that is notepad to paper size and makes a good surface to write on but almost none of them support it.
The minerals, amino acids, sugars etc should all be stable in dried form. It should be very viable to create a healthy powdered drink that just requires adding water.
I don't actually care what other people think. The problem is that those things are not very good for you. Sure they are better than a lot of things but still not very good. I have not seen an actually researched and well designed meal replacement system. Most of what I have seen is just an attempt to trick people or made by people that really have no clue.
At least most of the meal replacement shakes I looked at were not really balanced around what your body needs on an ongoing basis. Sure you could replace a meal per day with them and not suffer much damage but not all your meals on an ongoing basis. I have also seen a lot of all natural ones and that is about all they have going for them since research and designed for long term usage did not go into them. Actually I am not worried about the all natural part at all. There are many chemicals we need that are easier for us to absorb in versions that are not what are normally found in nature and vastly cheaper to make.
We are just chemical robots. I am just looking for a better chemical supply to keep this body working efficiently until I can get it replaced.
Do you know anyplace that actually really makes meal sticks or something like that. I have actually looked at all the ones I can find are very poorly researched in terms of nutrition. They just go for natural ingredients and consider that healthy without any other testing.
I want a well researched meal replacement system that is actually healthy long term and simple.
I think at the grade school level this could be useful if used properly. At the university level it can definitely be good if used effectively.
I recently picked up a galaxy note 8 for taking notes on in my engineering classes. Last semester I had so many diagrams I had to write in class that it was hard to keep taking notes on a laptop and ended up with hundreds of pages of notes and homework work. Overall with that many pages it is too easy to lose things or find things.
From my experiments with the note so far it looks like it can easily do the job. Handwriting recognition for equations, diagrams etc and the ability to export to a pdf file that can be shared over google drive. I have not tried the indexed searching part yet.
This seems like the right way to do notes for school. You can even annotate pdf files easily which is useful. However using a tablet for school that doesn't have real pen input seems like mostly just a waste.
The problem is that I don't visualize at all. When I close my eyes I don't see any pictures. No dreams in pictures, thinking in pictures etc. Doing this kind of stuff is just not something I can do.
I can think of very complex problems in ways that others think of as very strange though but lead to very elegant solutions. I tend to be extremely good at taking something apart in my mind and turning it into a computer simulation or solve it in a very unorthodox and simple way.
I tried to learn to visualize things, so far I have not made any progress on that.
I looked at these tests and tried to figure it out for a bit but unless I actually cut those things out and folded them up there is just no way I could figure those things out. For some reason I just can't visualize at all. I don't think in pictures or dream in pictures. I am definitely creative though based on what I have done and others evaluations of what I have done. I often come up with unique ways to solve problems that others just can't figure out how they work even after they see them work.
Overall there are many ways to solve problems and confining creative problem solving to an ability to visualize problems would do us all a great disservice. What matters is developing the talents you have and figuring out how to really use them effectively.
It is great that we are learning this stuff. However nanoparticles are not in general good or bad, they are an entire class of molecules that are on the scale of a nanometer. Some will be good, some will be bad and the more we can learn about this the better off we are. There are some we have found that tend to concentrate in certain cell types and may help or harm the cell depending on what they are.
This is an area that needs a massive amount of effort and research. I suspect that many of the illnesses that people have now are actually caused by naturally occurring nanoparticles and that the cures for them is likely to be found in other types of nanoparticles.
What I don't get is why anyone that wants to be green would support natural gas. Sure you cut down on CO2 but natural gas is leaky as hell and methane is VASTLY worse in the atmosphere than CO2. It just makes no sense at all.
Overall my view is that regardless of if global warming is happening or not the burning of fossil fuels has got to go. Combustion at the same level we breathe is not good for us regardless of the impact on the environment. The particulates released are not very good either.
What I support is much better insulation and efficiency along with using power systems that make the most actual sense. In terms of total environmental damage over their entire lifetime vs cost the best I see right now is nuclear power. I would like to see us get fusion working but for right now fission is at least better than any fossil fuels and more reliable and lower impact than wind and solar.
Yeah that is pretty bad. I wonder how someone got that far in life and had never encountered a graph before. Unless you are blind I wonder how you even get out of grade school without using graphs at least sometimes.
What about the wifi is user hostile? So far for me I have not encountered problems with a 521 with the wifi. Even the wifi calling works fine. I have multiple wifi connections setup and when I walk in range it auto connects and the phone switches over to wifi mode automatically. What else is there for wifi to do?
I have downloaded podcasts, streaming music etc just fine along with a few apps and streamed videos without problems over wifi.
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The problem I see is that these things will remain a fantasy so long as people don't really work to make things better. How can we truly progress when so many are convinced that it is not possible and they usually even stand in the way at every opportunity?
I just find it amazing that people can look at the advances we have made in biotech, nanotech and computer technology in the last 10 years and can't see some of the huge changes being made and the very positive things happening as a result.
We have come up with new proshetics to help people that have lost limbs, we have some kinds of cancer we can now completely cure and we can print 3d scaffolds for cell growth to regrow badly damaged areas of the world. This is just the technology that has made its way to the public so far and there is FAR more to come that is still in testing phase.
One of the big problems I see is that regular news does not really cover the positive things we are doing and they really have no idea how advanced the technology is or how fast we are advancing.
I for one intend to work on making things better. I have gone back to school to help turn some of the lab bench stuff we have into industrial processes. One of the problems is that biotech and nanotech is so new and we are learning so far is that our research abilities have massively outstripped our abilities to turn them into practical applications. I won't win any nobel prizes for what I do, it is likely that most will never hear of me but I can still make a large difference and help make the world a little bit better.
My view is that if you never try you can never succeed.
There are a lot of positive things going on in this world that most people just never hear about. Negativity sells and that is what is mostly reported. However, the amount of research for things like nano-medicines, prognostics, biotech etc is just amazing.
10 years ago the state of the art prosthetic was basically a hook. Now we can do basic wiring up to the nervous system and in the last few months an artificial skin more sensitive than ours and a MUCH better neural interface where developed. I just don't get why so many people are so negative or consider it to be some kind of dream to want to try and improve the world in any way.
This is what I want. This is one of the reasons I went back to school and am almost done with a degree in chemical and biological engineering. I want BCI. I want to replace all my organic components with robotic ones once they get better. I love the idea of turning myself fully into a robot once that technology works and spending a VERY long time exploring, learning etc.
I would love it if I could get a job working on this project. Sure it will be used for military applications but a lot of the stuff developed for military applications later sees very useful civilian applications.
I doubt they will replace the ones they already have just to get that feature now. However those tablets will fail in time and need to be replaced and they might as well be replaced with something that real notes can be taken on.
I also have no idea if it is a good idea for the average student and almost certainly not in grade school.
In my engineering classes last year I had hundreds of pages of notes and the trying to keep track of all of them, work on homework and share that with other group members etc is pretty miserable with hand written notes. I am hoping the galaxy notes fixes that problem. It does have very nice recognition of math, shapes and text and the stuff I have written in it so far has worked very well.
If I do something from memory and accidents or worth deaths happen as a result what will happen is I would be found personally guilty of criminal negligence. It is NOT okay for an engineer to do formulas, values for constants etc from memory. Sure you can get away with it for a while but if anything happens it is your ass directly on the line.
Memorization is not required and it is dangerous to do. That is a primary way that people screw up. Your memory is not even close to perfect. You forget bits and pieces and worse your brain fills in the details. So you can be completely confident you remembered something correctly that is incorrect. It doesn't matter if I think I can memorize stuff well or badly, it is something that is negligent behavior and leads to serious problems. Doctors are probably the worse offenders of this right now which is why basic expert systems already do over 50% better at diagnosis and prescription at half the cost as measured by patient outcomes. No matter what you think humans should not be memorizing information, it is a waste.
Look at all the studies on the accuracy of eyewitness testimonies. It ends up basically being the same thing. Look it up every time, all the time. Have a computer keep track of details and have it so that you can just put in what you need (steam at given temp and pressure, some constant etc) and it looks it up.
So use something like a galaxy note 8, microsoft surface pro or any other tablet with an active pen and a wacom digitizer. Just because the VAST majority of tablets are crappy for notes does not mean that good ones don't exist.
Tablets can be great for notes. You just have to get one of the right ones.
It looks like the entire thing was just wrote memorization which is darn close to completely worthless. People took notes and then did a multiple choice exam to repeat back the information in the notes.
Honestly, with or without a computer I find it very hard to pay attention or care in any memorization based class. The experience is pointless since memorizing the information gives you nothing on how to really use it, how to evaluate if you are within bounds for something, out of bounds, at an unstable point etc.
That is why I like my engineering classes. They give us real problems on exams and expect us to solve them in a more realistic way at least. The exams are normally open book, notes, pretty darn advanced calculators etc and the problems are hard as hell. If you don't understand how to approach the problems, how to figure out how to do them you have no chance of solving them in time. You can't learn from the book as you go. However, during the exams you need to figure out what information you need that is not provided in the problem, look at up in the books in charts, tables, equations etc.
As a result your hand is not held at every step. You are not told you will need certain values from the steam tables, others from phase diagrams, other relationships or equilibriums etc. You are expected to figure that out just like you do in the real world.
During our classes laptops are great for notes. Most of our lectures are on practical problem solving and being able to look things up, use MATLAB or Excel to work on the problems etc is a huge gain and you have those later to refer to. One of the things our professors emphasize is to LOOK IT UP. If you do something from memorization and it is wrong you can get people killed in engineering. It takes almost no effort and time to look something up so look it up every single time.
The important things to learn in class are how to setup the problems, why you set them up that way, what boundaries you need to watch for, what does the answer mean etc. The actual mechanical cranking of solving the problem is something that you pretty much just hand to a computer now. Being able to solve a system of 40+ ODEs by hand is not a useful skill. You will screw that up and you will waste a lot of time getting stuck in the details instead of learning how understand the system and how stable it is.
I have not liked how little regulation he supports. There are many things I feel should be regulated because the damage caused is greater than a company is worth and more than can be cleaned up. I don't like the ideas of companies having massive environmental disasters (like the gulf oil spill) and never having to actually clean up all the damage and pay everyone impacted for their losses.
The problem is that nobody has anywhere close to enough money to do that. As a result we need regulations to prevent it since companies certainly won't regulate themselves.
I feel the same way about many medical things where companies have been found to know of horrible problems that would kill their patients and they pay a fine that is a tiny fraction of what they made off of the sales.
Overall I would probably be happier in Canada or a scandinavian country.
This one I can completely understand. Overall I think the Democrats are pretty bad but the Republicans seem to be completely insane. For whatever reason the Republicans are running to the extremes of their base and I just can't support many of the things they do.
All the attacks on voting, gay rights, women, science etc I just find to be far too much for me to stomach.
I would not mind an actual pretty old style republican that was fiscal conservative, more militarily conservative (don't get us into any conflicts unless actually necessary which the recent ones have not been) and what currently qualifies as socially liberal. I do find it strange though that the party that talks about getting government out of your life focuses so much government time on trying to control how people live. I would have expected the conservative view to be that government should have nothing to do with any sexual orientation in a marriage since it is a contract law issue, that abortions are between you and your doctor and government should not be involved and that environmental laws would be easily enforced by land owners against those that have polluted their lands.
It seems we had republicans start the EPA and to me mind it seems like a conservative idea that has been all twisted up.
Mostly I want the country out of the various conflicts, to stop meddling in middle eastern countries as much as possible, to focus on education, infrastructure, scientific development and modern manufacturing systems and to leave the moral stuff up to individuals. I don't care what your orientation is, if you want an abortion or not, what your religious beliefs are or if you want to do drugs that don't harm others I just care if you can get whatever work you are doing done safely.
For this kind of application I can't think of anything better. OneNote is probably the best note taking app out there and the surface pro and a real digitizer and a digital pen so you can take good notes with it.
I picked up a galaxy note 8 for my engineering classes (since it also has a digitizer) and for what I do it works very well. I would have gotten a surface pro except that they are so much more expensive.
For any class where you have drawings it is hard to beat a tablet with a real digitizer. I used to type all my notes and that was harder to do as my engineering classes ended up with more and more diagrams. I also did not want to deal with pen and paper anymore since it is so hard to deal with it, find stuff in it, keep track of it, share information etc.
You can also look at other windows 8 tablets (NOT windows RT) and find ones with real digitizers (preferably wacom) and digital pens. There are some lenovo ones that are supposed to be nice.
After citizen's united there is no real chance of campaign finance reform.
Do you know how many decades people worked for in various states to get campaign finance reform at the state level and to have it wiped out in a single instant by the supreme court.
Do you have any idea how difficult it will be to get this fixed at the federal level since it would require a constitutional amendment. Corporations will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to defeat it and that much money will win. They will have studies that play everywhere constantly about how great it is that money is the same as speech etc.
Oh god if phones get that feature I hope I can turn it off.
This whole social networking, blogging, sharing videos, photos etc thing is not for me.
What I can see happening though is our technology for implants is getting better very very quickly. More quickly than pretty much any person has any clue about. If you could get a neural implant to do IO (keyboard, mouse, audio, video) then it would be pretty feasible to run some pretty nice games on a cell phone with full immersion and then all that storage space would be very nice to have.
I can see a world where we carry around mobile devices that connect to our implants and we dock those devices to give them more power to work with.
This is wrong no matter who does it. However, what can we really do to stop this kind of behavior? The side with the most money wins elections and with the citizens united ruling there is no way to ever match what a company can for money there seems to be no real chance of getting better politicians. It seems that every group that wants to fix politics is quickly coopted and twisted..
How can we actually get real leaders that don't do this? My state had some of the toughest election laws in the county and within one year of citizens united that was mostly burned to the ground. The price of elections went up by over a factor of 10x and a LOT of pro-corporate people got it in some very nasty campaigns. If you can't even have clean city or state elections what chance is there for president?
The best I have seen so far for tablets is a galaxy note 10.1 or galaxy note 8. I picked up an 8 and so far it is working pretty well but there is still room for improvement.
The surface pro is supposed to work well for that also since it has an active digitizer. Overall though I would say the tablet makers are missing a huge market. They have something that is notepad to paper size and makes a good surface to write on but almost none of them support it.
The minerals, amino acids, sugars etc should all be stable in dried form. It should be very viable to create a healthy powdered drink that just requires adding water.
I don't actually care what other people think. The problem is that those things are not very good for you. Sure they are better than a lot of things but still not very good. I have not seen an actually researched and well designed meal replacement system. Most of what I have seen is just an attempt to trick people or made by people that really have no clue.
At least most of the meal replacement shakes I looked at were not really balanced around what your body needs on an ongoing basis. Sure you could replace a meal per day with them and not suffer much damage but not all your meals on an ongoing basis. I have also seen a lot of all natural ones and that is about all they have going for them since research and designed for long term usage did not go into them. Actually I am not worried about the all natural part at all. There are many chemicals we need that are easier for us to absorb in versions that are not what are normally found in nature and vastly cheaper to make.
We are just chemical robots. I am just looking for a better chemical supply to keep this body working efficiently until I can get it replaced.
Do you know anyplace that actually really makes meal sticks or something like that. I have actually looked at all the ones I can find are very poorly researched in terms of nutrition. They just go for natural ingredients and consider that healthy without any other testing.
I want a well researched meal replacement system that is actually healthy long term and simple.
I think at the grade school level this could be useful if used properly. At the university level it can definitely be good if used effectively.
I recently picked up a galaxy note 8 for taking notes on in my engineering classes. Last semester I had so many diagrams I had to write in class that it was hard to keep taking notes on a laptop and ended up with hundreds of pages of notes and homework work. Overall with that many pages it is too easy to lose things or find things.
From my experiments with the note so far it looks like it can easily do the job. Handwriting recognition for equations, diagrams etc and the ability to export to a pdf file that can be shared over google drive. I have not tried the indexed searching part yet.
This seems like the right way to do notes for school. You can even annotate pdf files easily which is useful. However using a tablet for school that doesn't have real pen input seems like mostly just a waste.
I think we have minions. :)
The problem is that I don't visualize at all. When I close my eyes I don't see any pictures. No dreams in pictures, thinking in pictures etc. Doing this kind of stuff is just not something I can do.
I can think of very complex problems in ways that others think of as very strange though but lead to very elegant solutions. I tend to be extremely good at taking something apart in my mind and turning it into a computer simulation or solve it in a very unorthodox and simple way.
I tried to learn to visualize things, so far I have not made any progress on that.
I looked at these tests and tried to figure it out for a bit but unless I actually cut those things out and folded them up there is just no way I could figure those things out. For some reason I just can't visualize at all. I don't think in pictures or dream in pictures. I am definitely creative though based on what I have done and others evaluations of what I have done. I often come up with unique ways to solve problems that others just can't figure out how they work even after they see them work.
Overall there are many ways to solve problems and confining creative problem solving to an ability to visualize problems would do us all a great disservice. What matters is developing the talents you have and figuring out how to really use them effectively.
It is great that we are learning this stuff. However nanoparticles are not in general good or bad, they are an entire class of molecules that are on the scale of a nanometer. Some will be good, some will be bad and the more we can learn about this the better off we are. There are some we have found that tend to concentrate in certain cell types and may help or harm the cell depending on what they are.
This is an area that needs a massive amount of effort and research. I suspect that many of the illnesses that people have now are actually caused by naturally occurring nanoparticles and that the cures for them is likely to be found in other types of nanoparticles.
What I don't get is why anyone that wants to be green would support natural gas. Sure you cut down on CO2 but natural gas is leaky as hell and methane is VASTLY worse in the atmosphere than CO2. It just makes no sense at all.
Overall my view is that regardless of if global warming is happening or not the burning of fossil fuels has got to go. Combustion at the same level we breathe is not good for us regardless of the impact on the environment. The particulates released are not very good either.
What I support is much better insulation and efficiency along with using power systems that make the most actual sense. In terms of total environmental damage over their entire lifetime vs cost the best I see right now is nuclear power. I would like to see us get fusion working but for right now fission is at least better than any fossil fuels and more reliable and lower impact than wind and solar.
Yeah that is pretty bad. I wonder how someone got that far in life and had never encountered a graph before. Unless you are blind I wonder how you even get out of grade school without using graphs at least sometimes.
What about the wifi is user hostile? So far for me I have not encountered problems with a 521 with the wifi. Even the wifi calling works fine. I have multiple wifi connections setup and when I walk in range it auto connects and the phone switches over to wifi mode automatically. What else is there for wifi to do?
I have downloaded podcasts, streaming music etc just fine along with a few apps and streamed videos without problems over wifi.