James Burke's "Connections" and perhaps "The Day The Universe Changed". How small incidents can create massive changes - Napoleon's near defeat at Marengo starts the path to refrigeration, how a botched souvenir production run and an grousing cleric leads to a revolution in printing and religion. Etc. Also "The Second Self" by Sherry Turkle - to see how an emerging thread in technology can have implications elsewhere. Yes, many sc-ifi books have done this predictively, but again it's valuable to see how this plays out as it plays out with a historical record.
Jack Bauer and his pals already have 3D maps and schematics of every power plant, office building, warehouse, outhouse and chicken shack. Not to mention full control of the power, network and hot and cold water taps in each of them. And all in the time it takes Chloe to recalibrate the beam forming firewall protocols against the binary-coded output logs. Or something.
Heck, even following their rules results in abandoned purchases. Early-adopter the user end of Adobe Digital Editions. Freak show. Bloated install? Check. Mobo swap? DRM dies. HD upgrade? DRM dies. Resolving this? Days of back and forth proving who I was, explaining why I needed a larger hard drive... Tried it again this past year, thinking sure a large company like Adobe had learned their lesson from tolerable eBook implementations (Kindle, iBooks...) Nope. $100 worth of purchased books are still dead.
The organization is wonderful - clicking through serial maps of settlements, the movement of slave populations, native populations, transportation modes is incredibly informative. When my grandparents we born there were two - count'em - two - actual cities in Arizona. No wonder they stayed in New England. What happened between 1800 and 1810 in LA that moves slaves there? Or the same in TX from 1840-1850?
Yes, we've come a long way in cancer treatment, and some ways in cancer detection. Problem is that there are some cancers that start very small, and move faster than the annual physical. The bean counters are standing in the way of the ultrasounds that can in fact see small tumors sooner than CT. The rationale is that (2) it costs a lot to screen false positives and (2) it makes people worry more. I have news for you - after losing two immediate family members way too soon to cancers that were only discovered once the symptoms got dangerous, something needs to change. Too often we're not finding cancer when it starts but rather when it displaces and entire organ or produces blood. I'll take 6 months of worrying and a middling increase in cost to find out it it was nothing over ten or 50 years of death.
Some as a pro Some as a hobby / interesting thing to know Many just enough to know when you're being tweaked by a HW or SW salesperson (So does this include USB3? Yup. iEEE1394? Sure. Full LRF support? Absolutely!) (We have to have the pro package - this one doesn't do.MID to.OBJ - and it'll be extra two weeks of training.)
...it really doesn't need to be justified. It's a leash. Like your Sam's, BJ's or Costco membership. It makes you want to buy more stuff at Amazon (on account of you don't want to waste that $80 you handed them) and they make it all up on volume and margins. No way the $80 ever offset the shipping in any reasonable fashion. I get free shipping from Bean's and pay nothing up front for it.
They do need to get more money though, if only to replace the drones that will no doubt be used for plinking practice by the neighbor kids.
First, if your circadian rhythm is so exquisitely timed (and it is), why use a watch that arbitrarily cuts the day into four parts?
Second, there is no reason to believe that smelling things four times a day can synchronize your rhythms.
Third, these are "homeopathic" doses of the magic stuff she claims works. Sniffing a minute whiff of caffeine in the air around you has an indistinguishable-from-zero effect. Were it otherwise, heart patients would have a tough time walking past a Starbucks.
Finally, you can get a Ph.D. for writing this: "Does our psychological perception of scent- e.g. incense= relax, coffee= wake up, directly related to the chemical synapses they induce?"
John visited our science center years back, asked us for an old 8" floppy to tear apart and improve the mount action on our big DIY Dob. Signed it too. We also brought him to our mountaintop sundial that at 18' across is the "sun" for a 2" earth-scale solar system that goes out ~14 miles. We were pointing out the landmarks for the planets, and he started pacing. Dang. We figured we bored him with our little project. We asked him what was wrong. He said "Nothing - but watch this," He walked the diameter of the "sun" while counting "1..2..3..4.. See?! I can cross your sun's diameter in the same four seconds it takes light to travel the 865,000 mile diameter of the real sun - so on your model, walking is the scaled speed of light!" In ten years, a dozen of us had never thought of that. Bonus is when we have students do the annual bicycle "Tour de Solar System" on the local rail trails, we can tell them they're pedaling at warp 3 or whatnot...
It's that sort of thinking that wastes time and effort and money. Mechanistic o-chem is a valuable precursor to biochem. Most of what's in a 300 level p-chem course will never have any practical use in patient-level medicine. And most of what is relevant/ visible in an MD's day is easily covered in a 300-level biochem course. Too many university plans are holdovers from OCD planning that requires everyone to learn in unison, a semester at a time, with a goal of sitting in a lawn chair with a funny hat on a day in May. I'll gladly sit in the chair with a hat for three hours on day one if you can let me get done and get on with my life.
...who went into education after seeing what was/wasn't working in both fields...
I loved undergrad organic chem. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. It was a system used to unlock a puzzle. I still have all my notebooks and routinely lead my students down the garden path and then try and stump them with hexamethyl chicken wire.
My central issue with it was the nature of needing a whole year in order to do biology. First semester was unlocking the system and working out structures, many of which you will see in an actual living creature. Second semester was petroleum industry chem. Which you rarely see in an actual living creature. My context was US small liberal arts college ending in 1980, mainstream year-long textbook, but from that experience I'd recommend first semester mandatory for all biologists, then on to biochem. Which nowadays likely needs three semesters in order to prep you for current genetics / epigenetics / cell signaling, etc. that's exploded since then.
Right on. Bully. And as we all know, poor design portends end-user doom. These pathetic hacks will be lucky if they ever sell more than three tickets to the producer's three kids for this parade of dreck. And forget merchandising - it'll be a brief stopover at Dollar Tree and then to some banana republic orphanage along with the Superbowl-losing ball caps. Yes, what WERE they thinking?
Flash has become the 4-cyl Hummer of the information superhighway. I don't want to sit behind a lumbering behemoth. I want info. I want it at a reasonable speed. I don't want to head over to some site and find out that it takes several minutes to get through what they want you to see and are patting themselves on the back for creating. speedtest.net is a great example of this. And very ironical. A minute of gratuitous painfully slow flash animation to get to run a 10 sec test of my connection speed. Just give me a list and let me click it.
If Flash went away tomorrow it would be no great loss and speed up the web user experience significantly.
Java however is a puzzlement for iPhone. My low-end Motorola L2 can run it - Apple should have had this done eons ago.
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James Burke's "Connections" and perhaps "The Day The Universe Changed". How small incidents can create massive changes - Napoleon's near defeat at Marengo starts the path to refrigeration, how a botched souvenir production run and an grousing cleric leads to a revolution in printing and religion. Etc. Also "The Second Self" by Sherry Turkle - to see how an emerging thread in technology can have implications elsewhere. Yes, many sc-ifi books have done this predictively, but again it's valuable to see how this plays out as it plays out with a historical record.
Will cut a lot of nonsense out of reading stuff into the results.
...for the shop that has the lumbars to name their next 3D printer "Slarti Jr."
Jack Bauer and his pals already have 3D maps and schematics of every power plant, office building, warehouse, outhouse and chicken shack. Not to mention full control of the power, network and hot and cold water taps in each of them. And all in the time it takes Chloe to recalibrate the beam forming firewall protocols against the binary-coded output logs. Or something.
Heck, even following their rules results in abandoned purchases. Early-adopter the user end of Adobe Digital Editions. Freak show. Bloated install? Check. Mobo swap? DRM dies. HD upgrade? DRM dies. Resolving this? Days of back and forth proving who I was, explaining why I needed a larger hard drive... Tried it again this past year, thinking sure a large company like Adobe had learned their lesson from tolerable eBook implementations (Kindle, iBooks...) Nope. $100 worth of purchased books are still dead.
The organization is wonderful - clicking through serial maps of settlements, the movement of slave populations, native populations, transportation modes is incredibly informative. When my grandparents we born there were two - count'em - two - actual cities in Arizona. No wonder they stayed in New England. What happened between 1800 and 1810 in LA that moves slaves there? Or the same in TX from 1840-1850?
Yes, we've come a long way in cancer treatment, and some ways in cancer detection. Problem is that there are some cancers that start very small, and move faster than the annual physical. The bean counters are standing in the way of the ultrasounds that can in fact see small tumors sooner than CT. The rationale is that (2) it costs a lot to screen false positives and (2) it makes people worry more. I have news for you - after losing two immediate family members way too soon to cancers that were only discovered once the symptoms got dangerous, something needs to change. Too often we're not finding cancer when it starts but rather when it displaces and entire organ or produces blood. I'll take 6 months of worrying and a middling increase in cost to find out it it was nothing over ten or 50 years of death.
Some as a pro .MID to .OBJ - and it'll be extra two weeks of training.)
Some as a hobby / interesting thing to know
Many just enough to know when you're being tweaked by a HW or SW salesperson
(So does this include USB3? Yup. iEEE1394? Sure. Full LRF support? Absolutely!)
(We have to have the pro package - this one doesn't do
...it really doesn't need to be justified. It's a leash. Like your Sam's, BJ's or Costco membership. It makes you want to buy more stuff at Amazon (on account of you don't want to waste that $80 you handed them) and they make it all up on volume and margins. No way the $80 ever offset the shipping in any reasonable fashion. I get free shipping from Bean's and pay nothing up front for it.
They do need to get more money though, if only to replace the drones that will no doubt be used for plinking practice by the neighbor kids.
The one who dies with the most animal-emblazoned O'Reilly books on their shelf wins.
First, if your circadian rhythm is so exquisitely timed (and it is), why use a watch that arbitrarily cuts the day into four parts?
Second, there is no reason to believe that smelling things four times a day can synchronize your rhythms.
Third, these are "homeopathic" doses of the magic stuff she claims works. Sniffing a minute whiff of caffeine in the air around you has an indistinguishable-from-zero effect. Were it otherwise, heart patients would have a tough time walking past a Starbucks.
Finally, you can get a Ph.D. for writing this: "Does our psychological perception of scent- e.g. incense= relax, coffee= wake up, directly related to the chemical synapses they induce?"
Yikes.
"I will go up to the six-fingered admin and say. Hello. My name is I/O Montoya. You killed my data. Prepare to die."
...and thinking what no one else has thought.
John visited our science center years back, asked us for an old 8" floppy to tear apart and improve the mount action on our big DIY Dob. Signed it too. We also brought him to our mountaintop sundial that at 18' across is the "sun" for a 2" earth-scale solar system that goes out ~14 miles. We were pointing out the landmarks for the planets, and he started pacing. Dang. We figured we bored him with our little project. We asked him what was wrong. He said "Nothing - but watch this," He walked the diameter of the "sun" while counting "1..2..3..4.. See?! I can cross your sun's diameter in the same four seconds it takes light to travel the 865,000 mile diameter of the real sun - so on your model, walking is the scaled speed of light!" In ten years, a dozen of us had never thought of that. Bonus is when we have students do the annual bicycle "Tour de Solar System" on the local rail trails, we can tell them they're pedaling at warp 3 or whatnot...
Most companies don't create IP. They move it, repackage it, interpret it, show it... But make it? Mostly no.
It's that sort of thinking that wastes time and effort and money. Mechanistic o-chem is a valuable precursor to biochem. Most of what's in a 300 level p-chem course will never have any practical use in patient-level medicine. And most of what is relevant/ visible in an MD's day is easily covered in a 300-level biochem course. Too many university plans are holdovers from OCD planning that requires everyone to learn in unison, a semester at a time, with a goal of sitting in a lawn chair with a funny hat on a day in May. I'll gladly sit in the chair with a hat for three hours on day one if you can let me get done and get on with my life.
...who went into education after seeing what was/wasn't working in both fields...
I loved undergrad organic chem. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. It was a system used to unlock a puzzle. I still have all my notebooks and routinely lead my students down the garden path and then try and stump them with hexamethyl chicken wire.
My central issue with it was the nature of needing a whole year in order to do biology. First semester was unlocking the system and working out structures, many of which you will see in an actual living creature. Second semester was petroleum industry chem. Which you rarely see in an actual living creature. My context was US small liberal arts college ending in 1980, mainstream year-long textbook, but from that experience I'd recommend first semester mandatory for all biologists, then on to biochem. Which nowadays likely needs three semesters in order to prep you for current genetics / epigenetics / cell signaling, etc. that's exploded since then.
... welcome our current reigning overlord champion.
This is nothing. What's next - the labor department will be dispatched to Don Marquis' office?
...at the Fraunhofer facility. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
"TouchStudio aims to bring 'the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone.' "
So Integer BASIC and assembler? Pinch me.
I was going to go with self-destructing sticky notes, disappearing-ink sticky notes, but yours is elegant in its simplicity.
Right on. Bully. And as we all know, poor design portends end-user doom. These pathetic hacks will be lucky if they ever sell more than three tickets to the producer's three kids for this parade of dreck. And forget merchandising - it'll be a brief stopover at Dollar Tree and then to some banana republic orphanage along with the Superbowl-losing ball caps. Yes, what WERE they thinking?
Yet another thing that will somehow managed to be blamed on Barack Obama and the Democrat Congress.
Where's Zefram Cochrane when you need him?
Oh yeah - likely passed out.
mac, current leopard. 30 sec gratuituous animation on a g4 1.33, 16 sec on a g5. just to draw a map. with worthless animations.
why use flash at all just to let me choose a test server from a 90% static list off a database?
when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
my problem with java is much less, as it scales down to something like my simple L2 and scales up to run its parts of neooffice quite well.
Flash has become the 4-cyl Hummer of the information superhighway. I don't want to sit behind a lumbering behemoth. I want info. I want it at a reasonable speed. I don't want to head over to some site and find out that it takes several minutes to get through what they want you to see and are patting themselves on the back for creating. speedtest.net is a great example of this. And very ironical. A minute of gratuitous painfully slow flash animation to get to run a 10 sec test of my connection speed. Just give me a list and let me click it.
If Flash went away tomorrow it would be no great loss and speed up the web user experience significantly.
Java however is a puzzlement for iPhone. My low-end Motorola L2 can run it - Apple should have had this done eons ago.