They don't exactly carry the May issue of "Physical Review E" on the local newsstands, and the press release came out this month, so nobody knew about it... so no, it couldn't have helped to predict anything.
Plus they already knew how much the levees could hold. Katrina exceeded that.
(Yes, it weakened to a Cat 3 as it made landfall, but it was for all intents and purposes a Cat 4 storm as it approached, storm surge and all.)
Which is a great technical advance...
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"Mitnick was arrested in 1995 by the FBI for hacking. He served five years in prison, including eight months in solitary confinement after it was alleged that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone."...following the previous 40 years of whistling past the graveyard to deal with nuclear missiles.
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Um, yeah - cuz that rank amateur nutball Jobs has just done nothing but drive that Apple startup and all its originality into the ground for the past decade...
The person you HAD to worry about (Eisner) is gone. Now THAT was a reality distortion field.
You could scribble "lunch with bob monday" and it would start a calendar event, and bet that you meant the next monday, at noon, and the bob you referenced the most frequently, and you could correct it if you meant some other bob...
And that was 1.0 My palm can't do that today. neither can my mac.
1. The actual auction says all they have is a drawing of one, the first one won't be built until it's ordered, he hasn't built one yet, and it's your keister if it breaks. I'll pass.
2. Isn't there a way to build a stylus that can be used on a trackpad? Granted it's not a great space to draw in, but I'd grab a $29 stylus for occasional Photoshop etc. use rather than a $100 drawing pad that has to be lugged... IANAEE so this to me is like Asimov's calculator - but I know I'd line my pockets with them if I were running a laptop-based lab / school / etc...
Maybe you can fix a PowerBook for time and $80 drive - great. Tha majority of people can't. And trying alone often causes more problems - like the costs of hinge clutches and small parts that are hard to get your hands on outside of a real Apple repair shop. DIY Apple repair posts are full of "...have a couple of these handy - you'll probably break one or two..." I kept my Duo and 1400 going long after AppleCare on my own, but they're tough to bring back to 100% unless you have other parts - at the time my lab was able to get repair parts from Apple, but no more. Now it's eBay, PowerBookGuy, etc...
AppleCare costs $240 ($180 if you can somehow be an academic) and covers everything that goes wrong. Buy it on day 364 of your purchase, and for $10 ($6) a month, you'll never have to worry. And from the looks of these numbers, you have to worry more than most people would want.
It's the first extended warrranty that I'd ever consider buying - given the complexity of these things and the tiers of costs for Apple laptop repairs.
why in the name of all that is good and bad do people leave the bloody stickers on their computers - especially laptops? A year later and you've got ratty tatters of these things on the palmrests. PULL THEM OFF.
Cuz his site's RIVETING http://www.useit.com/ Including "Permanent Content" that only goes back to November 7...
I stopped reading after this:
Why This Site Has Almost No Graphics Download times rule the Web, and since most users have access speeds on the order of 28.8 kbps, Web pages can be no more than 3 KB if they are to download in one second which is the required response time for hypertext navigation. Users do not keep their attention on the page if downloading exceeds 10 seconds, corresponding to 30 KB at modem speed. Keeping below these size limits rules out most graphics...
You're preaching to the choir - in 1970 I was 12 years old and the Andromeda Strain came out in paperback. I read - and reread it until it literally fell apart. I have never not had a copy at hand. There has not been a year in my teaching career that I have not used one of its lessons, from the use of sentinel values 'fail-safe' systems to the fluidity of evolution to the magnification of the problem caused by a stray shred of paper...
It was a joke, but we do need to remember the amazing efficiency of simple organisms. E.g., there's a circular plasmd - I believe it's for SV40 but it's been a while - where one side of the gene sequence codes for some useful protein in one part of the virus - and the remaining half of the helix - usually considered simply the logical compliment of the useful code - ALSO codes for other parts of the virus. Amazing.
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this is nonceklse - ive;benen using my cebll phone for yearsnow and theresno obsevvable effecsts.
They don't exactly carry the May issue of "Physical Review E" on the local newsstands, and the press release came out this month, so nobody knew about it... so no, it couldn't have helped to predict anything.
Plus they already knew how much the levees could hold. Katrina exceeded that.
(Yes, it weakened to a Cat 3 as it made landfall, but it was for all intents and purposes a Cat 4 storm as it approached, storm surge and all.)
Jes' wondering.
"Mitnick was arrested in 1995 by the FBI for hacking. He served five years in prison, including eight months in solitary confinement after it was alleged that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone." ...following the previous 40 years of whistling past the graveyard to deal with nuclear missiles.
Um, yeah - cuz that rank amateur nutball Jobs has just done nothing but drive that Apple startup and all its originality into the ground for the past decade...
The person you HAD to worry about (Eisner) is gone. Now THAT was a reality distortion field.
insert rimshot here.
... tell me just how much money they spend to find out what there's ten copies of in every Jr. high science fair?
Keyboards are the new doorknob. Swab them onto a petrie dish, add project board, voila - instant redundant science fair project.
OK maybe the kiddos don't all do serial dilutions and colony counts, but it's scary nonetheless.
period.
i dare them to go after everyone who uses baseball stats.
they'll die of malnutrition try to track everyone down in the first round.
forcing guaranteed impracticality is certain insanity.
somebody please tell lewis black that something this stupid is happening.
You could scribble "lunch with bob monday" and it would start a calendar event, and bet that you meant the next monday, at noon, and the bob you referenced the most frequently, and you could correct it if you meant some other bob...
And that was 1.0 My palm can't do that today. neither can my mac.
aside from the early handwriting recognition woes and their dissing of graffitti,
the newton OS did some amazing things for a handheld, things others till haven't tried to do with the power of a decent laptop.
i'd love to see what they could do with it updated and with ten more years of evolution in how we think about imfo and OSs
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"Arthur is Dead" - Spam
n.b.: for you youngun's out there, this is a play on a 1970's bumper sticker:
"God Is Dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche Is Dead" - God
1. The actual auction says all they have is a drawing of one, the first one won't be built until it's ordered, he hasn't built one yet, and it's your keister if it breaks. I'll pass.
2. Isn't there a way to build a stylus that can be used on a trackpad? Granted it's not a great space to draw in, but I'd grab a $29 stylus for occasional Photoshop etc. use rather than a $100 drawing pad that has to be lugged... IANAEE so this to me is like Asimov's calculator - but I know I'd line my pockets with them if I were running a laptop-based lab / school / etc...
if only because some of my students won't stop shining the mouse into the iSight...
reverse the polarity on the flux capacitor and use this for some mad WiFi?
"Our apologies The IBM developerWorks Web site is currently under maintenance.
Please try again later. Thank you."
Isn't that French for "we got slashdotted"?
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
Maybe you can fix a PowerBook for time and $80 drive - great. Tha majority of people can't. And trying alone often causes more problems - like the costs of hinge clutches and small parts that are hard to get your hands on outside of a real Apple repair shop. DIY Apple repair posts are full of "...have a couple of these handy - you'll probably break one or two..." I kept my Duo and 1400 going long after AppleCare on my own, but they're tough to bring back to 100% unless you have other parts - at the time my lab was able to get repair parts from Apple, but no more. Now it's eBay, PowerBookGuy, etc...
AppleCare costs $240 ($180 if you can somehow be an academic) and covers everything that goes wrong. Buy it on day 364 of your purchase, and for $10 ($6) a month, you'll never have to worry. And from the looks of these numbers, you have to worry more than most people would want.
It's the first extended warrranty that I'd ever consider buying - given the complexity of these things and the tiers of costs for Apple laptop repairs.
this was all known by some - the author just learned them this year.
e.g., millions of chiliheads and foodies know what scovilles are.
the article and post imply "we" as in this was all knew klnowledge to "us" the human race this year.
why in the name of all that is good and bad do people leave the bloody stickers on their computers - especially laptops? A year later and you've got ratty tatters of these things on the palmrests. PULL THEM OFF.
All done. Thanks.
dialup I can see - but we left 28.8 a loooong time ago.
Cuz his site's RIVETING http://www.useit.com/ Including "Permanent Content" that only goes back to November 7...
I stopped reading after this:
Why This Site Has Almost No Graphics
Download times rule the Web, and since most users have access speeds on the order of 28.8 kbps, Web pages can be no more than 3 KB if they are to download in one second which is the required response time for hypertext navigation. Users do not keep their attention on the page if downloading exceeds 10 seconds, corresponding to 30 KB at modem speed. Keeping below these size limits rules out most graphics...
You're preaching to the choir - in 1970 I was 12 years old and the Andromeda Strain came out in paperback. I read - and reread it until it literally fell apart. I have never not had a copy at hand. There has not been a year in my teaching career that I have not used one of its lessons, from the use of sentinel values 'fail-safe' systems to the fluidity of evolution to the magnification of the problem caused by a stray shred of paper...
It was a joke, but we do need to remember the amazing efficiency of simple organisms. E.g., there's a circular plasmd - I believe it's for SV40 but it's been a while - where one side of the gene sequence codes for some useful protein in one part of the virus - and the remaining half of the helix - usually considered simply the logical compliment of the useful code - ALSO codes for other parts of the virus. Amazing.
... welcome our new two-codon overlords.
they scurry at the sight of 100 foot tall reptiles and then their mouths stop working.
Americans on the other hand stare at any imminent danger like inquisitive puppies, waiting for their closeup.
Get Rumsfeld on this, stat!