Geocaching has been around for some time. It should be a lot easier, now that Selective Availability is turned off.
Another one of these GPS hunts is the degree confluence project. The object is to log integer longtitude/latitude positions with a GPS and to get a picture of that location.
I think the ideal resolution for this court case would have been to find MP3.com guilty as charged, but set aside the damages until the RIAA supplied a viable, approved method of distributing digital music via the
While there is indeed a big demand for better distribution of music via the internet, this is entirely up to the record companies to decide. You can't legally force the way they want to distribute their music.
You are _so_ wrong. What CS deptartments lack in quantity, they well than make up for in quality.
I was indeed refering to the quantity of women in CS depts., and not the quality. The former being given by enrollment numbers, while the latter is in the eye of the beholder...
Yes. Picture it. Spend your days on a college campus, teaching classes on the history of computers. You just come up with some random BS thesis on the ways in which computers have affected and changed society, and run with it.
The advantages? It's tough to get a job as a colleger professor, but once you do, you're good to go. Plus, you spend the rest of your life around college-age women.
While perhaps funny, I don't see how this comment in any way could be marked Insightful. Generally you do not get a tenured position at a school based on a random bullshit thesis. Or it would be at such a crummy school that you're stuck for the rest of your life in a crappy job, with no perspective on anything better.
If hanging around college-age women is your motive, you're (1) In the wrong department (have you ever looked around at the average CS dept? and (2) Into teaching for all the wrong reasons.
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These are just a few. But Hollywood rarely gets anything technical right. Silenced revolvers, picking locks in 5 seconds, and cars that blow up whenever the gas tank is punctured are some others.
I guess that's what happens when art students try do "be realistic".
Chill out. Movies would either be slow (yeah, let's make the lock picking scene 30 minutes) or boring (hero jumps from train and is either dead or severely handicapped for the rest of the movie).
Besides, I generally prefer art students "being realistic" over engineers being artistic:-)
With all the commercialization, the spirit and ideals of the "modern Olympics" as initially proposed by Pierre de Coubertin are completely lost. First politics killed the olympic spirit, followed shortly by commercialization; why only allow amateur athletes if professional ones sell a lot better?
Nominations for host cities have been corrupted by crooked IOC bozo's taking bribes, or hosting is simply turned over to the highest bidder. E.g. with Coke as official sponsor, Atlanta simply could not lose hosting the "Coca Cola games".
I'm not against the Olympics, but against the hypocrisy of the IOC abusing the original intentions and spirit of the Games, just out of commercial interest.
My experience with CO2 is using it to knock out rats for short times, and it scares the hell out of me. 4, maybe 5 seconds flat and the rat's knocked out. They wake up after 2 minutes if you take them out and are just fine, but leaving them exposed for maybe 30 seconds would kill them. I can picture a horrible domino effect in the laboratory, where you pass out and someone walks in and sees you there, tries to help you but they pass out as well... BTW I have to post anonymously so that PETA doesn't hunt me down and kill me.
Are you sure you are not talking about nitric oxide, instead of carbon dioxide? Nitric oxide is used as an anaesthetic, and would work in relatively low concentrations.
You would probably need pure carbon dioxide to knock out a rat, and it wouldn't be for a short time, but permanent. It would also be a horrible suffocating death, since it would drastically increase their breathing rate (is dependent on partial CO2 pressure in air).
If you did use CO2, PETA will have lots of reasons to hunt you down...
Where do you get frozen Carbon Dioxide? And isn't that a little dangerous to handle? What happens if somehow it malfunctions and you get deadly carbon dioxide released into your room.
It is not that dangerous, considering that you exhale it every time... You should be more worried about touching it, since it could give you nasty frost bites. That is even more of a problem with the cooled ethanol, because of the better heat transfer (the sublimation of dry ice will actually prevent you from burning yourself upon short contact).
Now 10 liter of flammable liquids and electronic components that can spark or overheat (duh). That doesn't sound like something you would like to explain to the fire department.
Also the plastic bags is not a smart idea. Trapped air will reduce heat transfer, and a frozen bag gets brittle and breaks. Clearly the Fluorinert project was a lot better thought out (if only they had used dry ice instead of LN2).
2. Intel supplys ibm with processors for thier desktops. IBM wouldn't want to make them mad now, would they?
Ok, you're kidding, but I doubt that the first line of processors using this V-Groove technique will be used in desktop computers.
3. Theres no real mass market demand for it at the moment- as the article stated, there are very few things that your "average" computer user would need that would benefit from them releasing this chip. And no, 250frames/sec in quake 3 arena doesn't count.
There will ALWAYS be market for this, when the technology is ready for it, and people will line up to buy it, even if the prices seem outrageous. Think accurate long term weather prediction, strategic military simulations, and of course the NSA would be delighted if they can finally read your encrypted e-mail.
This breaktrough is just one of the many, many hurdles that have to be overcome, in order to get a product that can actually be manufatured.
But until recently, we clung loosely to the notion that some institutions -- politics, journalism, academe, art and culture -- stood outside the marketplace at least somewhat beyond bottom-line calculations. That was important, especially in a free and prosperous society
Corporate sponsoring, and mixed academic and commercial interests are nothing new, and will not go away. Corporate support is not necessarily evil, since it gives students a chance to do research on real-world issues, instead of some professor's pie-in-the-sky research project. Some corporate interaction may also give you a better chance of landing you a job when you graduate (talking from a graduate student's perspective now).
What really needs to be addressed is academic honesty. For instance, the New England Journal of Medicine recently had a big fight over some research that was sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, and the conclusions of the publications were clearly affected by this. This is not only the responsibility of the journals, but also of the universities, to verify the integrity of their employees and their work. This would also protect the students from being forced into writing corporate advertizement.
Jon, why did you have to use the paradigm shift buzzword???
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Another one of these GPS hunts is the degree confluence project. The object is to log integer longtitude/latitude positions with a GPS and to get a picture of that location.
If he were here today?
I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two,
That's what Brian Boitano'd do!
If hanging around college-age women is your motive, you're (1) In the wrong department (have you ever looked around at the average CS dept? and (2) Into teaching for all the wrong reasons.
Besides, I generally prefer art students "being realistic" over engineers being artistic :-)
OK, Quake IS already retro...
Nominations for host cities have been corrupted by crooked IOC bozo's taking bribes, or hosting is simply turned over to the highest bidder. E.g. with Coke as official sponsor, Atlanta simply could not lose hosting the "Coca Cola games".
I'm not against the Olympics, but against the hypocrisy of the IOC abusing the original intentions and spirit of the Games, just out of commercial interest.
"Because It's There" -- George Leigh Mallory
Ok, overclocking a CPU is not the same thing, but it sure is about as cold as on Everest :-)
You would probably need pure carbon dioxide to knock out a rat, and it wouldn't be for a short time, but permanent. It would also be a horrible suffocating death, since it would drastically increase their breathing rate (is dependent on partial CO2 pressure in air).
If you did use CO2, PETA will have lots of reasons to hunt you down...
HMMM, liquid oxygen. Also handy for overclocking your barbecue.
Now 10 liter of flammable liquids and electronic components that can spark or overheat (duh). That doesn't sound like something you would like to explain to the fire department.
Also the plastic bags is not a smart idea. Trapped air will reduce heat transfer, and a frozen bag gets brittle and breaks. Clearly the Fluorinert project was a lot better thought out (if only they had used dry ice instead of LN2).
Sure, the fact that you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you...
This breaktrough is just one of the many, many hurdles that have to be overcome, in order to get a product that can actually be manufatured.
I'm sorry that they blocked you from the Playboy Web site.
What really needs to be addressed is academic honesty. For instance, the New England Journal of Medicine recently had a big fight over some research that was sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, and the conclusions of the publications were clearly affected by this. This is not only the responsibility of the journals, but also of the universities, to verify the integrity of their employees and their work. This would also protect the students from being forced into writing corporate advertizement.
Jon, why did you have to use the paradigm shift buzzword???