> I think within the next few years, you'll see a 10" or 11" device that replaces the low-end Macbook Air, but has a form more resembling the iPad, with the ability to run full desktop apps.
That's already happened. You misspelled "iPad" however--the correct spelling is "Samsung Galaxy Tab"
This question has lingered in the back of my mind for many years. How do we know there aren't 10^(some huge fucking number) planet-sized objects just floating out there in interstellar space? Assuming they're out there, then it would follow maybe there are 10^(some slightly smaller number) objects out there with a temperature/composition/etc. that's conducive to life of some kind.
If the numbers are right, maybe those candidates outnumber the candidates that orbit stars?
While I'm guilty of some of these things myself, this piece reads like a check-it-out-I'm-a-Unix-Guru. Somehow I don't see most vi-using folks looking down on those who prefer Emacs.
> Andreessen said. 'These are all things we would have done (at Netscape) if we had known how people were going to use the Web.'
Yep, and if I had known how people were going to use the Web, I would have founded Google, Facebook, etc.
I honestly read the summary title as "Microsoft Hardware Demos Pleasure Sensitive Keyboard".
Needless to say I was very disturbed...
I read it with the correct words, but with different emphasis as in "Sensitive Keyboard feels pressure from Microsoft Hardware Demos."
I'm positive if I were a keyboard, sensitive or not, I would feel pressure from all those horrible Hardware Demos that Microsoft does, too.
I don't see it anywhere here yet so I'll throw it in...
I forget where I read this a few years ago -- maybe on Slashdot. It's been enormously helpful to me whenever I get "programmer's block"
Idea is to deliberately leave something "broken" at the end of the day: a line of CSS that isn't quite right, a SQL query that doesn't work, etc. Then when you start up the following day, you have something to work on and you're not struggling to find something to do, at least not at the start.
This works for me in two ways:
1) I'm starting off my day feeling productive and engaged, and I find the process of troubleshooting something causes a cascade effect in my mind when I'm coming up with other things to fix, modify, etc. Voila, I'm unstuck!
2) I find myself thinking overnight sometimes about that "broken" thing I have waiting for me in the morning. I'm consciously and unconsciously turning things over in my head, planning ahead to how I'll solve my problem. I'll oftentimes get to work charged up and ready to go because I've got this cool approach or something I want to try out. Sometimes I'll even have more plans queued up in my head, ready for me to tackle. Voila, sometimes I'm unstuck before I even get to work!
... he'd be standing on top of a table right now screaming about something, NASA shuttle in space or not. He was a pretty intense kind of guy who could get away with standing on tables, soap boxes, and other tall things.
True. He was a passionate guy who cared about things like that. He also had startling insight and an annoying habit of being right most of the time.
I doubt it matters how big the tiles are. The thermodynamic stress of reentry is unbelievably huge -- once plasma gets beneath the exterior there's almost nothing to stop it from going wherever it wants to go, including shearing adjacent tiles, the 'zipper' effect. All you need is a small hole probably like this one to get a chain reaction started.
Damage like this has probably been happening of most, if not all, launches since the beginning of the program. You can bet if Richard Feynman were alive today, he'd be standing on top of a table right now somewhere screaming about NASA playing 'Russian Roulette' or some such thing.
...everyone voted at a guaranteed same time, instead of across 4+ time zones where the open and close times for each polling station varies.
I recall one of the many controversies in the 2000 election in Florida was some people were staying home in the panhandle (Central Time) because they were being told by the TV talking heads that Florida was already decided (in the rest of the state, Eastern Time) and so their vote didn't count.
NBC's Tom Brokaw actually had an interesting idea -- have the polling take place over a two or three day weekend instead of Tuesday and have ALL the poll stations open and close at exactly the same time irrespective of time zone. That way you mitigate the 'my vote doesn't count' problem as well as making it more convenient for those of us who want to watch 'House MD' on Tuesday night.
IANAPE[ither], but I think your solution would be complicated by the fact that the dynamic range of a logarithmically sensitive medium is something on the order of a billion to one (or more).
So you would have to have a sensor with 30 or more bits resolution per channel (to match that dynamic range with a linearly sensitive sensor), from which you could then do the math to downconvert to make a logarithmic scale.
Lots of memory would be needed for that plus you'd have to have a very low S/N ratio, etc...
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> I think within the next few years, you'll see a 10" or 11" device that replaces the low-end Macbook Air, but has a form more resembling the iPad, with the ability to run full desktop apps.
That's already happened. You misspelled "iPad" however--the correct spelling is "Samsung Galaxy Tab"
> "Hack" as a language name? Really?
Because "Brainfuck" was already taken.
There's simpler example: bottled water, sold at gasoline prices.
Bottled water: $1.79/liter = ~6.38/gallon
Gasoline: $3.19/gallon
That gasoline pricing sounds like a better deal to me, at least this year.
Hey! The "purple monkey dishwasher" is MY thing!
Bleary eyed, but still pretty good at playing some older games.
The ESO astronomers are made of silica and alumina dust?
Anthony Weiner imaged himself, too.
> on two round-trips from the U.S. mainland to Tahiti to catch last summer's total eclipse of the sun
Two round trips to see one event lasting six minutes (or less)? Either those jets are *really* fast or Page and Brin took separate planes.
This question has lingered in the back of my mind for many years. How do we know there aren't 10^(some huge fucking number) planet-sized objects just floating out there in interstellar space? Assuming they're out there, then it would follow maybe there are 10^(some slightly smaller number) objects out there with a temperature/composition/etc. that's conducive to life of some kind.
If the numbers are right, maybe those candidates outnumber the candidates that orbit stars?
While I'm guilty of some of these things myself, this piece reads like a check-it-out-I'm-a-Unix-Guru. Somehow I don't see most vi-using folks looking down on those who prefer Emacs.
From the Dilbert: http://theory.sinp.msu.ru/~shamardin/dilbert.png
> Andreessen said. 'These are all things we would have done (at Netscape) if we had known how people were going to use the Web.' Yep, and if I had known how people were going to use the Web, I would have founded Google, Facebook, etc.
Go a step further -- tell other people to write books.
I honestly read the summary title as "Microsoft Hardware Demos Pleasure Sensitive Keyboard".
Needless to say I was very disturbed...
I read it with the correct words, but with different emphasis as in "Sensitive Keyboard feels pressure from Microsoft Hardware Demos." I'm positive if I were a keyboard, sensitive or not, I would feel pressure from all those horrible Hardware Demos that Microsoft does, too.
...read the first two words of this article as "George Will"? I gotta stop watching ABC News so much.
I don't see it anywhere here yet so I'll throw it in...
I forget where I read this a few years ago -- maybe on Slashdot. It's been enormously helpful to me whenever I get "programmer's block"
Idea is to deliberately leave something "broken" at the end of the day: a line of CSS that isn't quite right, a SQL query that doesn't work, etc. Then when you start up the following day, you have something to work on and you're not struggling to find something to do, at least not at the start.
This works for me in two ways:
1) I'm starting off my day feeling productive and engaged, and I find the process of troubleshooting something causes a cascade effect in my mind when I'm coming up with other things to fix, modify, etc. Voila, I'm unstuck!
2) I find myself thinking overnight sometimes about that "broken" thing I have waiting for me in the morning. I'm consciously and unconsciously turning things over in my head, planning ahead to how I'll solve my problem. I'll oftentimes get to work charged up and ready to go because I've got this cool approach or something I want to try out. Sometimes I'll even have more plans queued up in my head, ready for me to tackle. Voila, sometimes I'm unstuck before I even get to work!
I wonder how well it'll do at Anal bum cover.
I think "Anal bum jacket" is way funnier...
I got my 5-year-old nephew interested in the Fantastic Contraption http://fantasticcontraption.com/
It's just his speed for learning about physics and problem solving and he gets all beside himself every time he solves a level.
...'George Will Anonymizes IP Logs Faster'?
I gotta loosen my bow tie a bit and get back to work.
...who read that as "Apple's Missed Opportunity with Leonard Nimoy"?
... he'd be standing on top of a table right now screaming about something, NASA shuttle in space or not. He was a pretty intense kind of guy who could get away with standing on tables, soap boxes, and other tall things.
True. He was a passionate guy who cared about things like that. He also had startling insight and an annoying habit of being right most of the time.
I doubt it matters how big the tiles are. The thermodynamic stress of reentry is unbelievably huge -- once plasma gets beneath the exterior there's almost nothing to stop it from going wherever it wants to go, including shearing adjacent tiles, the 'zipper' effect. All you need is a small hole probably like this one to get a chain reaction started.
Damage like this has probably been happening of most, if not all, launches since the beginning of the program. You can bet if Richard Feynman were alive today, he'd be standing on top of a table right now somewhere screaming about NASA playing 'Russian Roulette' or some such thing.
...everyone voted at a guaranteed same time, instead of across 4+ time zones where the open and close times for each polling station varies.
I recall one of the many controversies in the 2000 election in Florida was some people were staying home in the panhandle (Central Time) because they were being told by the TV talking heads that Florida was already decided (in the rest of the state, Eastern Time) and so their vote didn't count.
NBC's Tom Brokaw actually had an interesting idea -- have the polling take place over a two or three day weekend instead of Tuesday and have ALL the poll stations open and close at exactly the same time irrespective of time zone. That way you mitigate the 'my vote doesn't count' problem as well as making it more convenient for those of us who want to watch 'House MD' on Tuesday night.
...will they blend?
e &video=iphone
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsaf
Am I the only one who read that as 'wife is nearly ubiquitous'?
IANAPE[ither], but I think your solution would be complicated by the fact that the dynamic range of a logarithmically sensitive medium is something on the order of a billion to one (or more).
So you would have to have a sensor with 30 or more bits resolution per channel (to match that dynamic range with a linearly sensitive sensor), from which you could then do the math to downconvert to make a logarithmic scale.
Lots of memory would be needed for that plus you'd have to have a very low S/N ratio, etc...