At the Gates Building (yes, it is that Gates) home of the Stanford CS department they had an interesting display near the entrance. It was a platter from the first hard drive the university ever owned. It was part of a card catalog system at Green Library. It is huge. If I remember correctly it was about 4 feet in diameter and an inch thick of solid metal. There was a large gouge in it where they had a head crash once. I can't remember how much it stored (7 megabytes sticks in my head for some reason) by the density was very low. The plaque next to it said that it wasn't very reliable and generated lots of heat.
Which is why my post also said:
But there certainly is a perception of safety.
I also mentioned several examples of them being outright dangerous to their own occupants. However auto companies trade on the public's perception of the safety of a gigantic SUV.
As for minivans, they are interesting from a safety point of view. They have the same high center of gravity that SUVs have yet they roll over less frequently. This might have more to do with how the two vehicles are driven and percieved by their owners than with the abilities of the vehicles themselves.
Back to my marketing point (from a previous post), it is very hard to make minivans cool, even to people who need a minivan. That is one of the big reasons for the success of the SUV. It has many of the benefits of a minivan with the additional "cool factor" that people feel they need when spending tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle.
I certainly agree that the proliferation of SUVs makes everyone less safe. If all passenger vehicles (as opposed to work trucks) had to be included in the fuel efficiency calculations together with cars all of this would change real fast. But it won't happen.
In the office that I work in the carpet has a subtle grid pattern to it. Walking down a particular long narrow hallway I noticed that at distances such that the pattern is no longer distinct, patterns of quick moving curves appear. It can give you a bit of a headache actually. I have pointed this out to a few people and they have confirmed that they see it to. Does that count? It certainly isn't two overlaid patterns creating an interference pattern.
And yet another reason that they are popular is for saftey. You are much more likely to kill the other guy when driving an SUV, as opposed to an economy car, in which you are more likely to die. Unless of course you have a Durango which has terrible crash test results. Or if you happen to roll your SUV since it is designed for low speed off-road driving rather than the freeway. But there certainly is a perception of safety. I certainly enjoy the high vantage point. It makes me feel safer at least.
Yes and no. US consumers don't want a wimpy EV1, for the most part. They want the bulk, power, and capacity of an SUV. Thus, the consumer is to blame.
While in the end it is consumers who purchase SUVs, the situation is a bit more complicated than that.
Auto companies have to produce cars such that the average fuel economy of what they sell meets a certain federal standard. The car companies are notriously bad at doing this, but even though they ignore the law, promissing to make it up in the future (right...) they are always looking for ways around it.
Now light trucks are exempt from these regulations. But consumers outside of Wyoming (I love Wyoming btw) don't want to drive around in a truck, they like their cars. Enter the SUV. Very few people NEED an SUV, but the auto industry loves them because they are more appealing to consumers than trucks but are classified as light trucks for the purposes of federal fuel economy standards.
So the car company can put a big 'ole engine in there and not worry about the expense and bother of fuel efficiency. Now if only consumers wanted to drive a jacked up station wagon (which is what your typical SUV is, admit it.) Since station wagons are soooo cool...
But wait! That is what marketing is for, to tell consumers what to buy and what to want! So car companies market the crap out of SUVs since they are more profitable than cars and don't hurt their fuel economy averages. Bingo! SUVs are popular because consumers "want" them.
So yes you can blame consumers, but I choose to blame poor legislation that gave car companies incentive to make SUVs as well. While I'm at it I blame the car companies too. Especially Toyota for making a 4Runner with a removable hardtop up until 1989. Wish I still had that car, I mean truck...
I do see the humour in your post but it brings up an important point. Lonely people are often the targets of telemarketers. Some people are so afraid to say no that they end up paying for things they don't want or need. The elderly are especially vulnerable to this, which is all the more reason to ban telemarketing.
On CNN there is always a time and date that the story was last updated./. has a history of posting updates as Update:, so the fact the/. is being inconsistent is bad.
Of course, from this particular editor this sort of thing has come to be expected. Michael-baiting has developed as a reaction to this. It is a mark of honor of sorts to be modded down while pointed out what a terrible editor he is.
Yes, I saw the story as it was originally posted and it did change. Of course in a situation like this where the change is because an editor shot his mouth off rather than an actual update to the story I can see why this happened. What would they post as an update? "Sorry, an editor went a little too far here, please ignore the previous sentence." That wouldn't work too well. What they need to do is be more careful in the first place. And fire someone in addition to Katz.
I agree that small classes are great. Faculty attention is even better. All other things being equal those things would give ou a huge advantage. Basically it boils down to determining what size of fish you are and how big of a pond you want to swim in for undergrad. I choose an ocean and I thought it was great. ymmv
It seems to me that you and the AC you replied to missed the point of the post saying that you have a better chance of getting into a top Phd program if you go to a top undergrad one. Nobody said that it wasn't possible to get into a top graduate program coming from a smaller school. Nor does the fact that top schools have lots of people from small schools contradict the statement that you have a better chance of getting in if you came from a top undergrad institution. If you are truely outstanding then you will be get a chance to prove yourself if that is what you want.
The huge sever room at IBM's Santa Teresa lab was origianlly desinged to heat all seven towers of the structure. Which worked fine until new, more efficient servers were introduced. Then they had to go back and install heating equipment because the computers were no longer putting off enough heat.
This is one of the "evils" of server consolidation. I guess.
Why not get a proper stem to begin with? If you want the bars to be higher, isn't the stem the logical place to accomplish this? Why this recent obsession with riser bars?
While we're on the subject of bikes, for commuting a recumbent makes all kinds of sense. You can pick up a brand new BikeE on eBay for cheap now that they've gone under.
Not to mention if China will follow the same path.
How likely do you think it is that China will become a mecca for foreign grad students in the way that the USA is? Maybe 20 years from now if there are massive changes, but it is not likely to happen in the near future.
Out of curiosity, where are you from? Are you a foriegn student studying in the US?
Actually I didn't care much for the guns, I just thought that particular line in the trailer was hilarious and is signified that this was going to be a movie that went a step beyond anything the had come before.
That was about all I knew about The Matrix when I went into the theater (I had seen the trailer) and I was blown away. Completely surprised by the plot and the details. Because of this I am avoiding any spoilers for the next two. I wouldn't want to know what to expect. Though it is tempting to know what happens I will resist!
Hackers rejoice! Your expensive Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper and Starbucks habbits can now be replaced by the color pink!
From the webpage cited in the parent post:
When the man artificially gets exposed to a pink viewfield,the same waking
archprogram gets executed and sets free stress hormons.If the exposure lasts
for a too long time,lots of stress hormons are setted free,causing a similar
effect as consuming too much coffee,cigarettes or any other wakening drugs;the
man doesn't get waker anymore but feels exhausted and even more weak and ti-
red,because this maladjustment of his body cybernetics hinders his brain from
cleaning up itself.An exposure to a red viewfield starts a similar,but weaker
program,because red appears in the daylight sequence at morning and evening
too,but for a longer time.
Just think of the money you'll save! I am still trying to perfect the process of "artificial exposure" to the color pink. Maybe if I change the backgroung color of my code editor from white to pink that will be "artificial exposure". I am not sure what the effects of natural exposure to pink are. Since they are still unknown I suggest that you all avoid any natural pink for now.
I know that it was meant to reference the stem cell debate, but what are the journalistics ethis of posting a article, admitting that it contains no details, and then asking for the readers to find more info for you? Seems a bit irresponsible to me.
How often does the SW logo get used? Often it is for something unrelated to the prequels, like a video game or Lego or ASCII art.
Add to that the fact that these movies will make so much money that they will HAVE to make The Hobbit, so an icon with just the One Ring would work nicely.
While we're on the topic you should note that the Mac OS 9 icon came out maybe a day before the OS was declared dead and has beenused maybe three times.
I've got a working C-64 that's been through a dozen moves, an infinite number of Jumpman inspired rages, and two boys' adolescensce. Space? Hah!
I loved the C= 64 but our power supply would go out every few months. Add to that the joys of re-aligning a 1541 every few weeks by hand. How do you get Jumpman to load after all these years? Your floppies are still good?
Not true, the Pope is free to retire whenever he wants to. There was a lot of speculation that the current Pope would retire after his recent visit to Poland.
EA made a crappy word processor for the C=64 called Cut & Paste. We took it back and got Paperclip 64 from Batteries not Included which had a dongle that plugged into the joystick port and seemed to have about a 50% chance of working.
Other early EA software that I had included Music Construction Set and Hard Hat Mac. I was pretty sad about Hard Hat Mac since I had asked for Jumpman for Christmas, but Hard Hat Mac turned out to be pretty fun. The games came in giant boxes that resembled an LP sleeve.
The website says that they are fully programable. You can use the ir port of a Palm Pilot to communicate with them. So yes you can make them say dirty words or your web address. If anyone is looking long and hard enough to read the words though they are likely to hit you unintentionally if they are in a moving car. Other patterns might hypnotizethem or trigger siezures. Maybe these aren't a saftey product after all...
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At the Gates Building (yes, it is that Gates) home of the Stanford CS department they had an interesting display near the entrance. It was a platter from the first hard drive the university ever owned. It was part of a card catalog system at Green Library. It is huge. If I remember correctly it was about 4 feet in diameter and an inch thick of solid metal. There was a large gouge in it where they had a head crash once. I can't remember how much it stored (7 megabytes sticks in my head for some reason) by the density was very low. The plaque next to it said that it wasn't very reliable and generated lots of heat.
Which is why my post also said:
But there certainly is a perception of safety.
I also mentioned several examples of them being outright dangerous to their own occupants. However auto companies trade on the public's perception of the safety of a gigantic SUV.
As for minivans, they are interesting from a safety point of view. They have the same high center of gravity that SUVs have yet they roll over less frequently. This might have more to do with how the two vehicles are driven and percieved by their owners than with the abilities of the vehicles themselves.
Back to my marketing point (from a previous post), it is very hard to make minivans cool, even to people who need a minivan. That is one of the big reasons for the success of the SUV. It has many of the benefits of a minivan with the additional "cool factor" that people feel they need when spending tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle.
I certainly agree that the proliferation of SUVs makes everyone less safe. If all passenger vehicles (as opposed to work trucks) had to be included in the fuel efficiency calculations together with cars all of this would change real fast. But it won't happen.
In the office that I work in the carpet has a subtle grid pattern to it. Walking down a particular long narrow hallway I noticed that at distances such that the pattern is no longer distinct, patterns of quick moving curves appear. It can give you a bit of a headache actually. I have pointed this out to a few people and they have confirmed that they see it to. Does that count? It certainly isn't two overlaid patterns creating an interference pattern.
I tried to make the fact that it is self centered (and flawed) obvious. I guess I did a poor job of that.
And yet another reason that they are popular is for saftey. You are much more likely to kill the other guy when driving an SUV, as opposed to an economy car, in which you are more likely to die. Unless of course you have a Durango which has terrible crash test results. Or if you happen to roll your SUV since it is designed for low speed off-road driving rather than the freeway. But there certainly is a perception of safety. I certainly enjoy the high vantage point. It makes me feel safer at least.
While in the end it is consumers who purchase SUVs, the situation is a bit more complicated than that.
Auto companies have to produce cars such that the average fuel economy of what they sell meets a certain federal standard. The car companies are notriously bad at doing this, but even though they ignore the law, promissing to make it up in the future (right...) they are always looking for ways around it.
Now light trucks are exempt from these regulations. But consumers outside of Wyoming (I love Wyoming btw) don't want to drive around in a truck, they like their cars. Enter the SUV. Very few people NEED an SUV, but the auto industry loves them because they are more appealing to consumers than trucks but are classified as light trucks for the purposes of federal fuel economy standards.
So the car company can put a big 'ole engine in there and not worry about the expense and bother of fuel efficiency. Now if only consumers wanted to drive a jacked up station wagon (which is what your typical SUV is, admit it.) Since station wagons are soooo cool...
But wait! That is what marketing is for, to tell consumers what to buy and what to want! So car companies market the crap out of SUVs since they are more profitable than cars and don't hurt their fuel economy averages. Bingo! SUVs are popular because consumers "want" them.
So yes you can blame consumers, but I choose to blame poor legislation that gave car companies incentive to make SUVs as well. While I'm at it I blame the car companies too. Especially Toyota for making a 4Runner with a removable hardtop up until 1989. Wish I still had that car, I mean truck...
I do see the humour in your post but it brings up an important point. Lonely people are often the targets of telemarketers. Some people are so afraid to say no that they end up paying for things they don't want or need. The elderly are especially vulnerable to this, which is all the more reason to ban telemarketing.
Of course, from this particular editor this sort of thing has come to be expected. Michael-baiting has developed as a reaction to this. It is a mark of honor of sorts to be modded down while pointed out what a terrible editor he is.
Yes, I saw the story as it was originally posted and it did change. Of course in a situation like this where the change is because an editor shot his mouth off rather than an actual update to the story I can see why this happened. What would they post as an update? "Sorry, an editor went a little too far here, please ignore the previous sentence." That wouldn't work too well. What they need to do is be more careful in the first place. And fire someone in addition to Katz.
I agree that small classes are great. Faculty attention is even better. All other things being equal those things would give ou a huge advantage. Basically it boils down to determining what size of fish you are and how big of a pond you want to swim in for undergrad. I choose an ocean and I thought it was great. ymmv
It seems to me that you and the AC you replied to missed the point of the post saying that you have a better chance of getting into a top Phd program if you go to a top undergrad one. Nobody said that it wasn't possible to get into a top graduate program coming from a smaller school. Nor does the fact that top schools have lots of people from small schools contradict the statement that you have a better chance of getting in if you came from a top undergrad institution. If you are truely outstanding then you will be get a chance to prove yourself if that is what you want.
This is one of the "evils" of server consolidation. I guess.
While we're on the subject of bikes, for commuting a recumbent makes all kinds of sense. You can pick up a brand new BikeE on eBay for cheap now that they've gone under.
How likely do you think it is that China will become a mecca for foreign grad students in the way that the USA is? Maybe 20 years from now if there are massive changes, but it is not likely to happen in the near future.
Out of curiosity, where are you from? Are you a foriegn student studying in the US?
Where did you get that info? China has more English speakers than India? I find that hard to believe.
Crap, I knew I shouldn't have read any responses.
Actually I didn't care much for the guns, I just thought that particular line in the trailer was hilarious and is signified that this was going to be a movie that went a step beyond anything the had come before.
That was about all I knew about The Matrix when I went into the theater (I had seen the trailer) and I was blown away. Completely surprised by the plot and the details. Because of this I am avoiding any spoilers for the next two. I wouldn't want to know what to expect. Though it is tempting to know what happens I will resist!
From the webpage cited in the parent post:
When the man artificially gets exposed to a pink viewfield,the same waking archprogram gets executed and sets free stress hormons.If the exposure lasts for a too long time,lots of stress hormons are setted free,causing a similar effect as consuming too much coffee,cigarettes or any other wakening drugs;the man doesn't get waker anymore but feels exhausted and even more weak and ti- red,because this maladjustment of his body cybernetics hinders his brain from cleaning up itself.An exposure to a red viewfield starts a similar,but weaker program,because red appears in the daylight sequence at morning and evening too,but for a longer time.
Just think of the money you'll save! I am still trying to perfect the process of "artificial exposure" to the color pink. Maybe if I change the backgroung color of my code editor from white to pink that will be "artificial exposure". I am not sure what the effects of natural exposure to pink are. Since they are still unknown I suggest that you all avoid any natural pink for now.
I know that it was meant to reference the stem cell debate, but what are the journalistics ethis of posting a article, admitting that it contains no details, and then asking for the readers to find more info for you? Seems a bit irresponsible to me.
How can a game that until recently was named "Pern" be faithful to Tolkien?
Add to that the fact that these movies will make so much money that they will HAVE to make The Hobbit, so an icon with just the One Ring would work nicely.
While we're on the topic you should note that the Mac OS 9 icon came out maybe a day before the OS was declared dead and has beenused maybe three times.
What /. really lacks is a Cringley icon...
as name & pw works for the link
I loved the C= 64 but our power supply would go out every few months. Add to that the joys of re-aligning a 1541 every few weeks by hand. How do you get Jumpman to load after all these years? Your floppies are still good?
Not true, the Pope is free to retire whenever he wants to. There was a lot of speculation that the current Pope would retire after his recent visit to Poland.
Other early EA software that I had included Music Construction Set and Hard Hat Mac. I was pretty sad about Hard Hat Mac since I had asked for Jumpman for Christmas, but Hard Hat Mac turned out to be pretty fun. The games came in giant boxes that resembled an LP sleeve.
The website says that they are fully programable. You can use the ir port of a Palm Pilot to communicate with them. So yes you can make them say dirty words or your web address. If anyone is looking long and hard enough to read the words though they are likely to hit you unintentionally if they are in a moving car. Other patterns might hypnotizethem or trigger siezures. Maybe these aren't a saftey product after all...