It doesn't just give recipes. It also explains the testing and experimenting that went into developing the recipes. An interesting and useful book, for sure. I've done a fair bit of cooking and baking with this book and it has never let me down.
This has got to be coming from someone who thinks cameras in celphones is the end-all be-all of photography.
Although digital has arguably caught up to 35mm, I suggest you go talk to someone that shoots medium format or large format. Digital backs for those cameras cost about 15K USD, last I checked. Film is hardly dead.
One drawback with this is that at least with cash you can almost guarantee anonymity (modulo fingerprints and DNA, maybe). Can you verify the anonymity of transactions using these cards?
And, of course, there's the worry that reverse engineering the card codes and card readers to verify anonymity. I suppose you might get busted for doing that.
I'm writing this on a 2 week old TiBook right now. The keyboard is very good for a laptop (although not appreciably better than my old Vaio), but it doesn't come anywhere near my desktop's Logitech keyboard.
It's a radical new concept and we technocrats should at least have some kind of open mind about it.
But many of us technochrats still dislike the feel of laptop keyboards because they don't respond quite "right". I suspect these new virtual keyboards will take quite a bit of getting used to and won't be adpoted very quickly.
Well, I used to work for a prof that did research in this area. That was five years ago, so I'm way out of date, but hopefully I can give you a bit of insight.
A big use for this kind of thing is for part feeding, that is a method of orienting parts on an assembly line. There is mention of this on Dr. Resnik's web page. Basically, you have the problem of presicely orienting a whole whack of (possibly complicated) parts as fast as you can to present them to the next stage in an assembly process.
Yes, a robot can accomplish this, but because of the motion that is involved they are slow, and because of the optical recognition involved they can bit, uh... touchy:)
One method of dealing with part orientation is by things called bowl feeders. They are a bit hard to describe in type, but imagine that you have a big steel drum with a spiralling track up the inside of the drum. By vibrating the drum you can make the parts you are trying to orient climb up the track (beleive me, this sounds wierd, but it actually works). By changing the shape of the track you can force incorrectly oriented parts to fall back into the bowl, thus filtering out parts that are correctly oriented. So, only parts that are correctly oriented arrive at the top of the drum.
It's not quite as simple as that, but that's the general idea. Now, as well as this works (when it works), the problem is that whenever you change the shape of the part, you need to build a new bowl feeder! And building these things is not simple (or cheap).
I beleive what Dr. Reznik is trying to do with this experiment is not to prove that you can move poker chips around, but that you can build a programable solution to this problem; you can build one machine that will sort anything, given the correct programming of the controllers,
thus alleviating the cost of prototyping things like bowl feeders.
So, to my mind, it's actually pretty spiffy, despite what others are saying here.
I know I've left out some details, and I certainly haven't researched Dr. Reznik's work, but hopefully I've given you (and some of the/. detractors) some idea where this work is probably headed.
The only thing I find a bit perplexing is, if he is proceeding towards the end that I've described, is how he is going to do this in three dimensions. Sure, he can rotate things in two dimensions, but what about more complicated parts?
I should also add that watching one of those bowl feeders in action is actually pretty creepy at first. Parts move up the track, but nothing else seems to be moving (the vibration rate is quite high, so you don't really see it). Mind you, they are freakin loud:)
I think you are missing the point.
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The file must be stored somewhere, so all it takes is one person to steal the file, figure out how to rip it to [insert arbitrary file format] and then stick it up on a website.
And, truth be told, if they can steal one book, they'll probably steal the whole database full of books.
And of course the inevitable 1-meg floppy. Not even big enough to back up the registry. Too small, in fact, for anything really useful. It's just there out of industrial inertia.
I'd disagree with that somewhat. It's a lot less of a hassle to turn a floppy into a boot disk than it is to burn a CD. And rescue floppies are anything but useless.
Since you are talking about the resgistry, I'm guessing you are a windows-only human (altho, I could be wrong). However, floppy utilities such as Tom's Root Boot are an invaluable resource for Linux users.
As a bit of an aside, I recently purchased a G4 for use in my music pursuits. It doesn't have a floppy. Which wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that the opcode drivers only ship on floppies, making it a bit of a hassle to load them onto the G4 (assuming I ever find the damn things in this appartment of mine).
Speaking of which, have you bought any Maxtor drives lately? They still ship their installation software only on floppies. Presumably this is because there are machines out there that have BIOSes that won't let you boot from CD.
So, altho I think that floppies are a hold-over from previous generations of technology, they do still serve a purpose. And will continue to do so for some time yet.
P.S Does anybody out there happen to have copies of the drivers and software for the Opcode Studio64X? Please, Please, Pretty Please?:)
I know someone who works for Metricom here in Houston. She is currently looking for new employment.
Additionally, I just asked her about this article, and altho she didnt know about the situation until the CEO emailed everyone at Metricom and told them not to panic, she did have the following to say, and I quote:
Well, I alway speculated it wasn't feasible to roll out our network and we'd run out of money. It's too expensive. Each node is a pretty penny and they have to have one every.25 miles in a coverage area. Each WAP is more than a pretty penny and there has to be one every 5miles in a coverage area.
So, I wouldn't say there is no FUD involved, but it would appear there is at least something to all this concern about Metricom.
... you do realize EBay is only patenting this so they can put the patent rights up for auction, right? You don't suppose the winner of said auction would be a porn site, do you? hmm?;)
Actually, I don't think it has anything to do with OpenBSD vs. ThingsFallingFromSky. Ever notice that the more technical the original article, the few people that post responses?
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Does Tolstokozhev's killer get the SysAdmin Of The Year award?
As a graduate of Over State, I happen to appreciate the length of this joke.
Sorry, forgot to include the smiley-face emoticon for you.
I suspect his last name is actually pronounced "Doob," for obvious reasons.
Is this an out-take from the "BRADY BUNCH"?
It doesn't just give recipes. It also explains the testing and experimenting that went into developing the recipes. An interesting and useful book, for sure. I've done a fair bit of cooking and baking with this book and it has never let me down.
I'm guessing you don't do much baking.
You mean, like this? :)
Oh, so *that's* what the new transformers movie is all about! I get it now ...
This has got to be coming from someone who thinks cameras in celphones is the end-all be-all of photography.
Although digital has arguably caught up to 35mm, I suggest you go talk to someone that shoots medium format or large format. Digital backs for those cameras cost about 15K USD, last I checked. Film is hardly dead.
It's still on, but it's on at 8am Saturday mornings, and it's all reruns. No new shows.
One drawback with this is that at least with cash you can almost guarantee anonymity (modulo fingerprints and DNA, maybe). Can you verify the anonymity of transactions using these cards?
And, of course, there's the worry that reverse engineering the card codes and card readers to verify anonymity. I suppose you might get busted for doing that.
Sorry
But many of us technochrats still dislike the feel of laptop keyboards because they don't respond quite "right". I suspect these new virtual keyboards will take quite a bit of getting used to and won't be adpoted very quickly.
Just a guess, of course.
All "your time" is belong to us.
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Sorry in advance for that one
A big use for this kind of thing is for part feeding, that is a method of orienting parts on an assembly line. There is mention of this on Dr. Resnik's web page. Basically, you have the problem of presicely orienting a whole whack of (possibly complicated) parts as fast as you can to present them to the next stage in an assembly process.
Yes, a robot can accomplish this, but because of the motion that is involved they are slow, and because of the optical recognition involved they can bit, uh ... touchy :)
One method of dealing with part orientation is by things called bowl feeders. They are a bit hard to describe in type, but imagine that you have a big steel drum with a spiralling track up the inside of the drum. By vibrating the drum you can make the parts you are trying to orient climb up the track (beleive me, this sounds wierd, but it actually works). By changing the shape of the track you can force incorrectly oriented parts to fall back into the bowl, thus filtering out parts that are correctly oriented. So, only parts that are correctly oriented arrive at the top of the drum.
It's not quite as simple as that, but that's the general idea. Now, as well as this works (when it works), the problem is that whenever you change the shape of the part, you need to build a new bowl feeder! And building these things is not simple (or cheap).
I beleive what Dr. Reznik is trying to do with this experiment is not to prove that you can move poker chips around, but that you can build a programable solution to this problem; you can build one machine that will sort anything, given the correct programming of the controllers, thus alleviating the cost of prototyping things like bowl feeders.
So, to my mind, it's actually pretty spiffy, despite what others are saying here.
I know I've left out some details, and I certainly haven't researched Dr. Reznik's work, but hopefully I've given you (and some of the /. detractors) some idea where this work is probably headed.
The only thing I find a bit perplexing is, if he is proceeding towards the end that I've described, is how he is going to do this in three dimensions. Sure, he can rotate things in two dimensions, but what about more complicated parts?
I should also add that watching one of those bowl feeders in action is actually pretty creepy at first. Parts move up the track, but nothing else seems to be moving (the vibration rate is quite high, so you don't really see it). Mind you, they are freakin loud :)
And, truth be told, if they can steal one book, they'll probably steal the whole database full of books.
Ever heard of napster?
I'd disagree with that somewhat. It's a lot less of a hassle to turn a floppy into a boot disk than it is to burn a CD. And rescue floppies are anything but useless.
Since you are talking about the resgistry, I'm guessing you are a windows-only human (altho, I could be wrong). However, floppy utilities such as Tom's Root Boot are an invaluable resource for Linux users.
As a bit of an aside, I recently purchased a G4 for use in my music pursuits. It doesn't have a floppy. Which wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that the opcode drivers only ship on floppies, making it a bit of a hassle to load them onto the G4 (assuming I ever find the damn things in this appartment of mine).
Speaking of which, have you bought any Maxtor drives lately? They still ship their installation software only on floppies. Presumably this is because there are machines out there that have BIOSes that won't let you boot from CD.
So, altho I think that floppies are a hold-over from previous generations of technology, they do still serve a purpose. And will continue to do so for some time yet.
P.S Does anybody out there happen to have copies of the drivers and software for the Opcode Studio64X? Please, Please, Pretty Please? :)
.. that people had babies long before cellphones were invented, right?
It's called a "troll". You've haven't posted for a while, have you?
Additionally, I just asked her about this article, and altho she didnt know about the situation until the CEO emailed everyone at Metricom and told them not to panic, she did have the following to say, and I quote:
Well, I alway speculated it wasn't feasible to roll out our network and we'd run out of money. It's too expensive. Each node is a pretty penny and they have to have one every .25 miles in a coverage area. Each WAP is more than a pretty penny and there has to be one every 5miles in a coverage area.
So, I wouldn't say there is no FUD involved, but it would appear there is at least something to all this concern about Metricom.
... you do realize EBay is only patenting this so they can put the patent rights up for auction, right? You don't suppose the winner of said auction would be a porn site, do you? hmm? ;)
Actually, I don't think it has anything to do with OpenBSD vs. ThingsFallingFromSky. Ever notice that the more technical the original article, the few people that post responses?
Things that make you say "hmmmm..."