Believe it or not, there's precedence for this. Windows Desktop Search allows you to select your search provider for the "Web" button -- so you can set up MSN's toolbar to launch Google when you do a web search.
Click on the options button on the right-hand side, to the left of the help button, and select "Large Icons" view (or just press ctrl-L). This will give you snippets in each results row to show you where your search terms occurred.
Yes: it would be nice to do the same in the preview pane.
And for people wanting to perform various actions on the files they've found: context menus work in the results.
My grandfather, Jerry Lettvin, ran a marine neurolobiology lab in Naples back in the '60s. He has a huge collection of octopus stories from the time, some of which may've been enhanced by the passage of time, but are nonetheless entertaining.
One of his octopi was in a tank next to a shark. Another tank over was a tank full of molluscs. Apparently the octopus managed to jump out of its tank, onto a feeding plank which went above all three tanks, walked across the plank above the shark tank, then dropped into the mollusc tank. When my grandfather arrived the next morning, the octopus was making "happy colors" in the mollusc tank after gorging itself. So the octopus was smart enough to realize the bordering properties of tanks, not to mention getting the idea of jumping out of its tank in the first place.
My uncle also managed to train one of the octopi to squirt only certain grad students. It would also change color depending on who was in the lab at the time.
Bottom line, what makes something digital is the nature of the data (discrete values), not the encoding of the data.
Absolutely, and in this context, neurons are very much analog machines. Data are encoded in the space between action potentials -- which govern how much neurotransmitter is released or blocked, among other things -- rather than the action potentials themselves. Since there is no discrete "clock" governing the timing of action potentials beyond the time to regenerate, and even that is dependent on analog variables such as the width of the neuron, the information transmitted is analog.
Hmm... I think that communities work really well if there's a common, generally very specific, interest at heart. In that case, people develop into gurus/elders and are able to keep the newbies in line; FAQs develop and even off-topic discussions generally stay on some sort of reasonable track.
I do think that specificity and a site that grows slowly are key to this, though. You want a community where people really care what other people think about them.
...how nice it would be if instead of "70% fewer moving parts" they just didn't bother with "conventional moving parts" at all! Boy would that be cool.
Um... I remember virii on the Mac being a big problem in the late '80s because of the fact that the MacOS opened up and executed the resource for *anything* -- put a floppy in with the wrong WIN (was that it? memory fails me) resource and -- bang -- your entire computer is infected, without the user ever executing a program. Sure, Microsoft's scripting could be better thought out re: security but at least you've got the option to not run the script.
My point is just that lots of 'ease-of-use'/cool things get put into OS's & applications which can be exploited by a savvy virus. It's easy but inaccurate to blame Microsoft. Who knows what kind of virii we might see attacking Linux now that it's becoming more mainstream. I don't know my UNIX/Linux history at all but have there ever been virii spread via emacs? Seems to me like it's ideally suited for that (but I'm anxious to hear why I'm wrong).
I started working as a programmer at 16; I knew I was young and inexperienced and I was psyched to actually be getting PAID to program! I never had any problems with people listening to/respecting me because of my age, which might have been partly due to the fact that it was a small company. However, I did have major problems getting paid enough as I got more knowledge -- at 20, I was working 80 hours a week as one of two programmers on a huge upgrade to the company's primary product but still being paid less than the secretary.
My eventual solution was to leave that job and move to a company that respected my experience (and by that point I was about the age of a young-ish college grad and the company I worked for was full of young people at all levels).
My point is that I got tons of experience as a young 'un and that, while you may have to put up with some crap because of your age, you're getting huge amounts of knowledge about techie stuff and "real world" stuff like human interactions that many people who chose to just go to college will lack. And that will pay off in respect given to you by your co-workers.
But the whole point of Palm devices is that they're simple and straightforward ("hyped up electronic daybooks" isn't unfair). If you want a full-fledged computer, get a notebook; if you want something easy and light, get a Palm. Their beauty lies in their simplicity. If you want a Newton for historical interest or because that's your thing, fine, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that the Newton's design (or its purpose) is somehow "better" or more "proper" than the Palm's.
I'm not trying to prolong a religious war here -- I don't really enjoy using either device -- but I've written some code for the Palm and it strikes me as a well-engineered little device.
-Mo
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Believe it or not, there's precedence for this. Windows Desktop Search allows you to select your search provider for the "Web" button -- so you can set up MSN's toolbar to launch Google when you do a web search.
Click on the options button on the right-hand side, to the left of the help button, and select "Large Icons" view (or just press ctrl-L). This will give you snippets in each results row to show you where your search terms occurred.
Yes: it would be nice to do the same in the preview pane.
And for people wanting to perform various actions on the files they've found: context menus work in the results.
My grandfather, Jerry Lettvin, ran a marine neurolobiology lab in Naples back in the '60s. He has a huge collection of octopus stories from the time, some of which may've been enhanced by the passage of time, but are nonetheless entertaining.
One of his octopi was in a tank next to a shark. Another tank over was a tank full of molluscs. Apparently the octopus managed to jump out of its tank, onto a feeding plank which went above all three tanks, walked across the plank above the shark tank, then dropped into the mollusc tank. When my grandfather arrived the next morning, the octopus was making "happy colors" in the mollusc tank after gorging itself. So the octopus was smart enough to realize the bordering properties of tanks, not to mention getting the idea of jumping out of its tank in the first place.
My uncle also managed to train one of the octopi to squirt only certain grad students. It would also change color depending on who was in the lab at the time.
Bottom line, what makes something digital is the nature of the data (discrete values), not the encoding of the data.
Absolutely, and in this context, neurons are very much analog machines. Data are encoded in the space between action potentials -- which govern how much neurotransmitter is released or blocked, among other things -- rather than the action potentials themselves. Since there is no discrete "clock" governing the timing of action potentials beyond the time to regenerate, and even that is dependent on analog variables such as the width of the neuron, the information transmitted is analog.
-Moishe Lettvin
Hmm... I think that communities work really well if there's a common, generally very specific, interest at heart. In that case, people develop into gurus/elders and are able to keep the newbies in line; FAQs develop and even off-topic discussions generally stay on some sort of reasonable track.
I do think that specificity and a site that grows slowly are key to this, though. You want a community where people really care what other people think about them.
-Moishe
...how nice it would be if instead of "70% fewer moving parts" they just didn't bother with "conventional moving parts" at all! Boy would that be cool.
My point is just that lots of 'ease-of-use'/cool things get put into OS's & applications which can be exploited by a savvy virus. It's easy but inaccurate to blame Microsoft. Who knows what kind of virii we might see attacking Linux now that it's becoming more mainstream. I don't know my UNIX/Linux history at all but have there ever been virii spread via emacs? Seems to me like it's ideally suited for that (but I'm anxious to hear why I'm wrong).
-Moishe
My eventual solution was to leave that job and move to a company that respected my experience (and by that point I was about the age of a young-ish college grad and the company I worked for was full of young people at all levels). My point is that I got tons of experience as a young 'un and that, while you may have to put up with some crap because of your age, you're getting huge amounts of knowledge about techie stuff and "real world" stuff like human interactions that many people who chose to just go to college will lack. And that will pay off in respect given to you by your co-workers.
But the whole point of Palm devices is that they're simple and straightforward ("hyped up electronic daybooks" isn't unfair). If you want a full-fledged computer, get a notebook; if you want something easy and light, get a Palm. Their beauty lies in their simplicity. If you want a Newton for historical interest or because that's your thing, fine, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that the Newton's design (or its purpose) is somehow "better" or more "proper" than the Palm's. I'm not trying to prolong a religious war here -- I don't really enjoy using either device -- but I've written some code for the Palm and it strikes me as a well-engineered little device. -Mo