Yes, 1900-1950 happens to contain an extraordinary assortment of major changes. In your medical example sanitation, antibiotics, and anesthesia were definitely major factors in all medical care.
X-Rays also -- back then, they saved a huge number of lives by allowing better care of all fractures. In the past few decades, more precision and CAT scan technology have allowed better treatments of teeth and less life-threatening injuries. But the overall benefits from the early X-Rays were more massive than the current gains -- even though now we sleet the body with much less radiation and get the images faster and with more detail, the basic benefit of knowing exactly where the bone is broken is not much greater than with the first X-Rays.
Notice the One-Wire sensors and think of what projects you could make with some of these, all connected to a single serial port. Other than the obvious weather sensors.
It depends upon the purpose of the class and where the time will be spent -- they can either spend their time designing sensors or the processor. If the processor is already built, they have more time for sensors. And a lot more people work with off-the-shelf processors than build their own...
The EmPower jacks on airplanes are 15V, not 12V. Web searches for "airplane power notebook" will show you many manufacturers of power adapters for those jacks. Or use an EmPower-to-12V adapter with your notebook's car adapter.
"The installation was soooooo easy.... Ease-of-use is a feature often overlooked in the entire Linux vs MS debate."
Installation is not ease-of-use, it's ease-of-installation. To compare ease-of-use you have to compare use after installation. It has been pointed out before that including installation when comparing Linux vs MS is a faulty argument unless you're comparing installation of both.
It's also a composition error to project the behavior of the installation program on to the behavior of the program being installed; just because InstallShield does a pretty installation of a bad DOS program won't change how the DOS program behaves.
Actually, used bookstores have been doing business on Amazon.com for a while. Look at your favorite old book and although zero copies were available, Amazon's page will offer to search further. You'll then see some used bookstores which have that book for sale.
What is new here is that Amazon began allowing anyone to sell one specific book and lists it on the main page for the book. They made it easier to find and buy used books, and also rather than requiring you to be a bookstore anyone can do it. So there's a bit of eBay business being brought in also.
Actually, the X10.com camera with motion detector would work better for that use.
The Trendmasters unit is a simple battery-powered camera. It will find other low-resolution uses (I saw the TV ads, and the video looked like toy quality). I also notice that the link in the article has a picture with a flap open on the far side -- that is not an LCD monitor, as that is not mentioned in the Trendmasters description.
Well, I wish InfoWorld and the other trade journals had all their archives online, as I followed this "urban legend" while it was being originally reported...
I just gave them more to think about. I told them that I'm about to install NetZero for some relatives but now have to reconsider. I want to hear what they have to say to counteract anti-NZ word of mouth.
6:40 p.m. Moscow time was 10:40 A.M. Eastern time. That's about the same time as the lunar eclipse started. I wonder how long Mir spent in Luna's shadow that day, as that reduced the power from its solar panels.
(As for not noticing the eclipse without looking at it, that's because the effect of this partial eclipse was similar to an ordinary cloudy day -- at about 90% totality you start noticing odd things such as a silvery sheen on the landscape.)
"However in the 20th century, certain monopolies focused on providing the best product and price to their customers.
Microsoft did just that, and judging from their economic success, they accomplished this extremely well."
This is a claim that because Microsoft made money they must be providing the best product at the best price. There is no other evidence provided of the quality of the product or the price. I consider this an Appeal to Common Practice or a Questionable Cause argument.
My obvious counterexample is the growth of the Virus Industries, which rely upon faulty Microsoft products.
Microsoft stock price is less than half what it was a year ago. (Note there was a split recently, so double the $46 price to $92 to compare to a year ago)
It seems to me that one of the biggest things in this whole case that M$ is doing is not publishing thier full API. That is,
M$ programs have an inherent advantage over non M$ programs, because the third party programmers don't know these
"secret calls."
You mean the same way MS Excel was using undocumented O.S. routines which its competitor, Lotus 1-2-3, could not use (was it in Windows 3.1?). I think Lotus won a court case about that, although it wasn't mentioned in the MS Antitrust case.
"Just ask the drug industry and thousands of dying patients how much FDA red tape has helped them."
You want no drug regulation, and go back to when cocaine was in "soft" drinks and doctors died of heroin overdoses? Do the words "opium den" mean anything to you? Remember the first drug war, when the U.S.A. was trying to keep the opium flowing and was using gunboats in China? (Go look up the history behind "The Sand Pebbles" instead of just watching the movie)
When I saw the headline I also thought we were going to hear about kinetic sculpture -- then as I read the article I thought of sculpture using phones.
Gee, not a single reference to "The Network Nation", a 1974 book describing past and possible computer-mediated communications. It's old enough that in 1994 it was examined for its historical value. However, web-based interfaces are more recent than that. I think a better network communication summary is this paper.
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X-Rays also -- back then, they saved a huge number of lives by allowing better care of all fractures. In the past few decades, more precision and CAT scan technology have allowed better treatments of teeth and less life-threatening injuries. But the overall benefits from the early X-Rays were more massive than the current gains -- even though now we sleet the body with much less radiation and get the images faster and with more detail, the basic benefit of knowing exactly where the bone is broken is not much greater than with the first X-Rays.
Notice the One-Wire sensors and think of what projects you could make with some of these, all connected to a single serial port. Other than the obvious weather sensors.
It depends upon the purpose of the class and where the time will be spent -- they can either spend their time designing sensors or the processor. If the processor is already built, they have more time for sensors. And a lot more people work with off-the-shelf processors than build their own...
Does the USA also trust the non-USA MS employees and network?
The EmPower jacks on airplanes are 15V, not 12V. Web searches for "airplane power notebook" will show you many manufacturers of power adapters for those jacks. Or use an EmPower-to-12V adapter with your notebook's car adapter.
No, I can't imagine it. Can you draw me a Flash diagram of it?
I look forward to /. allowing Flash codes in the "Allowed HTML" of postings. That will be a sight to make eyes sore.
What is pronounced as "ham" is written as "radio amateur".
Installation is not ease-of-use, it's ease-of-installation. To compare ease-of-use you have to compare use after installation. It has been pointed out before that including installation when comparing Linux vs MS is a faulty argument unless you're comparing installation of both.
It's also a composition error to project the behavior of the installation program on to the behavior of the program being installed; just because InstallShield does a pretty installation of a bad DOS program won't change how the DOS program behaves.
The word is "causally" -- although I've never tried to put the "-ly" suffix on the root of "causality".
What is new here is that Amazon began allowing anyone to sell one specific book and lists it on the main page for the book. They made it easier to find and buy used books, and also rather than requiring you to be a bookstore anyone can do it. So there's a bit of eBay business being brought in also.
The Trendmasters unit is a simple battery-powered camera. It will find other low-resolution uses (I saw the TV ads, and the video looked like toy quality). I also notice that the link in the article has a picture with a flap open on the far side -- that is not an LCD monitor, as that is not mentioned in the Trendmasters description.
Well, I wish InfoWorld and the other trade journals had all their archives online, as I followed this "urban legend" while it was being originally reported...
I just gave them more to think about. I told them that I'm about to install NetZero for some relatives but now have to reconsider. I want to hear what they have to say to counteract anti-NZ word of mouth.
Windows not using the browser? How many implementations of Java run as a separate program?
Office? This is before MS Office. Try the early 1990s (see the end of the article).
(As for not noticing the eclipse without looking at it, that's because the effect of this partial eclipse was similar to an ordinary cloudy day -- at about 90% totality you start noticing odd things such as a silvery sheen on the landscape.)
This is a claim that because Microsoft made money they must be providing the best product at the best price. There is no other evidence provided of the quality of the product or the price. I consider this an Appeal to Common Practice or a Questionable Cause argument.
My obvious counterexample is the growth of the Virus Industries, which rely upon faulty Microsoft products.
Microsoft stock price is less than half what it was a year ago. (Note there was a split recently, so double the $46 price to $92 to compare to a year ago)
You mean the same way MS Excel was using undocumented O.S. routines which its competitor, Lotus 1-2-3, could not use (was it in Windows 3.1?). I think Lotus won a court case about that, although it wasn't mentioned in the MS Antitrust case.
You want no drug regulation, and go back to when cocaine was in "soft" drinks and doctors died of heroin overdoses? Do the words "opium den" mean anything to you? Remember the first drug war, when the U.S.A. was trying to keep the opium flowing and was using gunboats in China? (Go look up the history behind "The Sand Pebbles" instead of just watching the movie)
When I saw the headline I also thought we were going to hear about kinetic sculpture -- then as I read the article I thought of sculpture using phones.
Video phones were around a bit before you heard of them in the 80's. They were demonstrated in 1964 and service began in 1970. Big and expensive then.
Gee, not a single reference to "The Network Nation", a 1974 book describing past and possible computer-mediated communications. It's old enough that in 1994 it was examined for its historical value. However, web-based interfaces are more recent than that. I think a better network communication summary is this paper.
You're using the movie "WarGames" as an example of the computer culture of the early 1990's? That movie is from 1983.