I hope that the powers at Wikipedia knows what they are doing: The popularity and influence of Wikipedia is directly powered by its high Google rank. Without the referals from Google Wikipedia can fade into oblivion faster than its assent.
This is why the grandmaster of 'Literate Programming', Donald Knuth, has done a translation into his CWEB Language which is totaly devoid of jumps and other 'dirty' Fortan: http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
Under the strickt rule of the Batterieverordnung (it is called Verordnung (eng. order) but it has the weight of a law) you are not allowed to sell products which do not have user removeable batteries ind Germany, with a list of exception. These include pacemakers ind implatable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). For these exempt products the manufacturer has to make sure that at the end of the lifecycle the product is returned to the manufacturer for correct disposal. I have salvaged pacemakers and ICD from corpses at the crematorium Hamburg-Öjendorf for the whole duration that the Batterieverordnung has been in place. For the results obtained you can visit http://www.drjunge.de/
This approach has been patented long ago. The latest US Patent on is 6,577,946 which has references to all the olds one covering basically the same stuff.
There is noting as unplesant as plain old normal Coke (aka Coca Cola not the mind benders, mind you) on your keyboard: you get instant stickiness to your fingers and all attempts to clean it off with a moist i.e. not so dry cloth, will result in permanent damage at least to some keys. Worst of all are the permanently stuck down i.e. on keys. Repair is best by total disassembly and washing with methanol (I found this out the hard way by not wanting to salvage my 100 pound original IBM keyboard vom 1985). After that experience I changed to mineral water as my perfered beverage...
These are packaged as 20 lectures of 6 CC each priced at US$19.99 each. I found my set at a discount bookstore--there doesn't seem to be such a huge demand for the tapes. MP3ing those CC is a real pain...
In an article in the German c't magazin you can find an interview with Don Knuth where he talks about a guy in california who cashes his checks on a regular basis (here is Google's attempt at it).
A far better interview can be found at Folio the magazine of the Neue Zuricher Zeitung which can also be translated by Google into something like a beginners version of english.
I was in the same situation as you are now in 15 years ago when I started my electrical engineering course. I refreshed und extended my mathematical knowledge by use of the Springer Series UTM (Undergraduate Texts in Mathemathics). Nearly all of the volumes have a short but precises introduction to notation and background in the first couple of charpters. Of particular use were Marsden/Weinstein Calculus I/II/III as well as Lang's introductory book on Algebra.
He seems to do quite well from the little help of his posting via his moderator privileges: Amazon.com sales rank 34, bn.com sales rank 7814. quite a few copies pushed into the market
The dictionary/definition approach was already tried by the CYCorp. Reading their papers one gets an impression of the complexity involved as well as the potential--when it will finally be working. After the computer is able to understand a text translation should be easy.
In a study I performed on the pacemakers in bodies before cremation out of 218 pacemakers tested 41 indicated that they should be replaced due to a near-dead battery. 14 Batteries were flat, 4 pacemakers looked up and had to be reset.
I prosume that non of the carriers knew about their flat batteries, some haven't been to a follow up session in a cardiology clinic for up to 8 (eight!) years.
In order for the patients to know about their pacemaker status they regulary have to go to their doctors. By giving the patients a device to check their implant the responsibility for the patient is dramatically increased. But there is no reason why the normal physician should not be able to check the pacemaker. Nowadays there are numerous telemetric programmers for all the different kinds of pacemakers that know physician can affort to buy them all: A standard interface is badly needed!
It is a big problem for the pacemaker to confirm the death of a person: Due to the frequent breakage of the electrodes the pacemaker generator will increase the sensitifity to the maximum. Thus noise will be detected as signals originating from within the heart and paceing is used to get the `noise' back into gear. This approach works quite well on broken electrodes!
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I hope that the powers at Wikipedia knows what they are doing: The popularity and influence of Wikipedia is directly powered by its high Google rank. Without the referals from Google Wikipedia can fade into oblivion faster than its assent.
This is why the grandmaster of 'Literate Programming', Donald Knuth, has done a translation into his CWEB Language which is totaly devoid of jumps and other 'dirty' Fortan:
http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
Under the strickt rule of the Batterieverordnung (it is called Verordnung (eng. order) but it has the weight of a law) you are not allowed to sell products which do not have user removeable batteries ind Germany, with a list of exception. These include pacemakers ind implatable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). For these exempt products the manufacturer has to make sure that at the end of the lifecycle the product is returned to the manufacturer for correct disposal. I have salvaged pacemakers and ICD from corpses at the crematorium Hamburg-Öjendorf for the whole duration that the Batterieverordnung has been in place. For the results obtained you can visit http://www.drjunge.de/
This approach has been patented long ago. The latest US Patent on is 6,577,946 which has references to all the olds one covering basically the same stuff.
There is noting as unplesant as plain old normal Coke (aka Coca Cola not the mind benders, mind you) on your keyboard: you get instant stickiness to your fingers and all attempts to clean it off with a moist i.e. not so dry cloth, will result in permanent damage at least to some keys. Worst of all are the permanently stuck down i.e. on keys. Repair is best by total disassembly and washing with methanol (I found this out the hard way by not wanting to salvage my 100 pound original IBM keyboard vom 1985). After that experience I changed to mineral water as my perfered beverage...
These are packaged as 20 lectures of 6 CC each priced at US$19.99 each. I found my set at a discount bookstore--there doesn't seem to be such a huge demand for the tapes. MP3ing those CC is a real pain...
In an article in the German c't magazin you can find an interview with Don Knuth where he talks about a guy in california who cashes his checks on a regular basis (here is Google's attempt at it).
A far better interview can be found at Folio the magazine of the Neue Zuricher Zeitung which can also be translated by Google into something like a beginners version of english.
I was in the same situation as you are now in 15 years ago when I started my electrical engineering course. I refreshed und extended my mathematical knowledge by use of the Springer Series UTM (Undergraduate Texts in Mathemathics). Nearly all of the volumes have a short but precises introduction to notation and background in the first couple of charpters.
Of particular use were Marsden/Weinstein Calculus I/II/III as well as Lang's introductory book on Algebra.
May your quest for knowledge be a happy one.
Does anybody understand how he is using the foam? And how the Foam/Filter as well as the Foam/Case attachment is done?
I would really like to know!
Instead of paying attention to every noise source inside a modern computer this series of external cases does the job by encasing the case.
The page is in german or this link for Google's translation.
There is even a 19" rack version English verison!
He seems to do quite well from the little help of his posting via his moderator privileges: Amazon.com sales rank 34, bn.com sales rank 7814.
quite a few copies pushed into the market
The dictionary/definition approach was already tried by the CYCorp. Reading their papers one gets an impression of the complexity involved as well as the potential--when it will finally be working. After the computer is able to understand a text translation should be easy.
Up to then I used Google on my homepage.
The original article is not the SciAm one but one in the Journal of Material Science titled The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades . Don't forget to have a look at the high res pictures, they are great!
Best of all this original article is free (in the HTML version)!
In a study I performed on the pacemakers in bodies before cremation out of 218 pacemakers tested 41 indicated that they should be replaced due to a near-dead battery. 14 Batteries were flat, 4 pacemakers looked up and had to be reset. I prosume that non of the carriers knew about their flat batteries, some haven't been to a follow up session in a cardiology clinic for up to 8 (eight!) years. In order for the patients to know about their pacemaker status they regulary have to go to their doctors. By giving the patients a device to check their implant the responsibility for the patient is dramatically increased. But there is no reason why the normal physician should not be able to check the pacemaker. Nowadays there are numerous telemetric programmers for all the different kinds of pacemakers that know physician can affort to buy them all: A standard interface is badly needed!
It is a big problem for the pacemaker to confirm the death of a person: Due to the frequent breakage of the electrodes the pacemaker generator will increase the sensitifity to the maximum. Thus noise will be detected as signals originating from within the heart and paceing is used to get the `noise' back into gear. This approach works quite well on broken electrodes!