Agreed. I just wish they hadn't discontinued their Callipens line, but I see by your link they now have Calligrapher markers in 3 nib widths. Not as elegant a form factor, but I'll take one of each.
- ``A fetus responds to the human voice'' --- not until ~16 weeks
The problems w/ outlawing abortion are that enforcement of it requires an invasion of a woman's privacy which is problematic:
- can't allow pregnant women to travel to anywhere abortion is legal (unless on effects a world-wide ban)
- every mis-carriage / still-birth must be investigated as a potential murder
- rape becomes an effective method for a man to procreate
For my part, I'd rather that all the effort which goes into anti-abortion to instead be put into caring for un-wanted children and single mothers. Once we've ensured that every woman who wishes to be pregnant is effectively cared for, then one might be able to justify doing something _to_ women who don't wish to be pregnant.
- too expensive
- too confusing (it's obvious that the iPad won't run Mac OS X apps, it's not obvious that the RT Surface won't run Windows apps)
- too late
(and I write this as a guy who'd like to replace his Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PC w/ a Surface (Intel version, if it's possible to install Mac OS X on it)
There was also a mention in Marvel Comics, forget the title, starring Shang-Chi of the CIA developing race-specific genetic weapons.
Somehow, we missed the science fiction story where:
``... the protagonists are would-be thieves or revolutionaries who seem to have all the superstitiousness of medieval peasants, but it turns out that it's merely behaviour to defend against such high-tech genetic snooping.'' ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3192557&cid=41689163 )
It doesn't help that I'm still raging about _The Last Story_ inexplicably _not_ having an _option_ for using IR pointing when aiming the crossbow or looking around. _Xenoblade Chronicles_ not using motion controls was bad enough, but at least it didn't rub it in one's face --- TLS actually makes me angry every time I encounter the Seek prompt, or need to use the crossbow.
The sad thing is, some of the games which I've enjoyed the most were on the Wii (Red Steel 2, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, 007 Goldeneye) and it seems that that style of gameplay is not being carried on for new games on the Wii U.
Announce a Motion Plus controlled RPG w/ a commitment to on-going DLC and w/ an on-line experience as good as or better than TLS and I'll buy a Wii U --- until then, I'll wait for the next Zelda (so long as it uses Skyward Sword-style Motion Plus controls).
While I prefer to use a slate (use a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 Tablet PC as my main machine for web-browsing, writing, editing, notes, drawing, sketching, drawing up wood-working plans, LaTeX typesetting and some light programming), a convertible literally is the ``Best of Both Worlds'' (for those who're willing to carry the extra weight of the keyboard and deal w/ the hinge mechanism). I'd be glad to be able to run Mac OS X on the Intel version of the MS Surface.
Apple should remember this from a time when they marketed a laptop (PowerBook Duo) and a docking station which swallowed the portable unit as if it were a VCR tape and allowed one to use external keyboard, mouse and monitor on one's desktop.
Similarly, Sony's Tap 20 ( http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/sony-vaio-tap-20.aspx ) is an all-in-one w/ a 2 hour battery and a stand which allows one to move it around and lay it flat for a more flexible usage. If we could get an option for that sort of thing in an iMac, we might be able to get our proofreaders to buy into soft-proofing jobs on-screen.
No, steering clutch dis-engagement should _require_ constant application of power (pushing against a set of springs or some such) --- any loss would result in it being re-engaged.
That said, if you're billable rate is high enough, and you need a beefier machine you should probably just get a monitor for your existing machine which has stylus support (there's a 24" model which has touch):
So do I, but it's a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PC w/ a Wacom digitizer and pressure-sensitive stylus. I draw, sketch, create plans for woodworking projects, design typefaces, do some light programming and typesetting using (La)TeX and keep several decades worth of notes on it. The slate form-factor is well-suited to design work, and it's nice to be able to do this pretty much anywhere (Fujitsu has a history of offering daylight-viewable transflective displays, which my ST-4121 has). It also makes a very nice map reader for long trips.
Looking forward to the MS Surface and hoping that there's a standardized way to install Mac OS X on it (hopefully 10.6, since I need to keep FreeHand MX).
The way I'd build it would be that the steering clutch is _always_ engaged by default, and is disengaged when the drive-by-wire system is functioning properly --- any error, loss-of-power, or other problem w/ the drive-by-wire system results in the steering clutch being re-engaged.
Yes, but given that a 20" LCD TV is ~$350, I couldn't take the OP's price point seriously, and it's a rare device which doesn't eventually go for less than list price.
where the protagonists are would-be thieves or revolutionaries who seem to have all the superstitiousness of medieval peasants, but it turns out that it's merely behaviour to defend against such high-tech genetic snooping.
There's also the physics of energy density, &c. --- remember the ads in the back of Popular Mechanics for the hovercraft one could make using a vacuum cleaner? They'd work, but one couldn't go farther than the extension cord plugged into the wall.
As a contraption gets smaller you lose more mass in proportion to mechanical structure and have much less volume
_Divers Down! Adventure Beneath Hawai'ian Seas_ --- Hal Gordon: love of the ocean, technology, work ethic and respect for other cultures
_Swiss Family Robinson_ --- Johann Wyss: work ethic, love of outdoors,attitude toward survival
_Mad Scientist Club books_ --- Bertrand R. Brinley: love of science
_Dark is Rising pentalogy_ --- Susan Cooper: the wide world and its place in history
_Lyonesse:Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc_ --- Jack Vance: high fantasy, gender relations
_The 26 Letters_ --- Oscar Ogg:love of the written word, appreciation of its history
_ A Short History of the Printed Word_ --- Warren Chappell: ove of the typography, appreciation of its history
_TeX and Metafont_ --- Don Knuth: how computers would affect typography
_ Space Cadet_ --- Robert Heinlein: understanding of education and service
_Last of the Breed_ --- Louis L'Amour: love of archery
_Looking for a Ship_ --- John McPhee: how a changing world affects a career
_Doorways in the Sand_ --- Roger Zelazny: nature of education
_Bridge of Birds_ --- Barry Hughart: love and laughter
For all that there's a lot of fiction on the list. I wonder if I shouldn't have read more biographies starting w/ Robert E. Lee whose dictum was that fiction weakened the mind.
Current project is to sort all biographies on Project Gutenberg chronologically so as to read them thus and develop a better sense of history.
Slashdot Mirror
Instructions for trimming a quill along w/ ink mixing are in any decent book on calligraphy.
NB you can't use a freshly plucked quill, it has to be clarified by aging or heat.
You'll also need a sharp pen knife --- A.G. Russell's sells a replica of the one Washington used.
I still miss my Rotring Quattro --- somehow it's the only pen I ever lost (twice! one a Levenger variant I've never seen on eBay).
Wish Bexley would branch out from fountain pens.
Agreed. I just wish they hadn't discontinued their Callipens line, but I see by your link they now have Calligrapher markers in 3 nib widths. Not as elegant a form factor, but I'll take one of each.
Thanks!
Used one in high school.
Non-archival and will burn into other pages and the back of the sheet.
A Pigma Micron is an archival (but fussier) alternative.
Slippery slope.
It's okay to kill humans under certain circumstances (self-defense &c.).
- a fetus doesn't have a beating heart until almost halfway through the first trimester (5th week --- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/prenatal-care/PR00112 )
- an amputation doesn't result in the death of a person, and no portion of a person likely to be amputated is likely to develop into a person.
- Cancerous tumors have no reasonable possibility to create a living person.
- ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny --- a fetus doesn't have a recognizable, human face until well after the 8th week ( http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/844962-overview )
- ``A fetus responds to the human voice'' --- not until ~16 weeks
The problems w/ outlawing abortion are that enforcement of it requires an invasion of a woman's privacy which is problematic:
- can't allow pregnant women to travel to anywhere abortion is legal (unless on effects a world-wide ban)
- every mis-carriage / still-birth must be investigated as a potential murder
- rape becomes an effective method for a man to procreate
For my part, I'd rather that all the effort which goes into anti-abortion to instead be put into caring for un-wanted children and single mothers. Once we've ensured that every woman who wishes to be pregnant is effectively cared for, then one might be able to justify doing something _to_ women who don't wish to be pregnant.
William
in 1989, ~11 years before this patent was granted.
I call prior art.
William
quizzing and social integration.
William
(who aligned w/ one of the 2 main party candidates at www.isidewith.com but is voting for Gary Johnson, Libertarian)
- too expensive
- too confusing (it's obvious that the iPad won't run Mac OS X apps, it's not obvious that the RT Surface won't run Windows apps)
- too late
(and I write this as a guy who'd like to replace his Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PC w/ a Surface (Intel version, if it's possible to install Mac OS X on it)
Yeah, that was exactly what I was thinking.
There was also a mention in Marvel Comics, forget the title, starring Shang-Chi of the CIA developing race-specific genetic weapons.
Somehow, we missed the science fiction story where:
``... the protagonists are would-be thieves or revolutionaries who seem to have all the superstitiousness of medieval peasants, but it turns out that it's merely behaviour to defend against such high-tech genetic snooping.'' ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3192557&cid=41689163 )
Agreed.
It doesn't help that I'm still raging about _The Last Story_ inexplicably _not_ having an _option_ for using IR pointing when aiming the crossbow or looking around. _Xenoblade Chronicles_ not using motion controls was bad enough, but at least it didn't rub it in one's face --- TLS actually makes me angry every time I encounter the Seek prompt, or need to use the crossbow.
The sad thing is, some of the games which I've enjoyed the most were on the Wii (Red Steel 2, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, 007 Goldeneye) and it seems that that style of gameplay is not being carried on for new games on the Wii U.
Announce a Motion Plus controlled RPG w/ a commitment to on-going DLC and w/ an on-line experience as good as or better than TLS and I'll buy a Wii U --- until then, I'll wait for the next Zelda (so long as it uses Skyward Sword-style Motion Plus controls).
While I prefer to use a slate (use a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 Tablet PC as my main machine for web-browsing, writing, editing, notes, drawing, sketching, drawing up wood-working plans, LaTeX typesetting and some light programming), a convertible literally is the ``Best of Both Worlds'' (for those who're willing to carry the extra weight of the keyboard and deal w/ the hinge mechanism). I'd be glad to be able to run Mac OS X on the Intel version of the MS Surface.
Apple should remember this from a time when they marketed a laptop (PowerBook Duo) and a docking station which swallowed the portable unit as if it were a VCR tape and allowed one to use external keyboard, mouse and monitor on one's desktop.
Similarly, Sony's Tap 20 ( http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/tablets/sony-vaio-tap-20.aspx ) is an all-in-one w/ a 2 hour battery and a stand which allows one to move it around and lay it flat for a more flexible usage. If we could get an option for that sort of thing in an iMac, we might be able to get our proofreaders to buy into soft-proofing jobs on-screen.
No, steering clutch dis-engagement should _require_ constant application of power (pushing against a set of springs or some such) --- any loss would result in it being re-engaged.
Since the Sony Tab 20 is a Windows x86 machine, you should be able to run anything you'd like on it:
http://www.wpcentral.com/look-at-sony-vaio-tab-20-windows-8-pc
That said, if you're billable rate is high enough, and you need a beefier machine you should probably just get a monitor for your existing machine which has stylus support (there's a 24" model which has touch):
http://www.wacom.com/products/pen-displays/cintiq/cintiq-22hd
Your wish is Sony's command. Presenting the Tab 20:
http://www.wpcentral.com/look-at-sony-vaio-tab-20-windows-8-pc
20" display, 2 hour battery.
So do I, but it's a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PC w/ a Wacom digitizer and pressure-sensitive stylus. I draw, sketch, create plans for woodworking projects, design typefaces, do some light programming and typesetting using (La)TeX and keep several decades worth of notes on it. The slate form-factor is well-suited to design work, and it's nice to be able to do this pretty much anywhere (Fujitsu has a history of offering daylight-viewable transflective displays, which my ST-4121 has). It also makes a very nice map reader for long trips.
Looking forward to the MS Surface and hoping that there's a standardized way to install Mac OS X on it (hopefully 10.6, since I need to keep FreeHand MX).
The way I'd build it would be that the steering clutch is _always_ engaged by default, and is disengaged when the drive-by-wire system is functioning properly --- any error, loss-of-power, or other problem w/ the drive-by-wire system results in the steering clutch being re-engaged.
Yes, but given that a 20" LCD TV is ~$350, I couldn't take the OP's price point seriously, and it's a rare device which doesn't eventually go for less than list price.
Blowing mod points...
First device in that space for this season is Sony's Tap 20:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2011644/sony-tap-20-review-a-windows-8-all-in-one-thats-also-a-humongous-tablet.html
20" 1600 x 900 pixel display.
William
You're saying they can sequence a life form in one lab and reconstruct it in another lab w/o a physical template of any kind?
Has there been a breakthrough beyond:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/scientists-create-first-self-replicating-synthetic-life/
(which AIUI required the shell an existing cell)
by how easy it is to use .tex for one's manuscript.
There are no reputable math journals which require Microsoft Word.
where the protagonists are would-be thieves or revolutionaries who seem to have all the superstitiousness of medieval peasants, but it turns out that it's merely behaviour to defend against such high-tech genetic snooping.
Printing currency needs to be something which can't be whipped up in the basement, or one will have massive counterfeiting.
Same here --- but I'm wondering how easy it will be to install Mac OS X on it.
There's also the physics of energy density, &c. --- remember the ads in the back of Popular Mechanics for the hovercraft one could make using a vacuum cleaner? They'd work, but one couldn't go farther than the extension cord plugged into the wall.
As a contraption gets smaller you lose more mass in proportion to mechanical structure and have much less volume
Books from childhood:
_Divers Down! Adventure Beneath Hawai'ian Seas_ --- Hal Gordon: love of the ocean, technology, work ethic and respect for other cultures
_Swiss Family Robinson_ --- Johann Wyss: work ethic, love of outdoors,attitude toward survival
_Mad Scientist Club books_ --- Bertrand R. Brinley: love of science
_Dark is Rising pentalogy_ --- Susan Cooper: the wide world and its place in history
_Lyonesse:Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc_ --- Jack Vance: high fantasy, gender relations
_The 26 Letters_ --- Oscar Ogg:love of the written word, appreciation of its history
_ A Short History of the Printed Word_ --- Warren Chappell: ove of the typography, appreciation of its history
_TeX and Metafont_ --- Don Knuth: how computers would affect typography
_ Space Cadet_ --- Robert Heinlein: understanding of education and service
_Last of the Breed_ --- Louis L'Amour: love of archery
_Looking for a Ship_ --- John McPhee: how a changing world affects a career
_Doorways in the Sand_ --- Roger Zelazny: nature of education
_Bridge of Birds_ --- Barry Hughart: love and laughter
For all that there's a lot of fiction on the list. I wonder if I shouldn't have read more biographies starting w/ Robert E. Lee whose dictum was that fiction weakened the mind.
Current project is to sort all biographies on Project Gutenberg chronologically so as to read them thus and develop a better sense of history.