For liberal arts classes, One Note absolutely rocks. You can record the lecture while you type and the recording is indexed according to your typing. You can go back later, click on your notes and tada, the lecture comes up at the appropriate time. VERY, VERY cool stuff.
For Math/Science, I think you would need a tablet to work effectively and be completely electronic. Drawing with a pad just doesn't work to well.
Just like when another President decided to invade Iraq basically based on his "gut instinct".
You make small purchases based on "gut instinct". You do not dedicated large organization to an arduous task using "gut instinct".
Shooting from the hip is over-rated as the success stories are trumpeted. However, the you never here about the far more frequent colossal failures.
BTW, leadership is when you walk in a direction and people willingly follow you. When you have to drag everyone kicking and screaming at gunpoing, that's called a death march.
The universe is an illusion of your perception. That perception is created within your own mind.
Yes everything is real. But the REAL universe is very different from the image your mind constructs. We think of matter as something real and tangible. In reality we do not see matter at all. If we could, there would be virtually nothing to see. Everything would be transparent. We see and percieve FORCES and ENERGY, not matter.
And if you're schizophrenic, you also notice god talking to you all time;-) Whether or not god is actually real is immaterial, it is part of your perception, hence it is part of you universe.
I'll add that in this scenario Marty travels back in time in front of the mall and never reappears. He leaves that timeline and moves to a new one. Doc presumably dies because that Doctor Brown never received Marty's warning about the terrorists and didn't wear a bullet proof vest.
The movies did contain one thing that seemed inconsistent with reason. When they left Jennifer on the porch of the house that WAS her's in the original timeline, she should have stayed in the town ruled by Biff.
Of course, that was governed by the rule of "It's really hard to write Jennifer into the 50s comic book plot and the BTTF 3 plot, so let's just leave her on the porch."
While I sympathize with his notion on space-time not being independent of matter, he asserts that all positions are absolute. The problem is, to have absolute location, you need an absolute substrate on which to place. In which case everything is always moving, so you would have to express all position as quadratic vectors.
The universe is indeed a strange place. Physicists are NOT cracked. They know full well that their work is incomplete as they are all in some way or another searching for grand unification. No doubt, it will be the result of newly observed phenomenon which may spawn new forces which will require an even grander unification.
Some apps support VGA, some do not. It's a 640x480 screen and the apps that support it are rendered in 640x480 regardless of what size the font is.
That's like saying that my laptop monitor isn't 1024x768 because I can actually read the text. Yes, I can render True Type fonts at 5 points, but that doesn't mean I want to.
That SE VGA app you pointed to is REALLY stupid. Why would you want to run a QVGA app on a quarter of your screen for the sake of the goofy claim that it is NOW being rendered in a VGA space?
This can all be remedied with $10 worth of spray paint and a decal.
SGI has been living in a bygone era. They literally are the modern mainframe.
Once upon a time, SGI sat in the drivers seat for providing services and software to an eager market. Instead, they relied on selling outrageously over-priced proprietary hardware while their competitors chiselled away at their market by selling toys that eventually were more sophisticated than anything SGI could offer.
And what about the software? 3rd parties have all swooped in and developed 3D graphics suites. So SGI is effectively cutoff from the Sega escape, become a software only company.
SGI is now in "startup" mode. They have to find a new business. I don't know why anyone would want to buy SGI. It has no consumer level brand recognition. The kind of people who buy high end workstations are immune from the stickers on the cases.
Best case, somebody comes in and buys the rights to brand their Graphics cards as SGI. The rest of SGI is relegated to a service shop for the dwindling number of SGI users.
Unless you're editing a movie, it really doesn't make sense considering time as a an axis. It's almost as if time is a cohesion of forces expressed cumulatively across all forces in the universe. As objects move, the relative difference in forces expresses a change. That is time.
So perhaps time would be best understood not as a straight line, but as water sloshing around in a bathtub.
Another aspect of space-time may be a non-uniform fabric. We understand gravity as a curvature of space time. Perhaps there are multiple space times expressed via the three of the fundamental forces. Different fundamental particles are either affected or immune via these overlapping space-times. Particles affect one another via strong nuclear forces. These particles in turn affects the behavior of the whole as expressed across the three space times: gravity, electro-magnetism and weak nuclear.
We shouldn't forget the effect that the sun and moon's gravitation may have on the orbit of satellites. VERY, VERY minor I agree. But perhaps enough to explain some anomolies.
Well, I'd have to say that EVERY Cardassian on screen had a serious Obsessive Compulsive problem. The ferengi were obvious... PURE, UNBRIDLED, GREED.
The whole Dominion thing was interesting because it was a caste society that was quite deliberate in assigning species to roles. The Vorta were the beuracrats. The Founders were the aristocratic liesure class. The Jem-Ha'Dar weren't even warriors. They were programmed biological weapons with no value besides self sacrifice (Klingons have greed and a nasty independent streak).
The trills were interesting as a source of OLD, DEEP wisdom contrasted with the avarice of youth.
Star Trek lost it's purpose after Gene died. What was that purpose??? Why, it was thinly veiled liberal ideology acted out between humans and aliens.
I don't think the suits ever GOT the notion that Star Trek was sociology, not science fiction. The moment they tried to explain some bit of techno-babble was the moment they started losing me.
Voyager and Enterprise was a complete waste of film. I stand proudly by my fondness of DS9. Man that Quark was FUNNY!!!!
I think you would have Violet in college. Violet's (or PhaseForce (think of some other hero name)) relationship with her mother would be very strained as most of them are. This would be right before Violet goes off to college where some of her new classmates are actually part of a new super-hero team.
Violet has to find her way in this new world. She would see her forging a new relationship with Edna, and we would see Edna pushing her buttons to do things and actually getting her to rebel even more against her mother.
At the same time, the Incredibles would be hosting a new youngin' and training them. This would set up mixed mixed emotions of jealously for the attention that Helen is giving on her new protege. At the same time, the tension between mother and daughter are still there.
Violet's team would be let by one of the few supers that Syndrome didn't find. This person would be someone that Helen NEVER liked and doesn't approve of. He will be somewhat of a nare-do-well and frankly, somewhat of a lech.
Dash (he needs a Hero name to (say Double Time)), will be experiencing the pain of comparing to his younger and obviously more talented little brother. He will be acting out even more and getting the group into trouble.
We will find out that Mirage isn't just a name. She always had the power to affect people's perceptions. She is an excellent manipulator. And given her turning against Syndrome and her experience tracking down supers, she will be with the Super agency and possibly even vying to replace Carl (or whatever the old guys name is). Mirage is inherintely good had heart but still capable of mischief. Mirage's presence in the Super Hero agency bugs Helen to no end.
Bob's challenge will be his role as the "uber-hero" in this new era. He will find out that there are too many demands on his time. Even more than in the "good ole days". Bob will be moving around coaching the new super-hero squads, and of course Mirage will be involved with all those introductions.
The resolution to all this comes when the new "threat emerges" as a super-powerfu l new super. Mr Incredible must lead the Incredibles and two other new teams to face this new threat. He (maybe she) will be a hotshot with extra-ordinary powers and friends in high places.
It's about as reasonable a premise as the computer virus assault against the aliens in Independence Day.
BUZZ IS A [b]TOY. TEEE OOOOW WHYYYYYY. TTTOOOOOOOYYYYYYY.[/b] He is not a computer or a speak and spell.
What, maybe Buzz's voice box goes out? That's already been covered. He'll go up on the shelf with squeaky and Mom will buy him another deluded Buzz Lightyear doll.
I think they will do a Toy Story 3 when the right story comes along. And eventually they will have to deal with all the toys when Andy gets older. Kinda like the last episode of Mash.
I heard that a Monsters Inc 2 was well on the way. It dealt with Monsters Inc and Fairies LLC merging and the resulting corporate chaos and infighting that ensues. Tinkerbell emerges as a strong female character as managing partner at Fairies LLC.
Meanwhile, Boogeymen international tries to take advantage of the chaos to increase their market share and subsequently force a hostile takeover of Monsters Inc.
The young people who grow up and take the reigns of power in China will have just as much of a vested interest in maintaining their power as their elders did.
Capitalism and Democracy are NOT joined at the hip. What China has become is a fascist country where the power resides in a collusion of oligarchs (corpratists) and beuracrats.
The people who have no right to vote for their leaders are COMPLETELY removed from the process. They are children of the state. And eastern culture is quite clear. The children serve the parents, not the other way around.
China's embrace of unregulated capitalism (save protecting the state) is far more disturbing than communism. Planned economies do not work and it creates a large incentive for disaffected masses to rebel. However the introduction of a token middle class could have a tendency to short circuit the whole affair as anger against the state is redirected against the guy one step up the ladder (bugeouise) rather than the people sitting at the top.
I don't believe that Google's refusal would make any difference.
However, I do believe that willfully aiding and profiteering from the repression of others is fundamentally evil.
A gangster could come up to you on the street and ask you to fence stolen goods. You would be VERY well compensated. And you could reason that if you didn't do it, someone else would. At the end of the day though, you are supporting theft.
A moral person who had an alternative would walk away and allow that someone else to do evil.
Google is lending it's name and it's support to the Chinese memory hole.
Someone else may very well cease the opportunity to do evil. That doesn't mean that you SHOULD.
And BTW, those who think that America will EVER make a net dime exporting to China is fooling themselves. It will ALWAYS be cheaper to exploit indenturerd servants (state slaves) than dealing with free workers with collective bargaining capability.
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The columnist at CNET is talking about it, that's free publicity. If it was really uninteresting, he wouldn't had bothered tapping any keys about it.
For liberal arts classes, One Note absolutely rocks. You can record the lecture while you type and the recording is indexed according to your typing. You can go back later, click on your notes and tada, the lecture comes up at the appropriate time. VERY, VERY cool stuff.
For Math/Science, I think you would need a tablet to work effectively and be completely electronic. Drawing with a pad just doesn't work to well.
Either that or just get Andy Serkis to do it ;-)
Remember when the Skeksies and the Mystics merge again and fly off into space. I think Jim would have liked to think of his leaving earth like that.
He's out there in the void now. He's everywhere and no where.
Without muppetry, I don't think the world would be the same. It is absoluetly amazing what the Henson Creature shop accomplishes.
I hope if they DO do the CGI that they figure out how to make their actors LOOK like the original muppet actors with the generally soft edges.
Just like when another President decided to invade Iraq basically based on his "gut instinct".
You make small purchases based on "gut instinct". You do not dedicated large organization to an arduous task using "gut instinct".
Shooting from the hip is over-rated as the success stories are trumpeted. However, the you never here about the far more frequent colossal failures.
BTW, leadership is when you walk in a direction and people willingly follow you. When you have to drag everyone kicking and screaming at gunpoing, that's called a death march.
The universe is an illusion of your perception. That perception is created within your own mind.
Yes everything is real. But the REAL universe is very different from the image your mind constructs. We think of matter as something real and tangible. In reality we do not see matter at all. If we could, there would be virtually nothing to see. Everything would be transparent. We see and percieve FORCES and ENERGY, not matter.
And if you're schizophrenic, you also notice god talking to you all time
I'll add that in this scenario Marty travels back in time in front of the mall and never reappears. He leaves that timeline and moves to a new one. Doc presumably dies because that Doctor Brown never received Marty's warning about the terrorists and didn't wear a bullet proof vest.
The movies did contain one thing that seemed inconsistent with reason. When they left Jennifer on the porch of the house that WAS her's in the original timeline, she should have stayed in the town ruled by Biff.
Of course, that was governed by the rule of "It's really hard to write Jennifer into the 50s comic book plot and the BTTF 3 plot, so let's just leave her on the porch."
While I sympathize with his notion on space-time not being independent of matter, he asserts that all positions are absolute. The problem is, to have absolute location, you need an absolute substrate on which to place. In which case everything is always moving, so you would have to express all position as quadratic vectors.
The universe is indeed a strange place. Physicists are NOT cracked. They know full well that their work is incomplete as they are all in some way or another searching for grand unification. No doubt, it will be the result of newly observed phenomenon which may spawn new forces which will require an even grander unification.
Some apps support VGA, some do not. It's a 640x480 screen and the apps that support it are rendered in 640x480 regardless of what size the font is.
That's like saying that my laptop monitor isn't 1024x768 because I can actually read the text. Yes, I can render True Type fonts at 5 points, but that doesn't mean I want to.
That SE VGA app you pointed to is REALLY stupid. Why would you want to run a QVGA app on a quarter of your screen for the sake of the goofy claim that it is NOW being rendered in a VGA space?
This can all be remedied with $10 worth of spray paint and a decal.
SGI has been living in a bygone era. They literally are the modern mainframe.
Once upon a time, SGI sat in the drivers seat for providing services and software to an eager market. Instead, they relied on selling outrageously over-priced proprietary hardware while their competitors chiselled away at their market by selling toys that eventually were more sophisticated than anything SGI could offer.
And what about the software? 3rd parties have all swooped in and developed 3D graphics suites. So SGI is effectively cutoff from the Sega escape, become a software only company.
SGI is now in "startup" mode. They have to find a new business. I don't know why anyone would want to buy SGI. It has no consumer level brand recognition. The kind of people who buy high end workstations are immune from the stickers on the cases.
Best case, somebody comes in and buys the rights to brand their Graphics cards as SGI. The rest of SGI is relegated to a service shop for the dwindling number of SGI users.
Linux/Intel is the future of high end rendering.
VGA Pocket PCs are 640x480.
The point is that the Palm OS is kinda done with. Palm is making devices with Windows Mobile now. There is a reason for that.
Apple would be better off going with pocket linux. Or, in their case, pocket BSD.
Well, perhaps he was just too rich to eat mouldy bread. Perhaps a peasent stone-mason would have survived the same wound.
Unless you're editing a movie, it really doesn't make sense considering time as a an axis. It's almost as if time is a cohesion of forces expressed cumulatively across all forces in the universe. As objects move, the relative difference in forces expresses a change. That is time.
So perhaps time would be best understood not as a straight line, but as water sloshing around in a bathtub.
Another aspect of space-time may be a non-uniform fabric. We understand gravity as a curvature of space time. Perhaps there are multiple space times expressed via the three of the fundamental forces. Different fundamental particles are either affected or immune via these overlapping space-times. Particles affect one another via strong nuclear forces. These particles in turn affects the behavior of the whole as expressed across the three space times: gravity, electro-magnetism and weak nuclear.
Those were my thoughts.
We shouldn't forget the effect that the sun and moon's gravitation may have on the orbit of satellites. VERY, VERY minor I agree. But perhaps enough to explain some anomolies.
Well, I'd have to say that EVERY Cardassian on screen had a serious Obsessive Compulsive problem. The ferengi were obvious
The whole Dominion thing was interesting because it was a caste society that was quite deliberate in assigning species to roles. The Vorta were the beuracrats. The Founders were the aristocratic liesure class. The Jem-Ha'Dar weren't even warriors. They were programmed biological weapons with no value besides self sacrifice (Klingons have greed and a nasty independent streak).
The trills were interesting as a source of OLD, DEEP wisdom contrasted with the avarice of youth.
So yeah, I think that DS9 had something to offer.
Star Trek lost it's purpose after Gene died. What was that purpose??? Why, it was thinly veiled liberal ideology acted out between humans and aliens.
I don't think the suits ever GOT the notion that Star Trek was sociology, not science fiction. The moment they tried to explain some bit of techno-babble was the moment they started losing me.
Voyager and Enterprise was a complete waste of film. I stand proudly by my fondness of DS9. Man that Quark was FUNNY!!!!
You would move forward a few years.
I think you would have Violet in college. Violet's (or PhaseForce (think of some other hero name)) relationship with her mother would be very strained as most of them are. This would be right before Violet goes off to college where some of her new classmates are actually part of a new super-hero team.
Violet has to find her way in this new world. She would see her forging a new relationship with Edna, and we would see Edna pushing her buttons to do things and actually getting her to rebel even more against her mother.
At the same time, the Incredibles would be hosting a new youngin' and training them. This would set up mixed mixed emotions of jealously for the attention that Helen is giving on her new protege. At the same time, the tension between mother and daughter are still there.
Violet's team would be let by one of the few supers that Syndrome didn't find. This person would be someone that Helen NEVER liked and doesn't approve of. He will be somewhat of a nare-do-well and frankly, somewhat of a lech.
Dash (he needs a Hero name to (say Double Time)), will be experiencing the pain of comparing to his younger and obviously more talented little brother. He will be acting out even more and getting the group into trouble.
We will find out that Mirage isn't just a name. She always had the power to affect people's perceptions. She is an excellent manipulator. And given her turning against Syndrome and her experience tracking down supers, she will be with the Super agency and possibly even vying to replace Carl (or whatever the old guys name is). Mirage is inherintely good had heart but still capable of mischief. Mirage's presence in the Super Hero agency bugs Helen to no end.
Bob's challenge will be his role as the "uber-hero" in this new era. He will find out that there are too many demands on his time. Even more than in the "good ole days". Bob will be moving around coaching the new super-hero squads, and of course Mirage will be involved with all those introductions.
The resolution to all this comes when the new "threat emerges" as a super-powerfu l new super. Mr Incredible must lead the Incredibles and two other new teams to face this new threat. He (maybe she) will be a hotshot with extra-ordinary powers and friends in high places.
It's about as reasonable a premise as the computer virus assault against the aliens in Independence Day.
BUZZ IS A [b]TOY. TEEE OOOOW WHYYYYYY. TTTOOOOOOOYYYYYYY.[/b] He is not a computer or a speak and spell.
What, maybe Buzz's voice box goes out? That's already been covered. He'll go up on the shelf with squeaky and Mom will buy him another deluded Buzz Lightyear doll.
I think they will do a Toy Story 3 when the right story comes along. And eventually they will have to deal with all the toys when Andy gets older. Kinda like the last episode of Mash.
I heard that a Monsters Inc 2 was well on the way. It dealt with Monsters Inc and Fairies LLC merging and the resulting corporate chaos and infighting that ensues. Tinkerbell emerges as a strong female character as managing partner at Fairies LLC.
Meanwhile, Boogeymen international tries to take advantage of the chaos to increase their market share and subsequently force a hostile takeover of Monsters Inc.
It's a real thriller.
The young people who grow up and take the reigns of power in China will have just as much of a vested interest in maintaining their power as their elders did.
Capitalism and Democracy are NOT joined at the hip. What China has become is a fascist country where the power resides in a collusion of oligarchs (corpratists) and beuracrats.
The people who have no right to vote for their leaders are COMPLETELY removed from the process. They are children of the state. And eastern culture is quite clear. The children serve the parents, not the other way around.
China's embrace of unregulated capitalism (save protecting the state) is far more disturbing than communism. Planned economies do not work and it creates a large incentive for disaffected masses to rebel. However the introduction of a token middle class could have a tendency to short circuit the whole affair as anger against the state is redirected against the guy one step up the ladder (bugeouise) rather than the people sitting at the top.
I don't believe that Google's refusal would make any difference.
However, I do believe that willfully aiding and profiteering from the repression of others is fundamentally evil.
A gangster could come up to you on the street and ask you to fence stolen goods. You would be VERY well compensated. And you could reason that if you didn't do it, someone else would. At the end of the day though, you are supporting theft.
A moral person who had an alternative would walk away and allow that someone else to do evil.
Google is lending it's name and it's support to the Chinese memory hole.
Someone else may very well cease the opportunity to do evil. That doesn't mean that you SHOULD.
And BTW, those who think that America will EVER make a net dime exporting to China is fooling themselves. It will ALWAYS be cheaper to exploit indenturerd servants (state slaves) than dealing with free workers with collective bargaining capability.
Murder and slavery isn't impossible to duplicate. That doesn't mean you should engage in it under threat that someone else will.