I completed a BSc. Electrical Engineering degree - 8, I think mathematics courses - without using a single calculator in an exam. The mathematics department, quite rightly, forbade their use. They have no part in a mathematics exam, as does any exam that requires you to use a calculator. Why not just substiute x and use values that cancel out, or work out nicely? It has the benefit of helping you know you've done something gravely stupid.
Calculators, and use of symbolic integration and other packages were of course heavily encouraged to - get this - HELP YOU LEARN THE CONCEPTS so you can do well on the exams.
My other engineering courses didn't care too much what you used, so long as you weren't connecting externally. This is a problem with using a netbook, but the same principle applies. Make the exams sane so you don't need to use a calculator at all!
I graduated in 2000 - 11 years now - so these concepts should not be revolutionary.
Fire the lazy, no good teachers who can't write a decent exam. My stats course was famously open-book, with a cheat sheet. None of which would help you worth a damn on the exam if you didn't do the work.
Nobody is going to pay full retail for an electronic version, it ain't happening. Alternatively come up with a global pass system ala hulu that allows you to read lots of magazines for a flat fee.
Otherwise, $6.99 buys a lot of 3G time to look at your website. For free.
- There is no "climate" of earth over timeframes that homo sapiens has existed. - The current "climate" is an anomaly in the geologic record. - We do not understand fully the systems that monitor climate and temperature on earth, Sun included. - Much colder and much warmer temperatures are greater islands of climate stability in the geologic record. - The earth has sustained and thrived after much worse change than we are introducing. - The best way to regulate climate change and emissions is zero population growth. (less people) - Nuclear power is the only sane technology we have to lower emissions.
There are lots more. Don't forget to recycle.. and keep your mouth shut.
Their bandwidth is shared per access point the same way your router is. Stream a bunch of video connections over your 5.8GHz router and you will see the problem first hand.
When you can carry around the sum total of humanity's creative works in a backpack that's easily copied, traditional notions of intellectual property become meaningless. No amount of legal penalty will change this. The drive to share the experience of new information is too strong.
If someone makes a phone with the hardware quality and features the iphone has - not plasticy feeling junk - and gets Android on there, you're cooking with gas.
For the record, MS dominated because there was ONE common platform. This included sound and video standards. Remember IRQ conflicts? EMM?
DirectX ended that and opened the door to dominance for Windows on the desktop for entertainment.
Right now the iphone continues to make the competition feel like junk.. and it has a solid, consistent API feature set.
My money is still on Apple for the time being. They're busy working on iphone 5. Everyone else is playing catchup to make the knockoff, cheapie version of 4.
My father has a PhD from a fancy school in the US. (Genetics)
When I was looking at a career path, he warned me off pure science. He was right.
Fighting for tenure and the climate towards R&D in general is nuts.
The days of Bell labs, PARC et. al were great - people forget many of the advances today came out of those investments made by public and private industry.
Now, increasingly, advances in semiconductor manufacturing, wireless tech - all comes from overseas.
Does anyone know - could these debug features be used to do something like break Operating System security models, leading to privilege escalation issues, or for other nefarious purposes?
Depending on how it is implemented, yes. Usually these operating modes require specific timing or hardware ports that are wired in silicon.
If they've got software overrides, possible timing chase conditions to trick timing, then yes, oh snap indeed.
[quote] I'm not aware that technology is a prerequisite for a free society. [/quote]
Stable government and law and order require an adequate, well developed and reliable means to feed people. Advanced technology is the only way to do this on the scale required today.
To say it is the fundamental language of science is absolute rubbish. The only "math" that is universally necessary in science is the logic required to formulate and test a solid hypothesis. .. formulating and testing a meaningful hypothesis requires grounding in statistics and differential equations.
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Pick up an android anything. Pick up an iAnything.
"Nobody will buy a $900 phone."
The irony being a lot of these MBA types wear $3000 watches. Stupid.
I completed a BSc. Electrical Engineering degree - 8, I think mathematics courses - without using a single calculator in an exam. The mathematics department, quite rightly, forbade their use. They have no part in a mathematics exam, as does any exam that requires you to use a calculator. Why not just substiute x and use values that cancel out, or work out nicely? It has the benefit of helping you know you've done something gravely stupid.
Calculators, and use of symbolic integration and other packages were of course heavily encouraged to - get this - HELP YOU LEARN THE CONCEPTS so you can do well on the exams.
My other engineering courses didn't care too much what you used, so long as you weren't connecting externally. This is a problem with using a netbook, but the same principle applies. Make the exams sane so you don't need to use a calculator at all!
I graduated in 2000 - 11 years now - so these concepts should not be revolutionary.
Fire the lazy, no good teachers who can't write a decent exam. My stats course was famously open-book, with a cheat sheet. None of which would help you worth a damn on the exam if you didn't do the work.
Lazy students? Lazy no good profs.
Search, don't sort.
EROEI.
The amount of oil the Saudi's have with a integer mulitple EROEI is a lot more interesting.. and probably, a lot better guarded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROEI
Microsoft hardware has always been pretty good.
Too bad they're a software company. :)
God, of course.
Energy in a barrel of oil ~ 1.7MWh
Energy per sq. m bright sunlight - 1kW/m^2
10 m^2 x 10h = 10kWh (about 30x30')
1700kWh per barrel / 10kWh/day = ~170 days.
Assuming 100% conversion. 30-40% is probably wildly optimistic.
Here's to burning coal and building nuclear reactors. :)
Put issues in the iBookstore for $0.99.
Add a subscribe option.
Profit.
Nobody is going to pay full retail for an electronic version, it ain't happening. Alternatively come up with a global pass system ala hulu that allows you to read lots of magazines for a flat fee.
Otherwise, $6.99 buys a lot of 3G time to look at your website. For free.
..at least six (73 de VE1SFM)
..that's ok, I just started burning coal. :)
..none of said freaks are out selling their houses that they won't need after 2012, either.
There's lots of things that must never be said.
- There is no "climate" of earth over timeframes that homo sapiens has existed.
- The current "climate" is an anomaly in the geologic record.
- We do not understand fully the systems that monitor climate and temperature on earth, Sun included.
- Much colder and much warmer temperatures are greater islands of climate stability in the geologic record.
- The earth has sustained and thrived after much worse change than we are introducing.
- The best way to regulate climate change and emissions is zero population growth. (less people)
- Nuclear power is the only sane technology we have to lower emissions.
There are lots more. Don't forget to recycle.. and keep your mouth shut.
I have an electrical engineering degree from a decent school. I started in 1994.
I never saw a computer my whole time in a lecture.
I never used a calculator once in a calculus, differential equations, linear matrices, or complex multivariable calculus. They were banned.
Lectures were for listening and learning. Tutorials for questions. Labs were for learning and building.
Articles such as these make me very worried about what university education is turning into.
Anything that makes you look like a dork will never take off.
3D glasses are a pain in the ass if you have real glasses, and you look like a dork.
A vastly better investment would be a multi-gigabit FTTH infrastructure to allow for actual tele-presence and remote working from the suburbs.
Commuting is stupid, as is most business travel.
You can own and distribute an e-book just like paper. Except the e-book can be published with a click.
What you mean to say is closed, monitored systems like Kindle and iBookStore will never replace owned material.
So much for the cloud.
WiMAX and 3G LTE will collapse streaming video.
Their bandwidth is shared per access point the same way your router is. Stream a bunch of video connections over your 5.8GHz router and you will see the problem first hand.
You can't enforce artificial scarcity in an environment where storage capacity is free.
Do you think home photos are driving HD capacities, or this research?
When you can carry around the sum total of humanity's creative works in a backpack that's easily copied, traditional notions of intellectual property become meaningless. No amount of legal penalty will change this. The drive to share the experience of new information is too strong.
Adapt or die.
Yay! You've just guaranteed me 1000 core video cards for 2011. :D
If someone makes a phone with the hardware quality and features the iphone has - not plasticy feeling junk - and gets Android on there, you're cooking with gas.
For the record, MS dominated because there was ONE common platform. This included sound and video standards. Remember IRQ conflicts? EMM?
DirectX ended that and opened the door to dominance for Windows on the desktop for entertainment.
Right now the iphone continues to make the competition feel like junk.. and it has a solid, consistent API feature set.
My money is still on Apple for the time being. They're busy working on iphone 5. Everyone else is playing catchup to make the knockoff, cheapie version of 4.
My father has a PhD from a fancy school in the US. (Genetics)
When I was looking at a career path, he warned me off pure science. He was right.
Fighting for tenure and the climate towards R&D in general is nuts.
The days of Bell labs, PARC et. al were great - people forget many of the advances today came out of those investments made by public and private industry.
Now, increasingly, advances in semiconductor manufacturing, wireless tech - all comes from overseas.
Sigh.
Does anyone know - could these debug features be used to do something like break Operating System security models, leading to privilege escalation issues, or for other nefarious purposes?
Depending on how it is implemented, yes. Usually these operating modes require specific timing or hardware ports that are wired in silicon.
If they've got software overrides, possible timing chase conditions to trick timing, then yes, oh snap indeed.
[quote]
I'm not aware that technology is a prerequisite for a free society.
[/quote]
Stable government and law and order require an adequate, well developed and reliable means to feed people. Advanced technology is the only way to do this on the scale required today.
To say it is the fundamental language of science is absolute rubbish. The only "math" that is universally necessary in science is the logic required to formulate and test a solid hypothesis.