I found a Spectrumarticle about jacks, plugs and sockets. I cannot recall whether my professor said "socket" or "jack."
Your post is nonsense. I felt puzzled because the verb has a separate date, 15th century, from the noun, 1533. The two disagree blatantly. The two differ by at least 32 years. You misunderstood the Merriam-Webster clarification of dates and incorrectly blamed it on the database. Additionally, the 1828 link you provide, while it does not list "socket" as a verb, does list "unsocket" as a verb.
I checked to OED. Needless to write, I am right. "1533 Lett. & P. Hen. VIII, VI. 642 For mendyng and sockettyng newe Cressytts." Henry VIII most definitely was not American, but English. Next time you consider being pedantic, make sure to be correct, too.
"Socket" already is a verb. It has been for at least 470 years. Obviously, one can plug a plug into a socket. Similarly, one can socket a plug with a socket. The nouns and the verbs match well. I never heard anyone talking about maling or femaling connectors together. "Connect" is another perfectly good verb. After all, aren't they all connectors? As the great LAPD ass whup victim Rodney King opined, "Can't we all just get along?"
You must not know. I heard about this move several years ago while studying electrical engineering. They are now called plugs, formerly male connectors and sockets, formerly female connectors. Check out this Google search to see. As long as we can speak to one another with minimal confusion, why would anyone resist the change?
We don't need stupid microwaves on the moon. We need to chrome the moon. Just imagine how shiny it would be. It is obviously much better than making the moon into some goofball giant telephone tower that nobody could ever like.
While we are speculating on the wonderful future, never forget that someday mankind will reach its acme and pave the earth.
You might enjoy Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. I heard him talk about it recently. He went through various one dimensional cellular automata. Most settle into obvious patterns, but a few look less regular. He used their appearance as evidence for his ideas. I did not feel so convinced, however. In his talk, he never brought up a formal measure for what he described as randomness, and I stayed a little confused throughout about which systems he described are inherently random, which are very sensitive to rules and startng conditions and which just look weird. He probably has made finer distinctions elsewhere. I'm sure that others have researched the space of all possible logic wirings for given numbers of universal gates because it is an obvious task to undertake, but I am not familiar with such work.
As covered elsewhere, this stunt generates publicity. Your analysis is too simple. If the free advertising surrounding the story outpaces the legal fees, they win, potentially win big.
Fox and Fox both stand to gain from a fake news story on Fox about Fox versus Fox. This Fox against Fox story gains Fox coverage from Fox and other non-Fox media. I'm suspicious that this Fox stunt is just a way to get Fox attention and to boost the popularity of Fox News and a slowly declining Fox show. Maybe I'm just suspicious of Fox and Fox, though.
The article missed some great mini-itx uses, projects that really need to be small. The automobile computer projects are great. The time for computers to coordinate sound systems and navigation has come.
How far away are the nano-itx boards? The footprint of a CD is amazing.
Will there be tiny boards with DVI connectors? Many applications in small spaces also benefit from small displays, not CRTs. LCDs and DVI go together particularly well.
I became curious about the possiblities of a dashboard computer a few weeks ago. Many people have done it themselves with mini-ITX and other low power, small form factor motherboards. A few companies sell car computers, but I have not been impressed. Currently, there are many separate systems on the market, such as DVD players for passengers and MP3 players for the stereo. Dashboard space is precious, though. Of course, there are the standard stereo and climate control dash components on the dash, too. Navigation is another clearly useful role. One system, although possibly using mostly independent parts for stability reasons, should allow all these features on the dash.
I read about Wayfinder at Howard Forums. It uses a Bluetooth GPS unit and a mobile phone running Symbian to provide navigation. Service currently is for western Europe. I do not think it includes information about current road conditions.
Navigation Technologies seems to be the system many automobile manufacturers are now selling in their cars. They release updates on CD or DVD, but they are annual. I have read users complain about outdated information.
Both of these approaches are incomplete. A better navigation system is obvious. It should have an onboard database, and it should communicate with a server farm. It would have some processing power and static information, probably distributed annually by DVD, so that it can remain useful even when there is no wireless signal. It also would connect through a cell network, possibly through a GSM/GPRS Bluetooth phone as in the Wayfinder approach, to query a server that has both updates of the slowly changing information, such as maps and phonebooks, and the quickly changing information, such as weather and traffic. It would interact via voice. Why I cannot buy such a system is beyond me.
Cool. If Rockefeller admissions work the way I think they do, interviewing means that you had the opportunity to attend. Rockefeller is a posh place with excellent science. Are you working with ion channels now?
What hypotheses do you mean? I guess voltage gating and inactivation, but I am curious.
I imagine that ion channels are so difficult to study because they depend on lipid and water environments and they probably are a bit harder to produce in high concentrations. I know that he mostly looks at bacterial ion channels.
How does the drug work? Does it increase insulin release? Does it increase insulin sensitivity? Does it reduce glucose release into the blood? The article is very lacking for basic drug information.
Certainly, type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic with huge costs for all of us. The best guard against type 2 diabetes is a healthy lifestyle. There was an interesting study a few years ago that used intensive lifestyle modification intervention for people with high risk. Diet and exercise showed big effects on who progressed to type 2 diabetes. Accomplishing such lifestyle changes on a big scale is extremely challenging, though.
God is like, real smart, so I bet if he needed to know something, he could think up a really good set of search terms and google it and find out without having to click to like the third page of results.
Reporter: The lion's share of this flight will be devoted to the study of the effects of weight lessness on tiny screws _ unbelievable, and of course this could have literally millions of applications here on Earth - from watchmaking to watch repair.
Buzz Aldrin: You fool. Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.
How much of that forthright emotional shit must we endure? People fly planes into buildings, occasionally on purpose. It happens.
9/11 spawned some good jokes. They cannot be put in the mass media, though, because we're still being sincere.
One guy on 9/11/2002: The Simpsons isn't showing. The terrorists truly have won.
Another guy on 9/11/2002: I'm mad that none of my favorite TV shows are on tonight. Yet another: Yeah, the same thing happened last year.
There is an undercurrent of disgust, boredom and spite that cuts through culture and life. It exists at many levels and many times. Sure, some people don't like irony, but I bet if we built some really huge buildings, we could fit all of them in them and then fly planes into the buildings. The only question is what the news coverage would be like.
In the play Educating Rita, the professor corrects Rita on the use of "tragedy" and "tragic." I see a similar conflict here in a clash between popular use and literary, educated use of "irony."
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I found a Spectrum article about jacks, plugs and sockets. I cannot recall whether my professor said "socket" or "jack."
Your post is nonsense. I felt puzzled because the verb has a separate date, 15th century, from the noun, 1533. The two disagree blatantly. The two differ by at least 32 years. You misunderstood the Merriam-Webster clarification of dates and incorrectly blamed it on the database. Additionally, the 1828 link you provide, while it does not list "socket" as a verb, does list "unsocket" as a verb.
I checked to OED. Needless to write, I am right. "1533 Lett. & P. Hen. VIII, VI. 642 For mendyng and sockettyng newe Cressytts." Henry VIII most definitely was not American, but English. Next time you consider being pedantic, make sure to be correct, too.
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"Socket" already is a verb. It has been for at least 470 years. Obviously, one can plug a plug into a socket. Similarly, one can socket a plug with a socket. The nouns and the verbs match well. I never heard anyone talking about maling or femaling connectors together. "Connect" is another perfectly good verb. After all, aren't they all connectors? As the great LAPD ass whup victim Rodney King opined, "Can't we all just get along?"
You must not know. I heard about this move several years ago while studying electrical engineering. They are now called plugs, formerly male connectors and sockets, formerly female connectors. Check out this Google search to see. As long as we can speak to one another with minimal confusion, why would anyone resist the change?
sed s/female/socket/ | sed s/male/plug/
We don't need stupid microwaves on the moon. We need to chrome the moon. Just imagine how shiny it would be. It is obviously much better than making the moon into some goofball giant telephone tower that nobody could ever like.
While we are speculating on the wonderful future, never forget that someday mankind will reach its acme and pave the earth.
You might enjoy Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. I heard him talk about it recently. He went through various one dimensional cellular automata. Most settle into obvious patterns, but a few look less regular. He used their appearance as evidence for his ideas. I did not feel so convinced, however. In his talk, he never brought up a formal measure for what he described as randomness, and I stayed a little confused throughout about which systems he described are inherently random, which are very sensitive to rules and startng conditions and which just look weird. He probably has made finer distinctions elsewhere.
I'm sure that others have researched the space of all possible logic wirings for given numbers of universal gates because it is an obvious task to undertake, but I am not familiar with such work.
What makes you think that quantum effects are necessary for machines that think?
As covered elsewhere, this stunt generates publicity. Your analysis is too simple. If the free advertising surrounding the story outpaces the legal fees, they win, potentially win big.
Fox and Fox both stand to gain from a fake news story on Fox about Fox versus Fox. This Fox against Fox story gains Fox coverage from Fox and other non-Fox media. I'm suspicious that this Fox stunt is just a way to get Fox attention and to boost the popularity of Fox News and a slowly declining Fox show. Maybe I'm just suspicious of Fox and Fox, though.
The article missed some great mini-itx uses, projects that really need to be small. The automobile computer projects are great. The time for computers to coordinate sound systems and navigation has come.
How far away are the nano-itx boards? The footprint of a CD is amazing.
Will there be tiny boards with DVI connectors? Many applications in small spaces also benefit from small displays, not CRTs. LCDs and DVI go together particularly well.
Mini-ITX
I became curious about the possiblities of a dashboard computer a few weeks ago. Many people have done it themselves with mini-ITX and other low power, small form factor motherboards. A few companies sell car computers, but I have not been impressed. Currently, there are many separate systems on the market, such as DVD players for passengers and MP3 players for the stereo. Dashboard space is precious, though. Of course, there are the standard stereo and climate control dash components on the dash, too. Navigation is another clearly useful role. One system, although possibly using mostly independent parts for stability reasons, should allow all these features on the dash.
I read about Wayfinder at Howard Forums. It uses a Bluetooth GPS unit and a mobile phone running Symbian to provide navigation. Service currently is for western Europe. I do not think it includes information about current road conditions.
Navigation Technologies seems to be the system many automobile manufacturers are now selling in their cars. They release updates on CD or DVD, but they are annual. I have read users complain about outdated information.
Both of these approaches are incomplete. A better navigation system is obvious. It should have an onboard database, and it should communicate with a server farm. It would have some processing power and static information, probably distributed annually by DVD, so that it can remain useful even when there is no wireless signal. It also would connect through a cell network, possibly through a GSM/GPRS Bluetooth phone as in the Wayfinder approach, to query a server that has both updates of the slowly changing information, such as maps and phonebooks, and the quickly changing information, such as weather and traffic. It would interact via voice. Why I cannot buy such a system is beyond me.
Cool. If Rockefeller admissions work the way I think they do, interviewing means that you had the opportunity to attend. Rockefeller is a posh place with excellent science. Are you working with ion channels now?
What hypotheses do you mean? I guess voltage gating and inactivation, but I am curious.
I imagine that ion channels are so difficult to study because they depend on lipid and water environments and they probably are a bit harder to produce in high concentrations. I know that he mostly looks at bacterial ion channels.
I want to know how to determine the wavelength of light that an LED will emit. Is it the simple function of the junction potential that I think it is?
wavelength = ( speed of light ) * ( Planck's constant ) / ( ( charge of an electron ) * ( junction potential ) )
The units work out correctly, but I have not been able to google what the real equation is.
Just to be safe, I suggest changing the story title.
Googling reveals strange ties to Brazil.
How does the drug work? Does it increase insulin release? Does it increase insulin sensitivity? Does it reduce glucose release into the blood? The article is very lacking for basic drug information.
Certainly, type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic with huge costs for all of us. The best guard against type 2 diabetes is a healthy lifestyle. There was an interesting study a few years ago that used intensive lifestyle modification intervention for people with high risk. Diet and exercise showed big effects on who progressed to type 2 diabetes. Accomplishing such lifestyle changes on a big scale is extremely challenging, though.
After looking, the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study is the one I read about.
As for people who already have type 2 diabetes, I do not know how much such lifestyle interventions can help.
People once had to wind their watches as often.
How much power can a self-charging watch get from the skin?
God is like, real smart, so I bet if he needed to know something, he could think up a really good set of search terms and google it and find out without having to click to like the third page of results.
Somebody has to turn the screwdriver.
Reporter: The lion's share of this flight will be devoted to the study of the effects of weight lessness on tiny screws _ unbelievable, and of course this could have literally millions of applications here on Earth - from watchmaking to watch repair.
Buzz Aldrin: You fool. Now we may never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.
How much of that forthright emotional shit must we endure? People fly planes into buildings, occasionally on purpose. It happens.
9/11 spawned some good jokes. They cannot be put in the mass media, though, because we're still being sincere.
One guy on 9/11/2002: The Simpsons isn't showing. The terrorists truly have won.
Another guy on 9/11/2002: I'm mad that none of my favorite TV shows are on tonight.
Yet another: Yeah, the same thing happened last year.
There is an undercurrent of disgust, boredom and spite that cuts through culture and life. It exists at many levels and many times. Sure, some people don't like irony, but I bet if we built some really huge buildings, we could fit all of them in them and then fly planes into the buildings. The only question is what the news coverage would be like.
Irony is not black humor, except when it is.
Who is she? I am not familiar with her. Based on this one piece, she seems clever and witty. What else has she done? What is her background?
My initial googling was mostly a failure.
In the play Educating Rita, the professor corrects Rita on the use of "tragedy" and "tragic." I see a similar conflict here in a clash between popular use and literary, educated use of "irony."
Witnesses saw investigators "haul off Tilley's electric DeLorean, his electric boat and an electric ATV."
;-)
Of course they had to haul off his vehicles. No intelligent person could expect them to be driven under their own power.