Last time I checked, Octave could only directly manipulate arrays with 2 dimensions at the most. A show stopper, unless you went into arrays of arrays but that got old very fast. Has it been improved ?
And about the tech support from Matlab, yeah it sucks. I've had their DRM crash on boot for the last 6 months and they've done jack shit about it. Fortunately I didn't need Matlab no more so I just gave up on it, but still, the site license costs a few newborns. Way to go.
Yes, there are so many alternatives that I think I'm gonna wait longer. Let's see, I can replace my 19" screen, laptop and/or cell phone by:
23" screen. Con: can't take it with you.
Screen palette (like the Wacom Cintiq 12WX): use as secondary monitor, or to read in bed. Pro: color, pen. Con: must remain close to main PC (wireless).
eInk reader: Pro: long battery life, comfortable to read. Con: no pen or touch, greyscale, limited capabilities.
iPhone or similar: Pro: lots of apps, only one thing to lug around. Con: small screen.
How do those eInk screens fare in respect with fingerprints ? Are they very visible, easy to clean ? For something you hold in your hand in all situations, I would hope so.
I absolutely hate finger prints on LCD displays (you can't get them off of matte screens), and my colleagues know that I WILL hit them if they put their greasy fingers on my screen...
So, you can put.txt natively. What else is accepted natively ?
And what kind of files can you convert yourself ?
What about.pdf,.cbz/cbr (comic book format, just a zip or rar package for jpg images),.chm (windows help files, I have tons of those),.mhm (whole web pages)...
3 wise men... blah blah blah... follow star I never figured out how could anyone fall for that shit: stars rotate daily in the sky. If the 3 'wise' men had followed your average supernova, they would have reversed course twice daily. And if they had followed a shooting star, it would have been over in 15 seconds at the most. So what's the take of the people who love wasting their time trying to mix water and oil... I mean, science and religion ?
If all you print are charts and color pdfs, then by all means, go ahead and get them refilled with cheap no-name inks. But if you are printing images on quality paper, it will completely screw up the colors (the inks are different and not even stable from one refill to the next). Also you run the risk of plugging the heads as the viscosity and drying speed is different. To say nothing of the printers that remember which cartridges you use and will refuse them after a refill (Epson, I'm looking at you).
Nothing against CANDU, but it's still a classic design: Uranium rods, water to damp the neutrons, Pu wasteproducts, etc... I was talking more about radically different designs such as accelerator driven reactors, Thorium cycles...
You can actually see some robots in the background doing various tasks. Like the vacuum cleaner robot in disrepair in the hospital. There's probably been enough robots making robots till then, but from that broken one and the state of the streets and the buildings you can tell that the whole system is about to collapse soon.
I will not want a flywheel in my car EVER. If you think a wheel coming off was dangerous, think again when something heavier and rotating at _much_ higher speed just goes free or explodes into shard in every direction. It's really the stupidest idea ever. And yes, I've been in a car that was crushed to 1/3 its former size by a high-speed idiot.
The problem with the first 50 years or so of nuclear power generators is that the military had a word in the design. They wanted to be able to produce 'useful' nucleotides with them. At the time cleaner designs were suggested (for instance using Thorium instead of Uranium), but the designs that got money were all backed by the military. Now that politically the issues are settled, engineers are free to work on clean designs again, but that's fairly recent. So not only will we get safer reactors in the future (like neutron-beam driven that you can turn off instantly), but they will also produce much less waste (fewer long life actinides) and have NO possible military applications (no plutonium). Yes, I work in that field.
...the ability to sell my content using the 'brand' of Amazon.com... I didn't know about that and immediately searched for it: here's the link to the Amazon digital text platform
Now if they'd just do something about the extremely limited dynamic range But they have: I'm very happy with the Fuji S5 pro and its dynamic 4 times better than the best others. No need to waste time with software to produce ugly HDR images.
Look at slide 7 on this presentation (sorry, pdf), titled "Software is a long-term commitment". It shows very well, the development curve of software projects with interesting variations between projects.
As a side note, I almost wet my pants seeing that Fortran is finally dead and buried.
During the french revolution, they confiscated all the loot/property of the church and they executed members of the clergy who didn't submit. Worked pretty good as a way to separate church and state. Maybe it should be tried in religious countries like Iraq or the US.
Active clergy members are banned from holding public office (but it's fine to change job), and church buildings are loaned to the clergy and can be (but it's very rare) withdrawn if some conditions are not met (like racist priests).
People who read a lot of books LIKE having huge bookshelves Quite right. They've been selling books by the meter (of shelf) for a long time to decorate rooms. You can even get fake books with nice looking leather bindings (but nothing inside).
Me I have 3 attitudes after I read a book: if it's bad I throw it away so that it won't waste another person's time; 10%. If it's great I offer it to a friend and then order another one which I'll also offer on some later time (maybe after reading it again); 10%. Otherwise I just abandon the book wherever I finished it, hoping that the cleaning lady or the next passenger will enjoy it (I've turned around and seen people picking it); 80%.
I know there is a website dedicated to tracking abandoned books (you basically just write the website on page 3, and then whoever finds it can login, register and see why it was abandoned, who's read it before, what they thought of it...). It was up 10 years ago, I don't know if it's still around.
My bad. I'd skimmed the summary, thinking it was another kind of neutron tomography system. I'll have to read it to see how it's different from classic neutron detection (may be useful for our current experiments !)
Of note: if you use this system to scan containers, post office mail or airport luggage: it will destroy any photographic film in them (but have no effect on CCDs). Yes, I do work on nuclear reactors and neutron beams. Similar detectors are already in use at some large airports, for freight.
If I can ever get my hard drive compacted to one end so I can partition it [...] It's a good thing for Slashdot that we can add some value in the comments, 'cause there's bugger-all in dumb fluff like TFA Even though it's completely off-topic, let's try to push this one step farther. I want to do the opposite of the GP: I have a small system disk (with XP) which I want to change to a bigger one. What's the simplest way to do this ? Here's my current idea:
Plug in new drive
Boot with Knoppix and do "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=..." with the NTFS blocksize
Remove disk A and replace it with B. Boot it.
Go in the disk manager and merge the unused partition after the main one (I'm not sure if this is possible)
Uh, yeah, except it is a reactor. If they want to emphasize how safe it is, that's great, but renaming products to get rid of words people don't like is just dumb. Well, the lab I work for had the word 'Nuclear' changed to 'Sub-atomic' in its name. Since then budgets are up, so there must be some truth to it !
And, like most science, it bears fruit. Distributed computing. Yes, absolutely. Narrow minded people who look at science always ask 'what is it good for ?'. Even if the answer is clearly 'absolutely nothing' for the goal of the experiment itself, there are often plenty of side benefits. One typical example (in which I work) is particle accelerators: a 27km diameter accelerator like Cern, costing 20 year budget of entire countries to detect (or maybe not) a particle which no scientist in his right mind could find an application for (the Higgs). So is it useless wasted money ? Let's see what you get out of it:
That intharweb thingy
Distributed applications: Seti@home was the first working one, we now have The Grid operational with hundred of thousands of cores spread worldwide, even used for financial analysis. Google says the future of computing is there and means it.
Super strong magnets, even stronger electro-magnets, staggeringly strong superconducting magnets
Cheaper and more widespread use of FPGAs and other advanced electronics due to increased demand. Then 2 years later they are in your laptop.
Tons of free software (you have no idea how many Cern and related groups of scientists are Linux contributors). The Cern has its own Linux distribution.
Nuclear medecine, narrower irradiation of inaccessible tumors, protein analysis, hyper-fast biological mechanisms seen live...
Pocket accelerators for art analysis and conservation (the Louvre has one). If you like art...
And that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are entire pages at either Cern or Nasa or Wikipedia dedicated to just answering that question.
The legalization of abortion [...] has been attributed to a large statistical decrease in violent crime [...] Are both studies wrong? Nope. Maybe they both contribute. But the one you site is one of most sound correlation in social statistics. It correlate with about a 20 years delay to the introduction of practical abortion (meaning clinics, practicing gynecologists, family planning centers, etc) in each specific area. Unwanted kids are unwanted also after birth, left to fend for themselves and end up on the wrong side of the law. The simplest explanations are sometimes the correct ones. The real question is: why is this study mostly hidden in the US ?
you don't give a fuck about the people you are speaking to It's funny, nowadays I see it as exactly the opposite. I work in scientific engineering. When I see a scientist or an engineer dressed in expensive and ridiculously serious attire, a bell goes of in mind mind: watch out, this guy's an inept fool trying to project an aura of professionalism and physical superiority. Spray painting bullshit doesn't make it any less bullshit.
The Win9x line is dead. Are you absolutely, positively sure of that ? We wouldn't want the risk to see it rise from its grave, right ? A wooden stake in the heart and a whole lot of flaming jet fuel maybe ?!?
Tribes that were for large families and passed those beliefs down to their children tended to grow [...] The mixed-belief world appears to be the "fittest" world You can mix those two only as long as there is room to grow. As soon as you hit the overpopulation threshold, the idea may still grow but people will die regardless of their religious affiliation. Such a world would be better off with birth-control users (atheists in that simplified case).
I always try to get it into people's heads that "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell".
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Last time I checked, Octave could only directly manipulate arrays with 2 dimensions at the most. A show stopper, unless you went into arrays of arrays but that got old very fast. Has it been improved ?
And about the tech support from Matlab, yeah it sucks. I've had their DRM crash on boot for the last 6 months and they've done jack shit about it. Fortunately I didn't need Matlab no more so I just gave up on it, but still, the site license costs a few newborns. Way to go.
I absolutely hate finger prints on LCD displays (you can't get them off of matte screens), and my colleagues know that I WILL hit them if they put their greasy fingers on my screen...
And what kind of files can you convert yourself ?
What about .pdf, .cbz/cbr (comic book format, just a zip or rar package for jpg images), .chm (windows help files, I have tons of those), .mhm (whole web pages)...
I've tried it. Never again.
Nothing against CANDU, but it's still a classic design: Uranium rods, water to damp the neutrons, Pu wasteproducts, etc... I was talking more about radically different designs such as accelerator driven reactors, Thorium cycles...
You can actually see some robots in the background doing various tasks. Like the vacuum cleaner robot in disrepair in the hospital. There's probably been enough robots making robots till then, but from that broken one and the state of the streets and the buildings you can tell that the whole system is about to collapse soon.
I will not want a flywheel in my car EVER. If you think a wheel coming off was dangerous, think again when something heavier and rotating at _much_ higher speed just goes free or explodes into shard in every direction. It's really the stupidest idea ever. And yes, I've been in a car that was crushed to 1/3 its former size by a high-speed idiot.
The problem with the first 50 years or so of nuclear power generators is that the military had a word in the design. They wanted to be able to produce 'useful' nucleotides with them. At the time cleaner designs were suggested (for instance using Thorium instead of Uranium), but the designs that got money were all backed by the military. Now that politically the issues are settled, engineers are free to work on clean designs again, but that's fairly recent. So not only will we get safer reactors in the future (like neutron-beam driven that you can turn off instantly), but they will also produce much less waste (fewer long life actinides) and have NO possible military applications (no plutonium). Yes, I work in that field.
...the ability to sell my content using the 'brand' of Amazon.com... I didn't know about that and immediately searched for it: here's the link to the Amazon digital text platformAs a side note, I almost wet my pants seeing that Fortran is finally dead and buried.
Active clergy members are banned from holding public office (but it's fine to change job), and church buildings are loaned to the clergy and can be (but it's very rare) withdrawn if some conditions are not met (like racist priests).
My bad. I'd skimmed the summary, thinking it was another kind of neutron tomography system. I'll have to read it to see how it's different from classic neutron detection (may be useful for our current experiments !)
Of note: if you use this system to scan containers, post office mail or airport luggage: it will destroy any photographic film in them (but have no effect on CCDs). Yes, I do work on nuclear reactors and neutron beams. Similar detectors are already in use at some large airports, for freight.
- Plug in new drive
- Boot with Knoppix and do "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=..." with the NTFS blocksize
- Remove disk A and replace it with B. Boot it.
- Go in the disk manager and merge the unused partition after the main one (I'm not sure if this is possible)
Anyone care to comment on this ? Thank you.- That intharweb thingy
- Distributed applications: Seti@home was the first working one, we now have The Grid operational with hundred of thousands of cores spread worldwide, even used for financial analysis. Google says the future of computing is there and means it.
- Super strong magnets, even stronger electro-magnets, staggeringly strong superconducting magnets
- Cheaper and more widespread use of FPGAs and other advanced electronics due to increased demand. Then 2 years later they are in your laptop.
- Tons of free software (you have no idea how many Cern and related groups of scientists are Linux contributors). The Cern has its own Linux distribution.
- Nuclear medecine, narrower irradiation of inaccessible tumors, protein analysis, hyper-fast biological mechanisms seen live...
- Pocket accelerators for art analysis and conservation (the Louvre has one). If you like art...
And that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are entire pages at either Cern or Nasa or Wikipedia dedicated to just answering that question.Seen too many cheap horror movies.
I always try to get it into people's heads that "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell".
Can it handle cbr/cbz files for comic book reading like CDisplay does (besides the fact that it's only B&W) ? Heh, that's literature too !