I got a batch of Verbatim MediDisc CD-Rs a few months back. (multiple listings for MediDisc at buy.com including DVD-Rs) Given their intended use - archiving medical data - I'm hoping they'll preserve my data well. FWIW they're made in India and feel thicker and less flexible than other CD-Rs I've seen. They ain't cheap and the spindles of CD-Rs are currently backordered.
As an autistic person, I can verify that the pressure of the lead-lined vest used during dental x-rays is quite soothing. If those were available at a reasonable price, I'd give serious thought to buying one.
Maybe he meant "...that humans need calculus to describe"?
And the "falling stone" thing doesn't clarify anything - the stone has no capability of doing anything except following Newtonian mechanics. (Besides, for it to fall in a parabola, it'd have to be released someplace like here...)
...between those seeking more oil and those seeking more data regarding global warming.
More-expensive oil has made more-expensive exploration economically feasible, with the expected results. To balance this, better-funded global warming research is needed. Of course, if the petroleum industry is given enough subsidies and tax writeoffs, there won't be much left in the budget to fund climate research...
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I am a little surprised that there are enough students in an Ivy League school having a problem understanding undergraduate biology principles to constitute making a video for them.
This would be very useful for those of us whose learning mode is primarily visual. It is possible to read a description of something and recognize it as parseable without really "getting" it, then see the same information in visual form and have the "AHA!" of grasping the concept.
Keep in mind that advances such as the double-helix structure of DNA came to their discoverers in visual form, not verbal descriptions...
Airliners could start carrying good-sized, insulated, tightly-sealing bags that a flaming laptop could be tossed into and sealed. Haven't heard that the battery fires produce their own oxygen, so the fire oughta be extinguished once the O2 in the bag is used up. Then the whole thing can be disposed of like a flight-sickness bag...
(and yes, I've heard of halfbakery.com)
Granted, I could (and did) record it, but I HAD to watch it "live." That made for some grumpy ducks the following day...
Yeah... so did making a bunch of 185-mile round trips (roughly 44 of 'em) to tape it in my car because no local station carried B5 during seasons 3 and 4. But the show was worth that effort... JMS et al were busting their asses; the least I could do was honor that by making a small in-kind contribution:-)
On the plus side, my old Sony VCR survived all the square waves from my ancient inverter, and there wasn't much traffic on US74 heading from Shelby (NC) back toward Asheville in the early AM...
Oh, and during those late-night journeys I also discovered this.
There is a lot of development work going on amongst the riders of "Crank Forward" bikes such as this one. One applies greater force to the pedals by pulling on the handlebars, it's possible to tuck (albeit in a jacknife position), and some models also allow standing. The main attractions, though, are the comfort and convenience. Many owners also report feeling substantially younger:-)
Some time back I saw a little turbine-wheel thingie in a urinal - the idea was to pee in just the right place to make it spin. Bet it cut down on errant urination...
The pro-nuclear arguments this guy gives are far from new, and have the same holes in them now as then.
Nuclear power is extremely capital-intensive, and starves other alternatives for capital, and I'm not just talking about power plants. The sensible thing to do is to reduce demand first - not by "freezing in the dark", as nuclear industry honchos characterized conservation in the '70s, but by efficiency improvements. Lighting, for example, is headed toward LEDs vastly more efficient than conventional lamps. So we have a choice: pay more for the bulbs and recoup the cost in energy savings, or keep using cheap bulbs and pay more for shiny nuclear power plants. Which one makes better economic sense to the consumer?
This issue has been well-analyzed for decades, as in "Least Cost Energy: Solving the CO2 Problem" by Amory Lovins (out of print, but the Rocky Mountain Institute has other documentation online). Reducing demand is the same as increasing capacity, and if it is cheaper, then do it first. Better insulation, for example, reduces energy demand 24/7 just as a nuclear plant (supposedly) provides energy 24/7 and costs much less per unit of demand reduced than the nuke does per unit of energy produced. It's also much quicker to reduce demand through efficiency improvements than to increase capacity by building more power plants.
A feature of the SOL-20 (my first computer too) was that you could plug in "personality modules" (containing EPROMS IIRC) to configure the machine for different applications. Wasn't one of the PMs a terminal emulator?
Being autistic, for me, means having to analyze social situations and interactions on-the-fly. Emulating intuition, I suppose. But having to be analytical also means getting to be analytical, looking beneath the surface to gain understanding of what's going on and why. Tools to achieve this will vary depending on one's ability to process complex material, but having a sensible explanation makes it much easier for me to be cooperative, appropriately social, and so forth.
This is a lot of work, but IME is well worth it. See the conference papers at my website for more on one person's experience of autism...
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I got to hear that sometime in the mid-1970s. Stirring.
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Likewise my Processor Technology SOL-20, which I got new in 1977 for a small fortune. IIRC its Star Trek game had sound effects which showed up in a correctly-placed AM radio...
This article discusses one of the central points of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know?!" which uses lots of computer animation for us visual learners.
I can't even imagine how profound the boomcar boyz hearing loss must be. Not that I care... karma and all that.
I used to feel the same way, until I started noticing the infants strapped into their car seats right in front of the subs. A case could be made for that being some degree of child abuse...
and I don't think it's just the risk of hearing loss. What does long-term exposure to such loud sound do to a child's - or an adult's - endocrine system, and what are the social consequnces of that?
The problem there is that the "good" sound gets attenuated just as much as the "bad" sound. Instead of drowning out background noise by brute force, try using headphone-style noise reducers over on- or in-ear headphones. Better signal-to-noise ratio that way, so the sound oughta be cleaner.
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What about using the Word Viewer?
>Efficiency is irrelevant. Only if cost is also irrelevant. Have you unlimited funds?
I got a batch of Verbatim MediDisc CD-Rs a few months back. (multiple listings for MediDisc at buy.com including DVD-Rs) Given their intended use - archiving medical data - I'm hoping they'll preserve my data well. FWIW they're made in India and feel thicker and less flexible than other CD-Rs I've seen. They ain't cheap and the spindles of CD-Rs are currently backordered.
As an autistic person, I can verify that the pressure of the lead-lined vest used during dental x-rays is quite soothing. If those were available at a reasonable price, I'd give serious thought to buying one.
And the "falling stone" thing doesn't clarify anything - the stone has no capability of doing anything except following Newtonian mechanics. (Besides, for it to fall in a parabola, it'd have to be released someplace like here...)
...and essentialreality.com looks like it's been taken over by an Xbox distributor. Hopefully the concept will be adapted to other devices.
More-expensive oil has made more-expensive exploration economically feasible, with the expected results. To balance this, better-funded global warming research is needed. Of course, if the petroleum industry is given enough subsidies and tax writeoffs, there won't be much left in the budget to fund climate research...
This would be very useful for those of us whose learning mode is primarily visual. It is possible to read a description of something and recognize it as parseable without really "getting" it, then see the same information in visual form and have the "AHA!" of grasping the concept.
Keep in mind that advances such as the double-helix structure of DNA came to their discoverers in visual form, not verbal descriptions...
Airliners could start carrying good-sized, insulated, tightly-sealing bags that a flaming laptop could be tossed into and sealed. Haven't heard that the battery fires produce their own oxygen, so the fire oughta be extinguished once the O2 in the bag is used up. Then the whole thing can be disposed of like a flight-sickness bag... (and yes, I've heard of halfbakery.com)
Yeah... so did making a bunch of 185-mile round trips (roughly 44 of 'em) to tape it in my car because no local station carried B5 during seasons 3 and 4. But the show was worth that effort... JMS et al were busting their asses; the least I could do was honor that by making a small in-kind contribution :-)
On the plus side, my old Sony VCR survived all the square waves from my ancient inverter, and there wasn't much traffic on US74 heading from Shelby (NC) back toward Asheville in the early AM...
Oh, and during those late-night journeys I also discovered this.
It's worked before, as when Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself" drove development of Lightwave. Not to mention a certain sci-fi show...
There is a lot of development work going on amongst the riders of "Crank Forward" bikes such as this one. One applies greater force to the pedals by pulling on the handlebars, it's possible to tuck (albeit in a jacknife position), and some models also allow standing. The main attractions, though, are the comfort and convenience. Many owners also report feeling substantially younger :-)
"Take" as in "require"? Nope. See "What does it cost..." on pages 9-10 of this.
Some time back I saw a little turbine-wheel thingie in a urinal - the idea was to pee in just the right place to make it spin. Bet it cut down on errant urination...
Nuclear power is extremely capital-intensive, and starves other alternatives for capital, and I'm not just talking about power plants. The sensible thing to do is to reduce demand first - not by "freezing in the dark", as nuclear industry honchos characterized conservation in the '70s, but by efficiency improvements. Lighting, for example, is headed toward LEDs vastly more efficient than conventional lamps. So we have a choice: pay more for the bulbs and recoup the cost in energy savings, or keep using cheap bulbs and pay more for shiny nuclear power plants. Which one makes better economic sense to the consumer?
Watch for detailed rebuttal of the op-ed piece from places like the Rocky Mountain Institute.
...you may find your concerns about accepting responsibility and making amends addressed in them.
This issue has been well-analyzed for decades, as in "Least Cost Energy: Solving the CO2 Problem" by Amory Lovins (out of print, but the Rocky Mountain Institute has other documentation online). Reducing demand is the same as increasing capacity, and if it is cheaper, then do it first. Better insulation, for example, reduces energy demand 24/7 just as a nuclear plant (supposedly) provides energy 24/7 and costs much less per unit of demand reduced than the nuke does per unit of energy produced. It's also much quicker to reduce demand through efficiency improvements than to increase capacity by building more power plants.
A feature of the SOL-20 (my first computer too) was that you could plug in "personality modules" (containing EPROMS IIRC) to configure the machine for different applications. Wasn't one of the PMs a terminal emulator?
This is a lot of work, but IME is well worth it. See the conference papers at my website for more on one person's experience of autism...
I got to hear that sometime in the mid-1970s. Stirring.
Likewise my Processor Technology SOL-20, which I got new in 1977 for a small fortune. IIRC its Star Trek game had sound effects which showed up in a correctly-placed AM radio...
For those of us in the US, there may be some degree of concern that these guys could decide the kit is a Threat To National Security or somesuch...
This article discusses one of the central points of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know?!" which uses lots of computer animation for us visual learners.
I used to feel the same way, until I started noticing the infants strapped into their car seats right in front of the subs. A case could be made for that being some degree of child abuse... and I don't think it's just the risk of hearing loss. What does long-term exposure to such loud sound do to a child's - or an adult's - endocrine system, and what are the social consequnces of that?
The problem there is that the "good" sound gets attenuated just as much as the "bad" sound. Instead of drowning out background noise by brute force, try using headphone-style noise reducers over on- or in-ear headphones. Better signal-to-noise ratio that way, so the sound oughta be cleaner.