the TIs were just coming into use. I had a TI 81, and later packed "eight-deuce." Our teacher's and therefore my dependence on it definitely inhibited my understanding of the concepts underlying the math. That said, I can think of few situations in life where I would need but wouldn't have access to similar tools. Learning the tool allowed me to do more complex things that students probably didn't do as extensively before the advent of graphing calculators.
boy am i stupid. i thought i read "120MB" and therefore wasn't that impressed. now i'm psyched, but i do remember the article saying it was 1000 times slower than current hard discs.
is that guy gary krakow a tool or what? it sounded like i was reading an onion article or something.
that said, the watch is neat. the essential problem with these gadgets is that the screen and input sizes need to be so small. within the next ten years or so, i'll wager that some genious is going to come up with a brilliant solution (voice-recognition holograms, anyone?)
ok, so dean kamen is careful with his words (a side note: it's "substantially"). anyway, my original point was that it's not immediately clear that a segway-based city is desirable.
i believe--regardless of whether Kamen is saying "will" or "can"--that Kamen thinks that a Segway-based city would be a good thing.
Find me a quote where the inventor claims that "Ginger" will transform cities.
okay, tough guy:
While, in the near term, people will now have the power to move faster, go farther, and carry more in a fun, environmentally friendly, and economical way, I believe the impact of Segway HT could be far more profound. This new technology fills a wide gap in the current transportation continuum and gives us the power to solve many of the problems, such as urban congestion and pollution, created by rapidly growing megacities.
how has the media been so snookered by this guy? i mean, let's stop for a second and think about what this actually device does.
It has two wheels (compare to scooter, moped, motorcycle, bike).
It allows you to go faster than walking (see above devides, plus rollerblades, skateboard, and running)
that's basically it, plus some fancy gyroscopes that make it easy to balance. i think most of us would agree that with a little practice, the gyroscopes in our inner ear function just fine, thanks.
that said, let's just accept for a second that this device *will* transform our cities, as its inventor/hypemonger claims. anyone eve been to taipei? it's just as annoying to get around in tapei as it is in new york, but everyone's zipping around in mopeds instead of cars. i'm not sure that's so desirable.
furthermore, if people are riding these segways around instead of walking, our poor benighted country is going to get even fatter and lazier.
finally, it just looks so 80s. very ugly and dorky design.
well, i was really talking about orcs, southrons, the haradrim, and so on in the 3rd book. all the mordor types are dark, from the south, ride elephants, etc.
but remember that the *white* is seen as the ideal, and Gandalf becomes Gandalf the *white* after his battle with the Balrog. Later, Saruman's staff is broken, and he is cast down from the council--his behavior doesn't merit being called the *white* anymore.
i come neither to bury nor praise tolkein, however. i have read lotr hundreds of times, and it's clearly a great story and deserves its reputation. tolkein comes from a literary tradition including rudyard kipling and joseph conrad, though, so this implicit racial stuff is not tolkein's invention--perhaps we can forgive him.
back to the original idea--even in fantasy worlds, our prejudices from this world, sadly, sometimes remain.
good for guys like the phantom editor to do something about this, even if his original intent was only to get rid of arguably the most annoying movie character ever created. possible competitor: any haley joel osment role.
Anyone who would feel bad because they saw a movie where people who had dark skin were evil probably feel bad about pretty much anything.
no, no, no.
the problem is that in the usa, there is a history of both legal and illegal discrimination against people of darker skin. the beard analogy doesn't fly for this reason--people with beards weren't ENSLAVED and then BEATEN and FIREHOSED in the streets of the south. as for the general southern accent thing, well, you might be able to prove that people with southern accents are less likely to get lots of types of jobs (tv news anchor, for instance). but there just isn't the same historical pattern of discrimination.
so there's a real diffence. which is why there's also a legal distinction (disclaimer--IANAL), see the 14th amendment.
what I'm not saying, though, is that these movies are illegal in any way. but i think people are justified in being offended.
well, he pretty clearly speaks with some sort jamaican accent, and might as well be wearing blackface as far as i'm concerned.
and the trade federation was pretty thinly-veiled racism against the japanese.
to be fair, i also thought lotr has some racist undertones as well...i mean, the book is especially bad on this score, equating darkness of skin with evil, and fairness of skin w/ good. imagine how that makes someone with dark skin feel...when really it's all a function of evolution and differential exposure to radiation over time...
yeah, i thought my roommate was just having some crazy sex, but then i realized that there's no way in hell he would be awake at 7 am on sat. morning. conclusion: earthquake.
Turn off your computers and go read The Medium is the Massage
If the medium is the "massage," then whay aren't there any tactile pr0n sites yet?
But seriously, folks. if the world were made up of jakob nielsens, then Flash would always be a bad thing.
But the fact is, users learn and experience things differently. they value image/style at different rates. i for one, refuse to read cnn.com because i think it's ugly. i cringe everytime i visit slashdot because it has ugly, out-of-date colors, too little whitespace, etc. but i love the content, so i suck it up.
Some people *need* things like Flash in order to better process information. i would put some very talented people in that category--lots of artists and even scientists think primarily with their eyes.
OTOH, that back button problem is hella annoying.
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just a suggestion. i'm not sure that 'TrustUnWorthy Computing' means anything like what Randomeyes thinks it means.
maybe it's an imperative coming from M$:
Trust unworthy computing!
Guess what? The upgrade treadmill, while it may be bad for consumers, is GOOD for American business, and good for/.ers' employment status on the whole, I would imagine.
Why? Because it drives hardware sales, and that's good. Now that PC and other IT hardware sales are slowing, we see how much it sucks for everyone when things aren't going well.
Point 2: at some point, arbitrage should develop and desktop users will be willing to buy a used machine running a free OS at a lower overall price than a Windows box. There should be a tipping point when the perceived advantages of Windows are outweighed by a price advantage. We aren't there yet.
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no, just the "under god" part. and btw, the supreme court has enough bible-bangers to reverse it for sure.
well, you can write a little app to change long names for the production copies of the pages, and save the development copies separately.
the TIs were just coming into use. I had a TI 81, and later packed "eight-deuce." Our teacher's and therefore my dependence on it definitely inhibited my understanding of the concepts underlying the math. That said, I can think of few situations in life where I would need but wouldn't have access to similar tools. Learning the tool allowed me to do more complex things that students probably didn't do as extensively before the advent of graphing calculators.
boy am i stupid. i thought i read "120MB" and therefore wasn't that impressed. now i'm psyched, but i do remember the article saying it was 1000 times slower than current hard discs.
are they running their webserver off this thing? it's all f*cked up!
how does this compare to their 1 gig cf microdrives? those seem to be even more space efficient....
hmmm...uses serial port, least expensive model is $99, and it looks huge.
even better would be transcription software that would let you turn those recordings into text.
it's been done--there's this samsung model. it's kinda bulky, though.
that said, the watch is neat. the essential problem with these gadgets is that the screen and input sizes need to be so small. within the next ten years or so, i'll wager that some genious is going to come up with a brilliant solution (voice-recognition holograms, anyone?)
i believe--regardless of whether Kamen is saying "will" or "can"--that Kamen thinks that a Segway-based city would be a good thing.
okay, tough guy:
from "A personal letter from Dean Kamen to the members of theITquestion.com"
that wasn't so hard.
that's basically it, plus some fancy gyroscopes that make it easy to balance. i think most of us would agree that with a little practice, the gyroscopes in our inner ear function just fine, thanks.
that said, let's just accept for a second that this device *will* transform our cities, as its inventor/hypemonger claims. anyone eve been to taipei? it's just as annoying to get around in tapei as it is in new york, but everyone's zipping around in mopeds instead of cars. i'm not sure that's so desirable.
furthermore, if people are riding these segways around instead of walking, our poor benighted country is going to get even fatter and lazier.
finally, it just looks so 80s. very ugly and dorky design.
-Mitch Hedberg
google-bombing. usually done through blogs as well.
well, i was really talking about orcs, southrons, the haradrim, and so on in the 3rd book. all the mordor types are dark, from the south, ride elephants, etc.
but remember that the *white* is seen as the ideal, and Gandalf becomes Gandalf the *white* after his battle with the Balrog. Later, Saruman's staff is broken, and he is cast down from the council--his behavior doesn't merit being called the *white* anymore.
i come neither to bury nor praise tolkein, however. i have read lotr hundreds of times, and it's clearly a great story and deserves its reputation. tolkein comes from a literary tradition including rudyard kipling and joseph conrad, though, so this implicit racial stuff is not tolkein's invention--perhaps we can forgive him.
back to the original idea--even in fantasy worlds, our prejudices from this world, sadly, sometimes remain.
good for guys like the phantom editor to do something about this, even if his original intent was only to get rid of arguably the most annoying movie character ever created. possible competitor: any haley joel osment role.
no, no, no.
the problem is that in the usa, there is a history of both legal and illegal discrimination against people of darker skin. the beard analogy doesn't fly for this reason--people with beards weren't ENSLAVED and then BEATEN and FIREHOSED in the streets of the south. as for the general southern accent thing, well, you might be able to prove that people with southern accents are less likely to get lots of types of jobs (tv news anchor, for instance). but there just isn't the same historical pattern of discrimination.
so there's a real diffence. which is why there's also a legal distinction (disclaimer--IANAL), see the 14th amendment.
what I'm not saying, though, is that these movies are illegal in any way. but i think people are justified in being offended.
well, he pretty clearly speaks with some sort jamaican accent, and might as well be wearing blackface as far as i'm concerned.
and the trade federation was pretty thinly-veiled racism against the japanese.
to be fair, i also thought lotr has some racist undertones as well...i mean, the book is especially bad on this score, equating darkness of skin with evil, and fairness of skin w/ good. imagine how that makes someone with dark skin feel...when really it's all a function of evolution and differential exposure to radiation over time...
-confused in connecticut
If the medium is the "massage," then whay aren't there any tactile pr0n sites yet?
But seriously, folks. if the world were made up of jakob nielsens, then Flash would always be a bad thing.
But the fact is, users learn and experience things differently. they value image/style at different rates. i for one, refuse to read cnn.com because i think it's ugly. i cringe everytime i visit slashdot because it has ugly, out-of-date colors, too little whitespace, etc. but i love the content, so i suck it up.
Some people *need* things like Flash in order to better process information. i would put some very talented people in that category--lots of artists and even scientists think primarily with their eyes.
OTOH, that back button problem is hella annoying.
maybe it's an imperative coming from M$: Trust unworthy computing!
not only that, but you'd be hard-pressed to figure out a way to get rid of it via a registry hack a la messenger.
that said, i'm sure *Microsoft* should be able to do it. I'm not sure it's in everyone's best interest, however.
Guess what? The upgrade treadmill, while it may be bad for consumers, is GOOD for American business, and good for /.ers' employment status on the whole, I would imagine.
Why? Because it drives hardware sales, and that's good. Now that PC and other IT hardware sales are slowing, we see how much it sucks for everyone when things aren't going well.
Point 2: at some point, arbitrage should develop and desktop users will be willing to buy a used machine running a free OS at a lower overall price than a Windows box. There should be a tipping point when the perceived advantages of Windows are outweighed by a price advantage. We aren't there yet.
that's okay, just write a little java app that does it for you.
...or better yet, the more correct "ThinkFreely"