I have found that doing these USAMTS competition problems have pushed me forward a lot this past year of my high school career (not to mention an honorable mention finish). Try it and see what you learn. For those high schoolers out there, its a nice competition to get into, the only thing you pay is postage to send your answers in.
I'm one of those believers that if you don't have anything to hide, you wouldn't be concerned about privacy. I don't do anything bad; I'm not about to blow up the Chuck E. Cheese's down the street with a dirty bomb or anything. And the GPS enabled cell phones could help with rescur operations, like in the article. In fact, the article in the magazines mention stuff about GPS locations being beamed only if a button is pressed. The article also mentions ATM cameras, street cameras, the supermarket discount cards, tollbooths, IM's, emails, medical insurance databases, and more. There is not really anything new for the well-educated slashdotter though.
With carbon nanotubes, you can make optical chips. Which will be much faster than ANY electronic chip. Using DNA, you can also do computations chemically (although it is subject to mistakes because of mutations). But most importantly, a quantum computer will be much more powerful and size-effective (is that a word?) since it packs about 5 bits into one qubit.
Besides, I wouldn't want to have Intel printing out whole motherboards on pieces of paper.
Why sue the record companies when we know REALLY who's behind this all? It's the little guy in your stereo system called Ryan. Ermmm that would be RIAA, I think...
I didnt think the body could process silicon. And putting it in glass would be easy-just put the electrodes in the glass and then you could solder or do whatever. How the heck do you think they made vacuum tubes back in the heyday of ENIAC?
If you removed any of the myelin sheathing you would run the risk of exposing the whole cell to attack. Sort of like what Microsoft did when they put Internet Explorer into Windows. Then when the cell is under attack, you run the risk of fibromyalgia (i dont know if that has anything do do with nerves, i just had to day it), or even Alzheimers or Parkinsons if it hits the wrong spot and goes to the brain. Not good.
The nerve connections can never regrow completely, meaning the sight can never be as good as yours or mine (on second thought, I have -7 diopter lenses...). I don't even think the guy can move his eyes around. The true victory will come when when we manage to reattach nerve connections completely, because then we can repair spinal cord injuries and the like.
Oh, and the million dollar man references are all lies: The procedure, hospitalization and equipment cost about $98,000 US..
You can probably go to a lot of theaters and get those goggles to watch a 3D movie. And I'm pretty sure those paper goggle thingys are dirt cheap, and the 3d movie is just made with 2 cameras & projectors instead of 1, so why would it cost $25k to make a funky little algorithm that can handle 2 CRT's and a dime store goggle set?
At this rate, I'm surprised the MPAA & RIAA hasn't started to complain about the copyright laws specialized for news, where you can use so and so number of seconds of a copyrighted material for informational purposes.
This seems to be a lot better than that Predator thing that carries a whopping one Hellfire missile. I like the reconfigurable control station, since not everyone likes their controls in the same spots, having played MANY flight sims. But best of all, having no pilot means it can be manuvered much more, even subjected to maybe 10, 11, 12 G's without the controller blacking out. MiG-29? Bring it on!
"I just hope it runs open source, otherwise you won't know if you or the plane crashed."
Waves hand: *Microsoft is good.* *Penguins are evil creatures.* *Linus Torvalds belongs in the trash.* *Slashdot sucks.* *Internet Explorer is the best web browser.* Get my drift? There are some things money can't buy, and for everything else, Microsoft is never right.
I find it interesting how Network Associates bought out PGP, then killed it, and is now trying to shut it down. Although it may be a long shot, could it be that the government is behind this? The government did not want PGP to be released in the first place because they thought it would threaten security... and for those still looking for PGP and unwilling to use GPG, there's still KaZaA.
I find it interesting how nVidia doesn't really make its own cards, just mostly the chipsets. For example, their site only offers drivers for specific chipsets, but I have to go to Pine to get card-specific drivers for my GeForce 3 Ti. Could this also have something to do with their success?
Being a violinist myself, I can say that I do not like this. Although it is nice in that it is a MIDI interface, any good violinist should rely on touch to help them play correctly. When I shift to another position, I feel the right relative position and the right amount of tension that I create in the string to make sure I nail that note. Of course, this must be all subconscious, but have you ever switched to an instrument with a higher bridge that what you had before?
Read my lips: Strategerie means no new taxes. P-o-t-a-t-o-e.
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$75 bucks for the software
$7,500,000 million for the StarFire 10000 with th 10 TB of RAM now required to run Star Office. Being able to proclaim: "I have gone to Sun and back! Join me!" : Priceless
Since I primarily use any office suite for word processing, I just downloaded AbiWord. Slashdot ran a story earlier, too, about this.
If you use databases, I am sure you can find some open source version DB software somewhere. Same with spreadsheets and presentations. As for scheduling, let's just say, pen and back of hand work fine.
I think you should settle with them, but ONLY if they agree to sue major companies also, in order to maintain fair practices. If they don't agree, file a big press release to get public opinion on your side. I see./ has already brought you a lot of attention.
This is the Onion come to life: Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
Hope it doesnt run on Windows, or else you might crash. (-1,423,234: Troll) But I like the iDrive dial. The only thing is, it's where the shift would be. I would prefer to have a jog dial thingy on the steering wheel, where it would be more easily accessible.
By the way, there's an article in Popular Science about this too. It printed a few issues back, if any of you subscribe. I couldn't find it on the website though...
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I have found that doing these USAMTS competition problems have pushed me forward a lot this past year of my high school career (not to mention an honorable mention finish). Try it and see what you learn. For those high schoolers out there, its a nice competition to get into, the only thing you pay is postage to send your answers in.
I'm one of those believers that if you don't have anything to hide, you wouldn't be concerned about privacy. I don't do anything bad; I'm not about to blow up the Chuck E. Cheese's down the street with a dirty bomb or anything. And the GPS enabled cell phones could help with rescur operations, like in the article. In fact, the article in the magazines mention stuff about GPS locations being beamed only if a button is pressed. The article also mentions ATM cameras, street cameras, the supermarket discount cards, tollbooths, IM's, emails, medical insurance databases, and more. There is not really anything new for the well-educated slashdotter though.
Hint: it involves a lighter and gasoline!
Besides, I wouldn't want to have Intel printing out whole motherboards on pieces of paper.
Why sue the record companies when we know REALLY who's behind this all? It's the little guy in your stereo system called Ryan. Ermmm that would be RIAA, I think...
I didnt think the body could process silicon. And putting it in glass would be easy-just put the electrodes in the glass and then you could solder or do whatever. How the heck do you think they made vacuum tubes back in the heyday of ENIAC?
If you removed any of the myelin sheathing you would run the risk of exposing the whole cell to attack. Sort of like what Microsoft did when they put Internet Explorer into Windows. Then when the cell is under attack, you run the risk of fibromyalgia (i dont know if that has anything do do with nerves, i just had to day it), or even Alzheimers or Parkinsons if it hits the wrong spot and goes to the brain. Not good.
Oh, and the million dollar man references are all lies: The procedure, hospitalization and equipment cost about $98,000 US..
You can probably go to a lot of theaters and get those goggles to watch a 3D movie. And I'm pretty sure those paper goggle thingys are dirt cheap, and the 3d movie is just made with 2 cameras & projectors instead of 1, so why would it cost $25k to make a funky little algorithm that can handle 2 CRT's and a dime store goggle set?
At this rate, I'm surprised the MPAA & RIAA hasn't started to complain about the copyright laws specialized for news, where you can use so and so number of seconds of a copyrighted material for informational purposes.
I hope they make it open source. Otherwise, they won't be Red Hat--they'd be bald! =)
This seems to be a lot better than that Predator thing that carries a whopping one Hellfire missile. I like the reconfigurable control station, since not everyone likes their controls in the same spots, having played MANY flight sims. But best of all, having no pilot means it can be manuvered much more, even subjected to maybe 10, 11, 12 G's without the controller blacking out. MiG-29? Bring it on!
"I just hope it runs open source, otherwise you won't know if you or the plane crashed."
Waves hand:
*Microsoft is good.*
*Penguins are evil creatures.*
*Linus Torvalds belongs in the trash.*
*Slashdot sucks.*
*Internet Explorer is the best web browser.*
Get my drift? There are some things money can't buy, and for everything else, Microsoft is never right.
I find it interesting how Network Associates bought out PGP, then killed it, and is now trying to shut it down. Although it may be a long shot, could it be that the government is behind this? The government did not want PGP to be released in the first place because they thought it would threaten security...
and for those still looking for PGP and unwilling to use GPG, there's still KaZaA.
Hey, can I go as Lone Star?
Sadly, the most obvious and recent one was not on the list: my basement.
It's Jupiter mooning us again!
I find it interesting how nVidia doesn't really make its own cards, just mostly the chipsets. For example, their site only offers drivers for specific chipsets, but I have to go to Pine to get card-specific drivers for my GeForce 3 Ti. Could this also have something to do with their success?
Being a violinist myself, I can say that I do not like this. Although it is nice in that it is a MIDI interface, any good violinist should rely on touch to help them play correctly. When I shift to another position, I feel the right relative position and the right amount of tension that I create in the string to make sure I nail that note. Of course, this must be all subconscious, but have you ever switched to an instrument with a higher bridge that what you had before?
Read my lips: Strategerie means no new taxes. P-o-t-a-t-o-e.
$75 bucks for the software
$7,500,000 million for the StarFire 10000 with th 10 TB of RAM now required to run Star Office.
Being able to proclaim: "I have gone to Sun and back! Join me!" : Priceless
Since I primarily use any office suite for word processing, I just downloaded AbiWord. Slashdot ran a story earlier, too, about this.
If you use databases, I am sure you can find some open source version DB software somewhere. Same with spreadsheets and presentations. As for scheduling, let's just say, pen and back of hand work fine.
I think you should settle with them, but ONLY if they agree to sue major companies also, in order to maintain fair practices. If they don't agree, file a big press release to get public opinion on your side. I see ./ has already brought you a lot of attention.
This is the Onion come to life: Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
Did anyone else think "neutrino" besides me? Who knows, it may be another form of neutrino, since billions pass through the earth every second.
Hope it doesnt run on Windows, or else you might crash. (-1,423,234: Troll) But I like the iDrive dial. The only thing is, it's where the shift would be. I would prefer to have a jog dial thingy on the steering wheel, where it would be more easily accessible.
By the way, there's an article in Popular Science about this too. It printed a few issues back, if any of you subscribe. I couldn't find it on the website though...