Crystal Method - Vegas Crystal Method - Tweekend Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Prodigy - Fat of the Land Hybrid - Wide Angle Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick Lunatic Calm - Metropol
Honestly, I'm pretty sick of all the catagorization of electronic music. By my personal definition, electronic music is music that sounds electronic. That's it, and there's no subgenres to argue over. This list will probably not introduce you to much of the club scene music, with the exception of Hybrid, but it's some good stuff to listen to. Grab a p2p client (recommended: WinMX) and download some tracks. If you like it, buy the CD. This stuff is slightly older (c. 1998) and will give you a taste of the "techno invasion" the news was talking about at the time.
Remember a few years ago when AOL's subscriber base grew faster than its network capabilities, and they turned to MCI to save their ass?
From that, this is what I would suspect would happen: 1. WCOME will go bankrupt, and be forced to liquidize assets and sell off infrastructure. 2. AOL will buy the infrastructure, thus making their entire network in-house, without accumulating WCOME's debts and any liabililties. 3. AOL get even bigger. More pr0n, yay.
I have to agree with the population density issue. Look at, for example, China instead of Japan. Although not as technological as the island nation, China uses the similar GSM systems that are spread out throughout Asia. However, leave any large metropolis or basically the east coast, and you'd wish that Iridium never went down.
Another possible issue is America is not Asian. Take a walk through your local large city Chinatown and count how many shops sell Nokia face covers. Compare this to other shopping districts. Also look at the stereotype that all Asian [guys] have cellphones on them 24/7, and how that it's pretty much true (at least in Boston anyway). From my observations (as an Asian-American as well), there is an evident natural Asian "link" to cellphones.
Do any/. readers have a white box computer? Were there any significant issues regarding warranty, price, or component quality?
I've got a success story: Recently we retired a circa 1996 whitebox P1 166 (64MB RAM, Diamond Stealth 3D, 4GB). To this date, all components are fully functional and original. The only hardware problem experienced over the years was that a few case screw threads have been stripped. Other than that, there have been no problems w/ this machine. Cost: $1600 w/ 15" monitor.
It was replaced with a P4 1.6 (512MB RAM, GeForce2, 40GB) from the same people. Cost: $750, box only. Anticipate long run as well w/ this machine.
One other thing - Don't forget that you can sometimes buy, bargain, and barter old parts at screwdriver shops.
Apple will keep on rolling out Quicktime, A/V people will keep buying Apple products, and as for the media player wars, how many people actually paid ~$30 for the "Pro" versions? The real money's in the content creation tools, e.g. the video editor, streaming server, etc. Apple makes some decent money from this department, so I don't see how throwing another player into a market saturated by freebies is going to change anything.
And DivX is based on MPEG-4, which is supported in Quicktime 6.
If you have time to kill: Hang out at your local shop a few times, buy some small accessories / parts to keep them pacified. Drag along an Alpha geek friend sometime just to listen in and see if the shop knows what they're doing. Once a while glance towards the workshop. Go on a Saturday, or anytime its busy. If all the customers in the place seem like idiots and/or are complaining about "where's the any key?!!," go somewhere else.
If you have a high school geek child, you might also have them ask around school. Geek children trapped in suburbia usually have a decent idea of local shops, and it'll double as bonding time away from.
And pick up a copy of a localized computer magazine like Computer User. There's a good amount of useful info in there, and they have annual awards such as "Best Non-Corporate Retail Store" or some euphemism like that.
The small computer stores are just like bike shops, skate shops, etc. Use appropriate judgement.
a little clarification: Why? Slide rules require you to know what you are doing while you are doing it, and don't allow one to mindlessly plug numbers into a calculator and accept whatever garbage comes out the other end without exercising their own judgement. Now, assuming that it is possible to operate a complex graphing calculator mindlessly, then that means that just about anybody can use one with ease, which as everybody who's helped a friend of a friend of a friend fix their computer knows, is not true. If they were to just number crunch while brain dead, then considering the syntax of some of the higher end models, they wouldn't be taking any real advantage of the capabilities of the calculator and would thus be doing the same as using a tradeshow calculator (you know, the ones you pick up at tradeshows).
Tatooine has very little infrastructure, and the primary form of transportation are individual vehicles, e.g. speeders, speeder bikes, dewbacks, etc.
Corusant is a highly urbanized place, where although there are individual vehicles, for the sanity of existance there must exist public transportation that is utilized.
That said, I will be teaching engineering classes in the not-too-distant future, and my intention is not to allow *any* calculators. So would you like me to chop my fingers off as well?
I'd like to arrange for slide-rules to be ordered by the bookstore (last I heard, they're only being made in Russia these days), and make it a requirement that students come to classes/exams with a slide rule Well, you might as well get the abacus package too; just make sure they come pre-loaded with MATLAB.
(assuming I can get the department on side; I will provide a tutorial on its use). Such a lost art...
Why? Slide rules require you to know what you are doing while you are doing it, and don't allow one to mindlessly plug numbers into a calculator and accept whatever garbage comes out the other end without exercising their own judgement. If this theory were true, then the term "Technical Support" would be obsolete, and the world would be populated purely by geeks and the technically inclined but still social... so close, yet so far away..
A slide rule only keeps track of the values of your first three significant digits D for you, while the user must keep track of the power of ten P (i.e. as in scientific notation D.DDx10^P). (Fyi, a scientific slide rule *can* also handle exponential, logarithmic, trignometric, and selected power functions.) For TI-83, press [MODE] and change the mode from Normal to Sci, and from Float to 2. Performing all computations on the calculator is also better than antiquated slide rules because nearly all round-off errors are eliminated, and numbers are calculated to the 16th digit. Duh.:P
The very act of paying close attention to one's calculation also forces the student to examine how reasonable the answer is in other ways, such as "does this final speed/force/pressure/temperature/etc... make sense?". Well, if you gave the students that extra 10 minutes on the exam they might be able to actually do that wouldn't they? Many instructors criticize things that are due to professors being the sadistic egotistical bastards they are, expecially ones in the math department.;P
I think you guys are confused at what each other are saying. I must agree that the early years of math (K-6) is a big no-no for calculators. However, in those 7 years all that's taught are the basic arithmetic operations, which is basically nothing but computation; no or little manipulation and solving. In this case, a calculator would do ALL of the work.
However, once you hit middle & high school, visualization becomes much more important. To a high level nerd it'll be easy, but to someone who thinks y = sin x forms a square, having a calculator/computer to assist in visualization (during lecture) is helpful. At this point a calculator will not do ALL of the work, and a good amount of thinking still needs to be done.
Now, at the college level, at least in engineering, things go a lil' FUBAR. Many of my professors simply ban calculators from exams entirely, and keep computation to a minimum (4x20, sin(pi/4), etc.). At this point, you are no longer computing, but solving problems. Even a TI-89, TI-83, a TI-86 backup in a locker, 2 slide rules, an abacus, 8 fingers and two thumbs don't help much, if my grades mean anything.
Cd = D / (1/2 r v^2 S) Cd = Coefficient of Drag D = Drag force r = Desnity of air v = airspeed velocity S = Reference surface area
There's also another entire set of equations for induced drag, aka drag due to wingtip votices. But for cars & trains, profile drag should be pretty sufficient. Now, if a 777 fuselage has the same cross sectional area as a train, and the train is a lot longer, is it more economical (aeordynamically) to use that same amount of thrust/power to push the shorter 777 or the longer train?
The issue you're describing is one of mechanical build quality, not of the feasibility of the underlying technology. Wind-up technology has already proven itself in millions of units called wristwatches. Now, the thing I could see this make a market for is the Nomadic Geek. I've already rigged up a 4 D-cell auxiliary power pac to keep in my backpack to power my discman, palm, cellhphone, calculator, etc. It's heavy, but prior to getting recharable batteries it was a great idea (hell, it cost me $9 in parts from Radioshack). If you could have a sigle crank unit (no pun intended) that you can wind up and have it provide up to 6V at say, 500mA for an hour, then it would be a very useful universal charger for the various things you carry around. But then again, most people have cars & homes...
LOL.. this has to be the funniest "scientific advance" I've ever seen on slashdot... not counting everything that contains the string "Microsoft Works"
Thermometer Functions: Measuring range: -20C to 60C (or -4oF to 140oF) Display range: -20.0C to 60.0C (or -4.0F to 140.0F) Display unit: 0.1C ( or 0.2oF ) Measurement timing: every 2 minutes Memory capacity: up to 30 sets of Data ( month, date, hour, minutes, temperature ) Other: Memory timing (4 intervals), Temperature graph, Temperature calibration function Temperature sensor precision: +/- 2oC (+/- 3.6F) in rage of 10C to 40C (50F to 104F) +/- 3oC (+/- 5.4F) in rage of 20C to 60C (-4F to 140F)
Sometimes a PDA is just a really obese casio watch.
A Micro-Mr. Fusion reactor capable of 1.21 GW, a flux capacitor, all the functions of a TNG tricorder, holographic projector, neural transmitter (forget neural jack, bluetooth baby!), Mini Death-Star-Style Super-Laser, car remote control, cellphone/subspace communicator, and a stylus that doubles as a light saber.
Slashdot Mirror
Crystal Method - Vegas
Crystal Method - Tweekend
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick
Lunatic Calm - Metropol
Honestly, I'm pretty sick of all the catagorization of electronic music. By my personal definition, electronic music is music that sounds electronic. That's it, and there's no subgenres to argue over. This list will probably not introduce you to much of the club scene music, with the exception of Hybrid, but it's some good stuff to listen to. Grab a p2p client (recommended: WinMX) and download some tracks. If you like it, buy the CD. This stuff is slightly older (c. 1998) and will give you a taste of the "techno invasion" the news was talking about at the time.
If you go to an east coast school paying $30G's / yr for tuition, then you deserve all the bandwidth you can eat.
If I was at a school that did that, I'd be reconsidering the Ferrari that those 4 years burned through.
Remember a few years ago when AOL's subscriber base grew faster than its network capabilities, and they turned to MCI to save their ass?
From that, this is what I would suspect would happen:
1. WCOME will go bankrupt, and be forced to liquidize assets and sell off infrastructure.
2. AOL will buy the infrastructure, thus making their entire network in-house, without accumulating WCOME's debts and any liabililties.
3. AOL get even bigger. More pr0n, yay.
I have to agree with the population density issue. Look at, for example, China instead of Japan. Although not as technological as the island nation, China uses the similar GSM systems that are spread out throughout Asia. However, leave any large metropolis or basically the east coast, and you'd wish that Iridium never went down.
Another possible issue is America is not Asian. Take a walk through your local large city Chinatown and count how many shops sell Nokia face covers. Compare this to other shopping districts. Also look at the stereotype that all Asian [guys] have cellphones on them 24/7, and how that it's pretty much true (at least in Boston anyway). From my observations (as an Asian-American as well), there is an evident natural Asian "link" to cellphones.
Do any /. readers have a white box computer? Were there any significant issues regarding warranty, price, or component quality?
I've got a success story: Recently we retired a circa 1996 whitebox P1 166 (64MB RAM, Diamond Stealth 3D, 4GB). To this date, all components are fully functional and original. The only hardware problem experienced over the years was that a few case screw threads have been stripped. Other than that, there have been no problems w/ this machine. Cost: $1600 w/ 15" monitor.
It was replaced with a P4 1.6 (512MB RAM, GeForce2, 40GB) from the same people. Cost: $750, box only. Anticipate long run as well w/ this machine.
One other thing - Don't forget that you can sometimes buy, bargain, and barter old parts at screwdriver shops.
I should have put it more clearly: Server = Server hardware
Apple will keep on rolling out Quicktime, A/V people will keep buying Apple products, and as for the media player wars, how many people actually paid ~$30 for the "Pro" versions? The real money's in the content creation tools, e.g. the video editor, streaming server, etc. Apple makes some decent money from this department, so I don't see how throwing another player into a market saturated by freebies is going to change anything.
And DivX is based on MPEG-4, which is supported in Quicktime 6.
If you have time to kill:
.
Hang out at your local shop a few times, buy some small accessories / parts to keep them pacified. Drag along an Alpha geek friend sometime just to listen in and see if the shop knows what they're doing. Once a while glance towards the workshop. Go on a Saturday, or anytime its busy. If all the customers in the place seem like idiots and/or are complaining about "where's the any key?!!," go somewhere else.
If you have a high school geek child, you might also have them ask around school. Geek children trapped in suburbia usually have a decent idea of local shops, and it'll double as bonding time away from
And pick up a copy of a localized computer magazine like Computer User. There's a good amount of useful info in there, and they have annual awards such as "Best Non-Corporate Retail Store" or some euphemism like that.
The small computer stores are just like bike shops, skate shops, etc. Use appropriate judgement.
a little clarification:
Why? Slide rules require you to know what you are doing while you are doing it, and don't allow one to mindlessly plug numbers into a calculator and accept whatever garbage comes out the other end without exercising their own judgement.
Now, assuming that it is possible to operate a complex graphing calculator mindlessly, then that means that just about anybody can use one with ease, which as everybody who's helped a friend of a friend of a friend fix their computer knows, is not true. If they were to just number crunch while brain dead, then considering the syntax of some of the higher end models, they wouldn't be taking any real advantage of the capabilities of the calculator and would thus be doing the same as using a tradeshow calculator (you know, the ones you pick up at tradeshows).
Tatooine has very little infrastructure, and the primary form of transportation are individual vehicles, e.g. speeders, speeder bikes, dewbacks, etc.
Corusant is a highly urbanized place, where although there are individual vehicles, for the sanity of existance there must exist public transportation that is utilized.
I can punch in 10 TI-83 commands in the time it takes me to punch in 3 TI-89 commands.
example:
rref([A])
TI-89:
2nd alpha r r e f alpha ( alpha A ) ENTER
12 keystrokes
TI-83:
MATRX > ALPHA B MATRX 1 ENTER
7 keystrokes
That said, I will be teaching engineering classes in the not-too-distant future, and my intention is not to allow *any* calculators.
:P
;P
So would you like me to chop my fingers off as well?
I'd like to arrange for slide-rules to be ordered by the bookstore (last I heard, they're only being made in Russia these days), and make it a requirement that students come to classes/exams with a slide rule
Well, you might as well get the abacus package too; just make sure they come pre-loaded with MATLAB.
(assuming I can get the department on side; I will provide a tutorial on its use).
Such a lost art...
Why? Slide rules require you to know what you are doing while you are doing it, and don't allow one to mindlessly plug numbers into a calculator and accept whatever garbage comes out the other end without exercising their own judgement.
If this theory were true, then the term "Technical Support" would be obsolete, and the world would be populated purely by geeks and the technically inclined but still social... so close, yet so far away..
A slide rule only keeps track of the values of your first three significant digits D for you, while the user must keep track of the power of ten P (i.e. as in scientific notation D.DDx10^P). (Fyi, a scientific slide rule *can* also handle exponential, logarithmic, trignometric, and selected power functions.)
For TI-83, press [MODE] and change the mode from Normal to Sci, and from Float to 2. Performing all computations on the calculator is also better than antiquated slide rules because nearly all round-off errors are eliminated, and numbers are calculated to the 16th digit. Duh.
The very act of paying close attention to one's calculation also forces the student to examine how reasonable the answer is in other ways, such as "does this final speed/force/pressure/temperature/etc... make sense?".
Well, if you gave the students that extra 10 minutes on the exam they might be able to actually do that wouldn't they? Many instructors criticize things that are due to professors being the sadistic egotistical bastards they are, expecially ones in the math department.
My abacus is sexier than your sliderule
I think you guys are confused at what each other are saying. I must agree that the early years of math (K-6) is a big no-no for calculators. However, in those 7 years all that's taught are the basic arithmetic operations, which is basically nothing but computation; no or little manipulation and solving. In this case, a calculator would do ALL of the work.
However, once you hit middle & high school, visualization becomes much more important. To a high level nerd it'll be easy, but to someone who thinks y = sin x forms a square, having a calculator/computer to assist in visualization (during lecture) is helpful. At this point a calculator will not do ALL of the work, and a good amount of thinking still needs to be done.
Now, at the college level, at least in engineering, things go a lil' FUBAR. Many of my professors simply ban calculators from exams entirely, and keep computation to a minimum (4x20, sin(pi/4), etc.). At this point, you are no longer computing, but solving problems. Even a TI-89, TI-83, a TI-86 backup in a locker, 2 slide rules, an abacus, 8 fingers and two thumbs don't help much, if my grades mean anything.
Have the Red Sox won the series?
oh great, back to PCI video...
In Star Wars terms,
Europe = Corusant
America = Tatooine.
Oh, and about your question, yes.
Read this: ROAD TEST: How We Won the Insight Fuel-Economy Challenge. Without Cheating. Much.
Cd = D / (1/2 r v^2 S)
Cd = Coefficient of Drag
D = Drag force
r = Desnity of air
v = airspeed velocity
S = Reference surface area
There's also another entire set of equations for induced drag, aka drag due to wingtip votices. But for cars & trains, profile drag should be pretty sufficient. Now, if a 777 fuselage has the same cross sectional area as a train, and the train is a lot longer, is it more economical (aeordynamically) to use that same amount of thrust/power to push the shorter 777 or the longer train?
No it's...
1.. 2.. 3.. 4..
Hey! It's my luggage combination!
(Nor did you see Spaceballs, huh?)
Imagine what it would be with the inflation adjustment. Then again, how much would the design of a functional flux capacitor be worth?
The issue you're describing is one of mechanical build quality, not of the feasibility of the underlying technology. Wind-up technology has already proven itself in millions of units called wristwatches. Now, the thing I could see this make a market for is the Nomadic Geek. I've already rigged up a 4 D-cell auxiliary power pac to keep in my backpack to power my discman, palm, cellhphone, calculator, etc. It's heavy, but prior to getting recharable batteries it was a great idea (hell, it cost me $9 in parts from Radioshack). If you could have a sigle crank unit (no pun intended) that you can wind up and have it provide up to 6V at say, 500mA for an hour, then it would be a very useful universal charger for the various things you carry around. But then again, most people have cars & homes...
LOL.. this has to be the funniest "scientific advance" I've ever seen on slashdot... not counting everything that contains the string "Microsoft Works"
Here's one better than that. Casio G-Shock DW6100-1V.
Thermometer Functions:
Measuring range: -20C to 60C (or -4oF to 140oF)
Display range: -20.0C to 60.0C (or -4.0F to 140.0F)
Display unit: 0.1C ( or 0.2oF )
Measurement timing: every 2 minutes
Memory capacity: up to 30 sets of Data ( month, date, hour, minutes, temperature )
Other: Memory timing (4 intervals), Temperature graph, Temperature calibration function
Temperature sensor precision:
+/- 2oC (+/- 3.6F) in rage of 10C to 40C (50F to 104F)
+/- 3oC (+/- 5.4F) in rage of 20C to 60C (-4F to 140F)
Sometimes a PDA is just a really obese casio watch.
A Micro-Mr. Fusion reactor capable of 1.21 GW, a flux capacitor, all the functions of a TNG tricorder, holographic projector, neural transmitter (forget neural jack, bluetooth baby!), Mini Death-Star-Style Super-Laser, car remote control, cellphone/subspace communicator, and a stylus that doubles as a light saber.
And a can opener if you could squeeze that in.
Turbyne