Oddly enough, none of your requirements seem to be the least bit related to the smartphone functionality of Treo...
Those were additional requirements, ie, things that are "still missing" from the "closest to the ideal everything-device". I was trying to describe the additional cool whiz-bang features which would make it the perfect device in my dreams. Jeez man... shall I complement the smart phone some more?!?
The Treo 650 Smartphone is a wonderful device! It slices, it dices, it's the most verstile tool on the market! WOW! Amazing! If I were to get a cell phone, this would certainly be the one I'd get!
...a few things, but this is the closest to the ideal everything-device that I'm waiting for. Still missing is:
A fully functional GPS with maps.
~4 megapixel camera with reasonable optical quality which records the lat/long in the EXIF data on each photo.
MP3 player which can hold about as many songs as an iPod mini
Of course all of this in the same small package as the Treo (with exisiting features) and a battery life that will last me a full day. When such a device is created, then I'll finally bite-the-bullet and get a cell phone plan...
Because accidents still happen when intelligent people are driving!
Sure they do, you're right -- neither one of us ever asserted otherwise.
You just claimed that "intelligence has nothing to do with many of the problems on the roads today". If you agree that getting killed is a "problem on the road today", then the study in question showed that indeed there is a correlation with intelligence, thereby directly contradicting your claim (specifically the words "has nothing to do with").
Your details neglect a whole slew of other factors too
Your right, the study in question is very limited in its scope because it only involved Austrialian Military Veterans. However, it's still correlation.
Also by leaving out the number of traffic accidents that don't result in deaths you are leaving out almost all traffic accidents since by far most don't result in death.
You bet -- the only thing the study showed is that one of the many problems on the road today is correlated with intelligence. The study didn't say "all" problems, or even "most", just one of the problems, namely traffic deaths. But either way, that's still a correlation ("has something to do with")...
And a quick survey of the accidents my geek friends have caused against the accidents my non-geek friends have caused would say the opposite.
It's a statistical mean, there are always going to be exceptions.
Even your figures help support my claim since intelligence =! no traffic accidents.
I would consider death by traffic accident one of "many of the problems on the roads today", as you put it. So I don't see how it supports your claim...
Sorry, but intelligence has nothing to do with many of the problems on the roads today
You clearly don't have facts to back that up. I recall reading a blurb in Science about a study which showed exactly the opposite of your claim, there is indeed a correlation between IQ and driving. A quick google search and I found a reference to that study:
An item in www.sciencemag.org on "The Practical Benefits of General Intelligence" says "people who score poorly on IQ tests also have more accidents."
The study of Australian veterans under age 40 showed those with IQs of 80 to 84 had 146.7 traffic deaths per 10,000 compared with 51.3 deaths for those with IQs above 115.
Although I didn't actually formally use any of these math books, my sister and several of my friends used
"Integrated Math" published by Houghton Mifflin Co. The idea with this book is that they teach you math by showing you how to use it and not do like "Saxon" and merely drill you to death. I would recommend at least taking a good look at this series for high school level mathematics.
If you would like something a little bit more advanced (college freshman level),
Integrated Physics and Calculus by my undergraduate advisor and math professor is a very nice text that integrates the learning of calculus with uses in physics. I would recommend something like this over the Feynman series that people talk about.
There's always a way to contrive some benchmark that will make system x seems faster than system y -- try hard enough, and you'll find a way.
But what matters is whether or not the benchmark is in some way relevant to the work you're doing. I can tell you, for the stuff that I'm doing, this benchmark has relevance. The article's biggest complaint is that gcc3 is being used on all the processors -- well welcome to the real world buddy!
I use a an analysis package called Root all day long. Go looking through the makefile for Root and you'll see that when it's compiled on macosx it uses gcc3 and when it's compiled on linux running on intel processors, it uses gcc3. So these benchmarks reflect the kind of performance I should see -- hence it's relevant to me and thousands of other people... that makes it a pretty good benchmark IMO.
The past Director of NASA said to me a few years ago that he thought the agency had about a decade to prove itself. Around 2010 the Baby Boomers will start to retire and the Federal budget will come under greater pressure.
I think that this is an excellent point. Having grown up in the 1980s and 90s, I watched NASA's budget drastically shrink relative to the GDP and I watched NASA stumble along at a terribly slow pace with minimal public support. One can't help but think how great it must have been in the 60s and early 70s when the public was jazzed and scientists were having fun. But this is a frightening point...
Can it really get worse? I personally feel there might be something to this: what happens when a large part of the population suddenly retires, the nation goes broke? Can interest shift further away from space exploration? Is this our last chance to get people interested in NASA before we see an even greater decline in public support?
The ISS program, and the supply flights to build & support it, will have a total price tag of at around $100,000,000,000.
Scientific-notation kinds of fundage ($1e11)!! You'd have to be a NASA researcher just to count it all.
To put that in perspective, while the total cost of the ISS program may be around 100 billion USD after 15 years of design and construction, the US Military has a budget of 420 billion USD for a single year.
Doesn't make it seem like quite as much any more, does it?
Prone to crashes; minimal preferences; limited support for Flash.
Notice that all of these cons are just what you'd expect in beta software -- in fact, improvements in all of these areas has been made since the release of 0.6.
This suggests to me that Chimera is going to be one awesome brower when it reaches 1.0
My fiance and I were also faced with this issue, so can tell you my thought process that went into buying a diamond.
We looked at like this: what traditions do we want to follow when getting married? (we also questioned the tradition of marriage...)
For me personally, rings were not a tradition I cared for -- I would much rather place my money elsewhere. My fiance, on the other hand, is very much a ring person and particularly likes the tradition. She does, however, completely understand and admit that diamonds are significantly over-valued, blah, blah, blah...
So how did I rationalize spending $1000 dollars on a silly diamond ring? I decided that 1) the ring is important to her. 2) it's a one time investment. 3) when I want to go buy a 3000 computer that she doesn't care for, I'm going to want her support too.
My recommendation is thus to weigh BOTH of your priorities. Although the ring may be almost meaningless to you, find out how important it is to her, and if it's important, make the investment. She'll enjoy it for many, many years... (certainly longer than you'll enjoy your $3000 computer:-)
Right. It's nothing personal against slashdot, Apple just blocked any site pointing directly to the trailer. They've done this before -- and hey, they want to advertise, right?
Nobody seems to have posted this yet, but you can just go to Apple's trailers site and click on the obvious graphic.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, Moller Skycar website has some cool stuff as well, but I'm sure most have checked it out already...
Those were additional requirements, ie, things that are "still missing" from the "closest to the ideal everything-device". I was trying to describe the additional cool whiz-bang features which would make it the perfect device in my dreams. Jeez man... shall I complement the smart phone some more?!?
The Treo 650 Smartphone is a wonderful device! It slices, it dices, it's the most verstile tool on the market! WOW! Amazing! If I were to get a cell phone, this would certainly be the one I'd get!
Of course all of this in the same small package as the Treo (with exisiting features) and a battery life that will last me a full day. When such a device is created, then I'll finally bite-the-bullet and get a cell phone plan...
You just claimed that "intelligence has nothing to do with many of the problems on the roads today". If you agree that getting killed is a "problem on the road today", then the study in question showed that indeed there is a correlation with intelligence, thereby directly contradicting your claim (specifically the words "has nothing to do with"). Your right, the study in question is very limited in its scope because it only involved Austrialian Military Veterans. However, it's still correlation. You bet -- the only thing the study showed is that one of the many problems on the road today is correlated with intelligence. The study didn't say "all" problems, or even "most", just one of the problems, namely traffic deaths. But either way, that's still a correlation ("has something to do with")...
Yeah, boy, those Anonymous Cowards are real Karma whores...
Although I didn't actually formally use any of these math books, my sister and several of my friends used "Integrated Math" published by Houghton Mifflin Co. The idea with this book is that they teach you math by showing you how to use it and not do like "Saxon" and merely drill you to death. I would recommend at least taking a good look at this series for high school level mathematics.
If you would like something a little bit more advanced (college freshman level), Integrated Physics and Calculus by my undergraduate advisor and math professor is a very nice text that integrates the learning of calculus with uses in physics. I would recommend something like this over the Feynman series that people talk about.
A couple of avenues to consider...
Actually the root packages also have Fortran code that use gcc (f77)... still relevant...
There's always a way to contrive some benchmark that will make system x seems faster than system y -- try hard enough, and you'll find a way.
But what matters is whether or not the benchmark is in some way relevant to the work you're doing. I can tell you, for the stuff that I'm doing, this benchmark has relevance. The article's biggest complaint is that gcc3 is being used on all the processors -- well welcome to the real world buddy!
I use a an analysis package called Root all day long. Go looking through the makefile for Root and you'll see that when it's compiled on macosx it uses gcc3 and when it's compiled on linux running on intel processors, it uses gcc3. So these benchmarks reflect the kind of performance I should see -- hence it's relevant to me and thousands of other people... that makes it a pretty good benchmark IMO.
DFI think that this is an excellent point. Having grown up in the 1980s and 90s, I watched NASA's budget drastically shrink relative to the GDP and I watched NASA stumble along at a terribly slow pace with minimal public support. One can't help but think how great it must have been in the 60s and early 70s when the public was jazzed and scientists were having fun. But this is a frightening point...
Can it really get worse? I personally feel there might be something to this: what happens when a large part of the population suddenly retires, the nation goes broke? Can interest shift further away from space exploration? Is this our last chance to get people interested in NASA before we see an even greater decline in public support?
What do you think?
To put that in perspective, while the total cost of the ISS program may be around 100 billion USD after 15 years of design and construction, the US Military has a budget of 420 billion USD for a single year.
Doesn't make it seem like quite as much any more, does it?
Notice that all of these cons are just what you'd expect in beta software -- in fact, improvements in all of these areas has been made since the release of 0.6.
This suggests to me that Chimera is going to be one awesome brower when it reaches 1.0
How did he manage to install Steve Jobs on that thing?
My fiance and I were also faced with this issue, so can tell you my thought process that went into buying a diamond.
We looked at like this: what traditions do we want to follow when getting married? (we also questioned the tradition of marriage...)
For me personally, rings were not a tradition I cared for -- I would much rather place my money elsewhere. My fiance, on the other hand, is very much a ring person and particularly likes the tradition. She does, however, completely understand and admit that diamonds are significantly over-valued, blah, blah, blah...
So how did I rationalize spending $1000 dollars on a silly diamond ring? I decided that 1) the ring is important to her. 2) it's a one time investment. 3) when I want to go buy a 3000 computer that she doesn't care for, I'm going to want her support too.
My recommendation is thus to weigh BOTH of your priorities. Although the ring may be almost meaningless to you, find out how important it is to her, and if it's important, make the investment. She'll enjoy it for many, many years... (certainly longer than you'll enjoy your $3000 computer :-)
Right. It's nothing personal against slashdot, Apple just blocked any site pointing directly to the trailer. They've done this before -- and hey, they want to advertise, right? Nobody seems to have posted this yet, but you can just go to Apple's trailers site and click on the obvious graphic.