Agreed. In fact I'm thinking of the main character of William Gibson's
Idoru, whose job was to extract the essence from a huge pile of
information. The information was related to some person, and the 'essence'
would be their thought patterns or the like. I thought that was totally
cool; only a few people in the world could do that. Even though today's
data mining isn't quite as cool, it's a lot more than simply using
grep(1).
I had to wait this long, to be able to "Press Any Key". W00t!
Bah! What about the real problem..
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From the title, I thought this story would address the psychological
problem of jacking out. Net addiction and its withdrawal symptoms.
Instead, I get this crap about market forces which are a gross in a dozen.
Enough of the rant, I need to check my mail for the 144th time today...
You know, they also grow coffee in Java. The volcanic soil gives the coffee an interesting overtone.
Which brings us to the question: what is the origin of 'java' in the meaning 'coffee'? Maybe Java's reputation as a coffee producer has something to do with this...
Oh, BTW, if I wanted to talk about a great multiplatform object-oriented language, it would be Python. Apart from the lack of hype and big-business support, it's no worse than Java.
For those of you itching to report bugs (yes, there still are some minor quirks), go on to opera.linux on usenet. There are Opera staff around to help you with problems, and accept bugreports. It's the best computing support I've ever got for free.
We've had this in laptops for ages. Of course not with MRAM, but the effect is similar. When the machine is put into sleep, the memory contents are copied into a swap partition, and picked up from there when you start up again.
Of course something else must be done, for example with CPU registers. Interestingly, MRAM technology also holds the key to 'magnetic CPU' which maintains its state in the same way as MRAM. That way, you have in a single chip, CPU, RAM and harddisk functionality.
Just kidding.. spinors are the mathematical descriptions (wavefunctions) of particles that have spin. On the other hand, I disagree with the original story where it said that 'spintronics is short for spin electronics'.
Because electronics are not always about electrons. In many semiconductors, the charge carriers are positive. What matters is the transfer of charge, which comes in units of e, the electron charge.
So, electronics is about charge (e) transfer, and spintronics is about spin transfer. Even then, it need not be electron spin.
Computer science major Eric Caron, 19, also worked a Flash problem. In one comic book, the Flash vibrated his molecules to melt ice that encased him. Caron tried to figure out how fast the hero would have had to vibrate.
"It was close to 6,000 mph hour," Caron says. "It's not the most realistic thing. But hey, if he can run at light speed..."
But if you assume he can actually run at the speed of light, you can derive almost everything, even nonphysical things. In the same way, if you start by assuming that 1==2 then you can basically prove anything (even wrong things) mathematically.
No, this is completely different. Antifreeze just keeps the water from freezing, even at subzero temperatures.
However, there could be other fluids besides water that are useful in heat conduction and convection. These could have the advantage in not rotting the intestines of your 1337 laptop in case it decides to take a leak. You'd still have to explain the stain of some freaky fluorocarbon on your pants, though.
This is a more general problem in our societies: Women are accepted (even expected) to express their sexuality in their appearance. Men are expected to dress like asexual drones. This is a blatant form of sexual discrimitation, or inequality.
I'm one of the many guys who want to change this picture. But 'the rest' will often regard us as perverts of some kind. Think about this: William Wallace (Braveheart) in his kilt is a very masculine figure, but men who wear kilts in our society can get some strange looks. It's like the society is afraid of male sexuality!
The keyb looks way too small. Doesn't seem too good for typing. And if your computer's input stream is crippled, what use is the whole thing? I mean, you could buy a dedicated mp3/dvd portable just as well.
Then again it does look k3w1 and it has a Crusoe.. *wipes off drool*
> Why the distinction for couples? Couldn't they just say $400/person?
No, because here in/. we use a completely different mathematics where, for instance, 50 + 2 - 2 = 48. If someone says 2*400 = 800 it might work, but it's in a different algebra so must be clearly defined.
> I think this product is targeted towards the advanced users out there, as much of the "mainstream" users would at least think twice before buying a PC, then have to install an OS. However, most of the people I know who install and configure their own operating systems (whether windows or linux) tend to want to build their own systems themselves.
Good point! In fact the OS could be thought of as one component of an entire working PC. So it feels kind of silly to have a pre-assembled kit with just one component left as an exercise for the hobbyist. Especially when he/she has to worry about its compatibility with the other components.
Where's your logic? A tensor can be represented as a matrix, so where's the progress? Fortunately I have a better suggestion, thought it requires renaming the first part:
The Scalar (i.e. the one)
The Vector (The arrow of the few people who break through)
The Matrix (The array of powerplant-confined people is released)
Go check out the page on service tunnels. It's interesting he got the idea from lock picking in Feynman's book (which of course we've all read).
When I worked at CERN last summer, discovering the tunnels reminded me of NetHack; in all buildings the floors were numbered, but at some points you could descend the same staircases well below one (where they used certain letters instead). There wasn't any of that fun lock-picking: it's a scientific research facility and nothing is secret. In addition to heat pipes and fat pipes, you could see some 30kV cables going to the accelerators, and vacuum pipes (for protons etc) coming out. Then sometimes there was water leaking on top of them, it made you feel really safe. (Often the radiation safety seemed so bad that all the water there must have been heavy water. You know, the kind which weighs 2kg for every kg.)
Guess I was scared of a power outage, because at some places you had a kilometre of the shoulder-wide tunnel without any exits. Interesting how a kilometre of walking is nothing on the ground, but when the tunnel's so narrow you have to tilt sideways to get through, it feels a lot longer.
About the lock-picking - there were some 'forbidden' doors but you really didn't want to go there. That would be the way to the accelerator, or another highly radiative facility.
By the way, because of how CERN is situated, you could go from Switzerland to France via the tunnels. Which was cool because the French customs officers were being such jerks.
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Agreed. In fact I'm thinking of the main character of William Gibson's Idoru, whose job was to extract the essence from a huge pile of information. The information was related to some person, and the 'essence' would be their thought patterns or the like. I thought that was totally cool; only a few people in the world could do that. Even though today's data mining isn't quite as cool, it's a lot more than simply using grep(1).
I had to wait this long, to be able to "Press Any Key". W00t!
Enough of the rant, I need to check my mail for the 144th time today...
Which brings us to the question: what is the origin of 'java' in the meaning 'coffee'? Maybe Java's reputation as a coffee producer has something to do with this...
Oh, BTW, if I wanted to talk about a great multiplatform object-oriented language, it would be Python. Apart from the lack of hype and big-business support, it's no worse than Java.
For those of you itching to report bugs (yes, there still are some minor quirks), go on to opera.linux on usenet. There are Opera staff around to help you with problems, and accept bugreports. It's the best computing support I've ever got for free.
Of course something else must be done, for example with CPU registers. Interestingly, MRAM technology also holds the key to 'magnetic CPU' which maintains its state in the same way as MRAM. That way, you have in a single chip, CPU, RAM and harddisk functionality.
Just kidding.. spinors are the mathematical descriptions (wavefunctions) of particles that have spin. On the other hand, I disagree with the original story where it said that 'spintronics is short for spin electronics'.
Because electronics are not always about electrons. In many semiconductors, the charge carriers are positive. What matters is the transfer of charge, which comes in units of e, the electron charge.
So, electronics is about charge (e) transfer, and spintronics is about spin transfer. Even then, it need not be electron spin.
An iMac is not a PC!
Well, my computer usage has reached the state where I have to use latex even for writing documents.
Mr. Anderson.. I find your lack of cooperation.. disturbing.
You probably don't know what kind of perverts there are in the UK government. In fact, you don't want to know.
But if you assume he can actually run at the speed of light, you can derive almost everything, even nonphysical things. In the same way, if you start by assuming that 1==2 then you can basically prove anything (even wrong things) mathematically.
However, there could be other fluids besides water that are useful in heat conduction and convection. These could have the advantage in not rotting the intestines of your 1337 laptop in case it decides to take a leak. You'd still have to explain the stain of some freaky fluorocarbon on your pants, though.
No, but they let you download a jpeg of a $10 note for you to print.
I'm one of the many guys who want to change this picture. But 'the rest' will often regard us as perverts of some kind. Think about this: William Wallace (Braveheart) in his kilt is a very masculine figure, but men who wear kilts in our society can get some strange looks. It's like the society is afraid of male sexuality!
"New stuff is developed for Jornada. iPAQ support still continues."
Doesn't that sound a little contradictory? From the latter you could imagine it's iPAQ killed and Jornada lives on...
Then again it does look k3w1 and it has a Crusoe.. *wipes off drool*
People who make such lame jokes should be breathing some HCN.
Yes, but every person who ate potatoes in the 16th century is now dead. Does that mean potatoes are lethal?
1 mole of Americium = 1.101 moles of Europium
Well if we're really precise, the plural of 'Pentium ' is 'Pentia'. Therefore when they speak of Pentiums they mean something different... ;-)
No, because here in /. we use a completely different mathematics where, for instance, 50 + 2 - 2 = 48. If someone says 2*400 = 800 it might work, but it's in a different algebra so must be clearly defined.
Good point! In fact the OS could be thought of as one component of an entire working PC. So it feels kind of silly to have a pre-assembled kit with just one component left as an exercise for the hobbyist. Especially when he/she has to worry about its compatibility with the other components.
When I worked at CERN last summer, discovering the tunnels reminded me of NetHack; in all buildings the floors were numbered, but at some points you could descend the same staircases well below one (where they used certain letters instead). There wasn't any of that fun lock-picking: it's a scientific research facility and nothing is secret. In addition to heat pipes and fat pipes, you could see some 30kV cables going to the accelerators, and vacuum pipes (for protons etc) coming out. Then sometimes there was water leaking on top of them, it made you feel really safe. (Often the radiation safety seemed so bad that all the water there must have been heavy water. You know, the kind which weighs 2kg for every kg.)
Guess I was scared of a power outage, because at some places you had a kilometre of the shoulder-wide tunnel without any exits. Interesting how a kilometre of walking is nothing on the ground, but when the tunnel's so narrow you have to tilt sideways to get through, it feels a lot longer.
About the lock-picking - there were some 'forbidden' doors but you really didn't want to go there. That would be the way to the accelerator, or another highly radiative facility.
By the way, because of how CERN is situated, you could go from Switzerland to France via the tunnels. Which was cool because the French customs officers were being such jerks.