Perhaps, some philantrophist can buy this piece of history to donate to a museum? Such pieces of history deserve more exposure than in the home of a private collector.
Anyone who says that shortwave is dead and pointless have obviously not listened to SW broadcasts coming out from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. And I challenge you to find it streamed live on the Net. Nothing beats hearing first hand (or first ear?) to propanganda. In the future, where every country and every civilization on the planet has access to the Internet, then yes, SW will be dead. But until then, SW remains the best form of receiving information (or propanganda) about places with no Internet connectivity.
While being imaginative is a necessary prequisite to do science, the hard (and crucial) part of doing science is to obtain quantitative results that can withstand the tests of experiments and that predict new and useful phenomena and that hopefully, will be useful to humanity. In all these respects, Poe does not qualify as a scientist. He may have the ideas first, yes, but ideas are not sufficient.
The reason Transmeta failed in the laptop market is the reason they will fail again in the tablet market. For the average user, CPU is not the major power consumer. The screen and HDD are... unless researchers come up with better battery technologies (fuel cells?) and power conserving screen (with same brightness), Transmeta will be doomed.
Several years ago, HP ha a product called CapShare. A really cool handheld scanner that has an on-device LCD screen that you can perform simple functions like editing, rotating, etc. with. You can then transfer via infrared to your laptop or, better, to a printer! Unfortunately, this product has now been discontinued. I used it for a while, and it was great, except for one thing -- most of the pages that I need to scan from the library are bound -- and the words near the spine tend to become unreadable...
It is probably easier to send kids off to various parts of the world and have them learn to speak various languages, and then have them come back to serve the military, or whoever needs translation services.
The human brain is probably the only translator that can perform up to our expectations. I just don't see the silver lining to take us from Babelfish-like translation to something the DARPA project proposes to do.
Great minds reading/. who are interested in this article should definitely make their way to Pasadena this summer for the Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School. The dateline for applying has passed, but you can always gatecrash, or monitor the site to read the lecture notes online (they better be available).
The first such concept was demonstrated years ago by Andrew Turberfield of Oxford. Read about it, for example, here.
The work reported in the current article is a step forward, not revolutionary.
P.S. Incidentally, Turberfield was trained as a low temperature physicist before moving into biology. Just goes to show that inter-disciplinary research often results in cool ideas!
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Build an electrocardiogram. The students get to learn some electronics, some programming, some data analysis, and some biology.
Perhaps, some philantrophist can buy this piece of history to donate to a museum? Such pieces of history deserve more exposure than in the home of a private collector.
Remember AlohaNet? It is all back to square one...
Anyone who says that shortwave is dead and pointless have obviously not listened to SW broadcasts coming out from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. And I challenge you to find it streamed live on the Net. Nothing beats hearing first hand (or first ear?) to propanganda. In the future, where every country and every civilization on the planet has access to the Internet, then yes, SW will be dead. But until then, SW remains the best form of receiving information (or propanganda) about places with no Internet connectivity.
In the words of Ken Rockwell, you are an equipment measurbator, the bottom level of all photographers! Burn in hell!
While being imaginative is a necessary prequisite to do science, the hard (and crucial) part of doing science is to obtain quantitative results that can withstand the tests of experiments and that predict new and useful phenomena and that hopefully, will be useful to humanity. In all these respects, Poe does not qualify as a scientist. He may have the ideas first, yes, but ideas are not sufficient.
The reason Transmeta failed in the laptop market is the reason they will fail again in the tablet market. For the average user, CPU is not the major power consumer. The screen and HDD are... unless researchers come up with better battery technologies (fuel cells?) and power conserving screen (with same brightness), Transmeta will be doomed.
Several years ago, HP ha a product called CapShare. A really cool handheld scanner that has an on-device LCD screen that you can perform simple functions like editing, rotating, etc. with. You can then transfer via infrared to your laptop or, better, to a printer! Unfortunately, this product has now been discontinued. I used it for a while, and it was great, except for one thing -- most of the pages that I need to scan from the library are bound -- and the words near the spine tend to become unreadable...
It is probably easier to send kids off to various parts of the world and have them learn to speak various languages, and then have them come back to serve the military, or whoever needs translation services. The human brain is probably the only translator that can perform up to our expectations. I just don't see the silver lining to take us from Babelfish-like translation to something the DARPA project proposes to do.
Great minds reading /. who are interested in this article should definitely make their way to Pasadena this summer for the Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School. The dateline for applying has passed, but you can always gatecrash, or monitor the site to read the lecture notes online (they better be available).
For a start, the reviewer with 4 degrees should know that it's an automaton, not automation, and many automata, not automations.
Can I run Napster/Kazaa off a campus IP without getting sued?
The first such concept was demonstrated years ago by Andrew Turberfield of Oxford. Read about it, for example, here. The work reported in the current article is a step forward, not revolutionary. P.S. Incidentally, Turberfield was trained as a low temperature physicist before moving into biology. Just goes to show that inter-disciplinary research often results in cool ideas!