not to make myself out as a loser or anything, but most online tutorials explain the how, but not the why of the problem. When I first learned about interfacing the two languages, I made hundreds of code mistakes, and I could never find out why my code didn't work. No web tutorial tackled the task of debugging bad code, none explained what SQL was to me, it just said "do this, then do that". So, before you diss the book, look into the why of having a book, then critizise.
Looks like you can't trust everything you read. Somewhere I read that Macs AGP port is configured differently, not running on the 1.5v the newer ports are. I also never knew Apple was using IDE, thank goodness for that little bit of info.
say... would Apple also be following industry standard on ATAPI devices? How about DDR ram? and PCI cards (like my new Audigy 2?) (Things I'de LOVE to know before I upgrade again)
I completely agree. The problem in Mac-land right now is that while they have superior software (in just about every thing I can imagine), the hardware is so far behind.... This has been stated so many times but never hit home as true until Paladium started becoming a worrisome thing for me. Personally, I'de love to move to a Mac, but it's just out of the question to pay that much for hardware that I'm locked into for a long time. They have came a long way with standardization and upgradibility, but it's still relitivly crappy compared to the intel compat. market. I either see Apple drastically reorganizing their business as a software only company and releasing their software and periferals on all hardware, or them finally making the transition to more complete PC compatibility. I'de love to just take my AGP card (Radeon 8500 Pro) and my 3 maxtor harddrives out of my computer and plug them into a Mac when/if I get one, but I know right now this is practically an impossibility. I only hope someone out there is listening..........
Is it just me or does that name sound untrustworthy...... i mean remember McCarthyism from the Korean war, where he blacklisted everyone as communists... I'm not too sure if I'de believe his work right away lol. But anyways, nice book, after I get through War and Peace I might get to it....
FINALLY!!! That show was actually pretty lame compared to the Next Generation, and the sadest thing about it is they have the coolest looking Enterprize yet. Those Sovergn class Ships make the Galaxy class crusiers look so old and obsolete. Seriously though, they better do something awesome to avoid going down in history as the least watched star trek ever. First step: COME BACK TO MAINSTREAM CABLE PLEEEEEEASE!!!!!
I wish we could get it but our cable company is too busy restructuring than getting new channels and stuff. This sucks a lot, I have to steal TechTV from a friend of mine with a pc and cable internet (luckily we get that from them....) It's a sad life under adelphia. Give me a satilite any day if it were for having a fast internet connection.
Google it. Basically, its a program you can have started at you school where all the techies can join. It's not exclusive to computers, but hey, digital cinematography and digital art make it all worth it;) anyways, this is a national program that was started at my school when a guidance counselor told me to "join a club". Turns out, after P(r)ep Club, and Jock Club (no kidding), there wasn't really too much else offered. So I got to googling about computer clubs and found out its really awesome. Here in Kentucky they have yearly big events at the Lousiville Center with all kinds of computer hardware vendors and stuff. Dell, Compaq, HP, Lexmark, and a bunch of others came up there to show off their new technologies to us. We even got to test drive OS X before it came out!!!!! (That made the day for most of us, watching that program that displayed the little bomb movie then launched an attack against itself trying to crash the computer was pretty impressive, back then I didn't even know of anything like it. well g2g, check into it...
yeah but you still have to have a reciept:-/, and since most plastically sealed things with rebates (cd players, other cheap electronic goods) have the upcs behind the plastic, you have to wrestle the plastic for like an hour before it gives up the item, then you have to hunt through the piles of discard to find and cut out a little barcode, that is if it isnt destroyed in the first process....
Glad to see those things got a use past Mail in rebates. Never did like sending in those UPCs though, seems like a huge hassle for a little picture of a bunch of bars. Why can't they just be like removeable stamps that you just tape to the envelope or something? oh well, so much for my troll. btw, nice artwork.
The beauty of it is, it wouldn't need to be tons, and they wouldn't have to be injected neccisary. And besides, every day walking through your house you intercept hundreds of thousands of airborne bacteria. This is nothing new to us.
The other advantage is unlike nanites, these things are very temporary. Our immune systems would nuke them pretty quickly, within a few hours in most cases. But for uses like insulin production, you'de have to develope one that was resistant, or actually lived somewhere else (like the human colon for example). There are billions of germs in us, but for once, we'd actually be making helper germs to combat the ones that hurt us. The ultimate antibodic/antiviral medicine.
are your problem. You might be able to use carbon nanotubes, but otherwise I dont see anything that could not rupture the cell and connect to a digital device at the same time. If we could build a silicon chip that could detect the presents of proteins that would be nice, but (pardon this comment if I'm wrong) I don't know of any chip/gate that can change states at the presents of a protein like these cells can.
There are applications of this FAR beyond those of silicon. What if you designed a circuit to detect the presents of certain viruses? You could make chemical/biological weapon detectors the size of CELLS! Also, think of what it can give us in a way of examining solutions to problems in our bodies.. you could design circuits to output certain chemicals/protiens when certain chemicals are in our blood stream. We could build cells that help filter out cancerous elements, PRODUCE INSULIN so that people would never need the shot again. This is just the tip of the iceburg on what all is possible with this new technology.
Personally I'de love to sit and tinker with them, a cell program that could provide anti-histimenes when they build up in my system would be really nice, never worry about allergys again. Pipedream maybe, but it looks really sound and possible to me.
This reminds me of an idea I came across once. Why not build a hardware gzip chip (Like the one on these PCI cards and embed it on the controller for the harddrive. While this may slow down speeds a little, we can get a lot more data on current drives. Even though this may be counter productive right now, later on with these SUPER fast disk drives we could really cram some data onto them:)
The problem is the computer industry is focused on updating the old instead of innovating for new. It took nearly 10 years before anyone even CONSIDERED moving from x86, and still half of the market is still stuck there. Personally, I think Netburst was a nice move from x86, but it wasn't enought, just a marketing scheme to get back control of the market. Anyways: I look forward to seeing new innovative techniques at advancing speeds, hopefully dropping the entire current archtectures and moving on. Just because most people want to upgrade their computers one piece at a time over the span of 5 years doesn't mean that they shouldn't be forced to upgrade all at once every now and again, it helps the economy and overall, helps drive new innovation. So in reality, I hope solid state devices do come into standard, but now is not the time. We need to get the rest of computing up to that level of readiness before we can take the next step in storage. Otherwise the storage will outrun the ability for computers to fill it.
Well, this seems kinda stupid, but if we can do it for sars, why not aids!? I mean come on, its more widespread than any of us wants to know, and if we can stop sars in its tracks, why not?
This really reminds me of that one scene where natalia punches in all that crap to traceroute to boris' computer in south america (you know, the one with the big satalite dish). it wasn't all that great of an effect, but it was a neat demonstration of technology anyways...
Now that the [RI|MP]AA is starting to lose there lawsuits, what is the likelyhood that the dmca will stand? I mean that's really all that law was intended for in the first place, but it just got grossly outta control in the hands of lawyers.
Oh no... here it comes, so don't get mad...
is the light year a measurement of distance, time or velocity ??? and since light years and parsecs can be converted, is the parsec a measurement of distance, time or velocity.. ARGH SLASHDOT!! you gave me a headache already -_-
Why would we want to catalog habitable places within 450 light years, when our current space exploration can't get past our moon!?
Also, can anyone explain the difference between a parsec and a light year???? I know its something about the arcsecond of the something and the whatchamagigger but yeah, thats about that...
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Reminds me of a certain Jim Carrey movie.....
not to make myself out as a loser or anything, but most online tutorials explain the how, but not the why of the problem. When I first learned about interfacing the two languages, I made hundreds of code mistakes, and I could never find out why my code didn't work. No web tutorial tackled the task of debugging bad code, none explained what SQL was to me, it just said "do this, then do that". So, before you diss the book, look into the why of having a book, then critizise.
Looks like you can't trust everything you read. Somewhere I read that Macs AGP port is configured differently, not running on the 1.5v the newer ports are. I also never knew Apple was using IDE, thank goodness for that little bit of info.
say... would Apple also be following industry standard on ATAPI devices? How about DDR ram? and PCI cards (like my new Audigy 2?) (Things I'de LOVE to know before I upgrade again)
I completely agree. The problem in Mac-land right now is that while they have superior software (in just about every thing I can imagine), the hardware is so far behind.... This has been stated so many times but never hit home as true until Paladium started becoming a worrisome thing for me. Personally, I'de love to move to a Mac, but it's just out of the question to pay that much for hardware that I'm locked into for a long time. They have came a long way with standardization and upgradibility, but it's still relitivly crappy compared to the intel compat. market. I either see Apple drastically reorganizing their business as a software only company and releasing their software and periferals on all hardware, or them finally making the transition to more complete PC compatibility. I'de love to just take my AGP card (Radeon 8500 Pro) and my 3 maxtor harddrives out of my computer and plug them into a Mac when/if I get one, but I know right now this is practically an impossibility. I only hope someone out there is listening..........
Is it just me or does that name sound untrustworthy...... i mean remember McCarthyism from the Korean war, where he blacklisted everyone as communists... I'm not too sure if I'de believe his work right away lol. But anyways, nice book, after I get through War and Peace I might get to it....
I always thought this was how an LED worked....
FINALLY!!! That show was actually pretty lame compared to the Next Generation, and the sadest thing about it is they have the coolest looking Enterprize yet. Those Sovergn class Ships make the Galaxy class crusiers look so old and obsolete. Seriously though, they better do something awesome to avoid going down in history as the least watched star trek ever. First step: COME BACK TO MAINSTREAM CABLE PLEEEEEEASE!!!!!
I wish we could get it but our cable company is too busy restructuring than getting new channels and stuff. This sucks a lot, I have to steal TechTV from a friend of mine with a pc and cable internet (luckily we get that from them....) It's a sad life under adelphia. Give me a satilite any day if it were for having a fast internet connection.
Google it. Basically, its a program you can have started at you school where all the techies can join. It's not exclusive to computers, but hey, digital cinematography and digital art make it all worth it ;) anyways, this is a national program that was started at my school when a guidance counselor told me to "join a club". Turns out, after P(r)ep Club, and Jock Club (no kidding), there wasn't really too much else offered. So I got to googling about computer clubs and found out its really awesome. Here in Kentucky they have yearly big events at the Lousiville Center with all kinds of computer hardware vendors and stuff. Dell, Compaq, HP, Lexmark, and a bunch of others came up there to show off their new technologies to us. We even got to test drive OS X before it came out!!!!! (That made the day for most of us, watching that program that displayed the little bomb movie then launched an attack against itself trying to crash the computer was pretty impressive, back then I didn't even know of anything like it. well g2g, check into it...
yeah but you still have to have a reciept :-/, and since most plastically sealed things with rebates (cd players, other cheap electronic goods) have the upcs behind the plastic, you have to wrestle the plastic for like an hour before it gives up the item, then you have to hunt through the piles of discard to find and cut out a little barcode, that is if it isnt destroyed in the first process....
Glad to see those things got a use past Mail in rebates. Never did like sending in those UPCs though, seems like a huge hassle for a little picture of a bunch of bars. Why can't they just be like removeable stamps that you just tape to the envelope or something? oh well, so much for my troll. btw, nice artwork.
This means mister checkov could have very well been saved by a device placed on his forehead during star trek 4... DUDE!!!
The beauty of it is, it wouldn't need to be tons, and they wouldn't have to be injected neccisary. And besides, every day walking through your house you intercept hundreds of thousands of airborne bacteria. This is nothing new to us.
The other advantage is unlike nanites, these things are very temporary. Our immune systems would nuke them pretty quickly, within a few hours in most cases. But for uses like insulin production, you'de have to develope one that was resistant, or actually lived somewhere else (like the human colon for example). There are billions of germs in us, but for once, we'd actually be making helper germs to combat the ones that hurt us. The ultimate antibodic/antiviral medicine.
are your problem. You might be able to use carbon nanotubes, but otherwise I dont see anything that could not rupture the cell and connect to a digital device at the same time. If we could build a silicon chip that could detect the presents of proteins that would be nice, but (pardon this comment if I'm wrong) I don't know of any chip/gate that can change states at the presents of a protein like these cells can.
There are applications of this FAR beyond those of silicon. What if you designed a circuit to detect the presents of certain viruses? You could make chemical/biological weapon detectors the size of CELLS! Also, think of what it can give us in a way of examining solutions to problems in our bodies.. you could design circuits to output certain chemicals/protiens when certain chemicals are in our blood stream. We could build cells that help filter out cancerous elements, PRODUCE INSULIN so that people would never need the shot again. This is just the tip of the iceburg on what all is possible with this new technology.
Personally I'de love to sit and tinker with them, a cell program that could provide anti-histimenes when they build up in my system would be really nice, never worry about allergys again. Pipedream maybe, but it looks really sound and possible to me.
*err i made a boo boo this morn, i meant Itanium LOL sorry :p
This reminds me of an idea I came across once. Why not build a hardware gzip chip (Like the one on these PCI cards and embed it on the controller for the harddrive. While this may slow down speeds a little, we can get a lot more data on current drives. Even though this may be counter productive right now, later on with these SUPER fast disk drives we could really cram some data onto them :)
The problem is the computer industry is focused on updating the old instead of innovating for new. It took nearly 10 years before anyone even CONSIDERED moving from x86, and still half of the market is still stuck there. Personally, I think Netburst was a nice move from x86, but it wasn't enought, just a marketing scheme to get back control of the market. Anyways: I look forward to seeing new innovative techniques at advancing speeds, hopefully dropping the entire current archtectures and moving on. Just because most people want to upgrade their computers one piece at a time over the span of 5 years doesn't mean that they shouldn't be forced to upgrade all at once every now and again, it helps the economy and overall, helps drive new innovation. So in reality, I hope solid state devices do come into standard, but now is not the time. We need to get the rest of computing up to that level of readiness before we can take the next step in storage. Otherwise the storage will outrun the ability for computers to fill it.
Well, this seems kinda stupid, but if we can do it for sars, why not aids!? I mean come on, its more widespread than any of us wants to know, and if we can stop sars in its tracks, why not?
is it just me, or is there a LOT of different ways to make a high capacity hard drive these days.....
This really reminds me of that one scene where natalia punches in all that crap to traceroute to boris' computer in south america (you know, the one with the big satalite dish). it wasn't all that great of an effect, but it was a neat demonstration of technology anyways...
Now that the [RI|MP]AA is starting to lose there lawsuits, what is the likelyhood that the dmca will stand? I mean that's really all that law was intended for in the first place, but it just got grossly outta control in the hands of lawyers.
Oh no... here it comes, so don't get mad...
is the light year a measurement of distance, time or velocity ??? and since light years and parsecs can be converted, is the parsec a measurement of distance, time or velocity.. ARGH SLASHDOT!! you gave me a headache already -_-
Why would we want to catalog habitable places within 450 light years, when our current space exploration can't get past our moon!?
Also, can anyone explain the difference between a parsec and a light year???? I know its something about the arcsecond of the something and the whatchamagigger but yeah, thats about that...