I'm not sure that practical application of the
theory is a good measure. A large body of CS is
very theoretical in nature. Many of my friends in
grad school do very mathematical stuff, which I don't think can really be applied to everyday programming. Systems and graphics are not the whole and sole of CS research. (Most of my friends do theory and wouldn't know CVS anyway!)
The article says that the plane is non-polluting - something I hear often of electric-driven things. Is there any quantitative measure of how much lesser pollution results from the electricity generation itself?
Well smaller and smaller troubles me too. With 5.25in floppies, one scratch on the disk, and, maybe a few kilobytes gone. With 50 Terabytes/inch^2, all the literary work of all ages is gone. How easy would it be to salvage one of these disks?
Maybe NASA had a read error and thinks that CIA, FBI and NSA think that NASA should do it.
On a related note, can mind-R and mind-RW technology be far behind mind reading?
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I'm not sure that practical application of the theory is a good measure. A large body of CS is very theoretical in nature. Many of my friends in grad school do very mathematical stuff, which I don't think can really be applied to everyday programming. Systems and graphics are not the whole and sole of CS research. (Most of my friends do theory and wouldn't know CVS anyway!)
The article says that the plane is non-polluting - something I hear often of electric-driven things. Is there any quantitative measure of how much lesser pollution results from the electricity generation itself?
Well smaller and smaller troubles me too. With 5.25in floppies, one scratch on the disk, and, maybe a few kilobytes gone. With 50 Terabytes/inch^2, all the literary work of all ages is gone. How easy would it be to salvage one of these disks?
Maybe NASA had a read error and thinks that CIA, FBI and NSA think that NASA should do it. On a related note, can mind-R and mind-RW technology be far behind mind reading?
Yes, Viper's the middle path - my editor of choice. Sadly, emacs sux bigtime at regexps.
I'd also like a VIMper (with a keyboard visual mode).