Actually, I screwed up with the model number. The one I have is the T6, which Torgoen no longer lists, but which appears still to be available from dealers.
The Torgoen T01 sports a slide rule bezel. These aviator-style watches are like a poor man's Breitling, with battery-powered Swiss movements assembled into their housings in China. I've had mine for over six years, and I love it. The hands and numerals are large with phosphorescence that remains strong throughout the night. There's also a separate hand that reads in 24-hour time and which can be set to another time zone -- handy if you conduct overseas business.
I agree. I'm not sure it's even hill climbing in a follow-the-gradient sense, since a gradient is never computed. It's more of an optimized random walk. The overall performance would surely improve if a true, Holland-inspired GA involving both mutation and crossover on a large population were employed.
Another concern is the size of the polygons. If they are allowed to increase in complexity (i.e. by adding vertices), it's uncertain what the program really demonstrates. It'd be like starting with an amoeba and producing a chimpanzie by adding codons to its genome one-by-one and rewarding matches to the known chimpanzie DNA sequence. I'd have been more impressed if the "genotype" had been constrained to 250 triangles, say, and not allowed to increase in complexity along the way.
One feature of this demonstration does stand out as inspired, however: the use of semitransparency in the polygons. A couple of the intermediate renditions have a Cubist flavor to them in the style of Picasso or Gris. This I find to be more intriguing than the final result!
To eliminate the lines and make flying so much more pleasant, I propose stackable people-pods, into which anaesthetized passengers can be stowed and loaded into the cargo hold. There would be no perceptable delays, and the flights would seem to pass in no time. In addition, turbulence would go unnoticed and there would be no surly flight attendants to contend with. Moreover, the cost of tickets would be much less, since the airlines would have no onboard passenger service (not that they have all that much now).
Sung to the tune of "As Time Goes By":
You must remember this:
A bit is just a bit,
A byte is just a byte.
The fundamental things apply,
As packets go by.
Trying to identify bits for their "content" is a little like trying to tell air molecules apart. Congress is now on the same slippery slope as the Bells, who want to charge extra for "premium" content.
Or do they they think the taxes can be collected by the VOIP companies themselves? But what if my VOIP provider is in Outer Elbonia? They have no infrastructure in my state, or any nexus, for that matter. If I pay my phone bill with a credit card or, better yet, by cash deposit on my next trip there, where's the mechanism for enforcement?
Again, Congresspeople, just because something scratches an itch and sounds "fair" doesn't mean it's even a tiny bit workable.
The M.Y.O.B Accounting software I use in my business has had this feature for years. When reconciling your checking account, for example, just click on a cleared check and drag across all the others in sequence that have also cleared, and they all get checked.
After the census results are out, and for one year thereafter, allow any citizen of the state to propose a redistricting scheme. The rules are as follows:
1. The populations within the various districts have to be within 1% of each other. 2. The scheme with the smallest sum of district perimeters gets chosen.
Such a scheme would have been difficult to put in place when the Constitution was written. But now, with rapid communication and GIS software, it's not only objective and fair, but should be rather easy to implement.
I have a friend who was in the Air Force. He said there was a saying among officers that went, "If you ain't a pilot, you ain't $#|+." Now, in programming, replace "pilot" with "assembly programmer".
It's about uniformity and consistency. And until the individual, out-of-control egos of Linux app developers are neutralized to conform to strict UI standards, Linux will never have legs in the mass marketplace.
The bigger issue of kids not playing outdoors and interacting with the real world is that they are developing no appreciation for their natural environment. How can we expect children who don't value the wonders of the great outdoors to be good envrionmental stewards in adulthood? I fear more for the natural world under their future care than from any spoliations meted out by the Bush administration.
Meat-based robots (a.k.a. humans) are ill-suited for duty on remote worlds. They're incredibly fragile, hyper-sensitive to cosmic rays, require hugely expensive support systems, consume energy constantly — even while idle — and generate noxious waste products. Not only that, they are difficult to program, and memory dumps are unreliable at best. Interaction among multiple units on long missions can be a challenge as well, sometimes leading to erratic and even harmful behavior. But the worst part is, they can't simply be left at their destinations when their missions are complete: they have to be brought back to Earth — at tremendous expense.
By the time we are ready to send more of these units to the Moon and beyond, their silicon-and-metal counterparts will have advanced to such a point as to render them obsolete for such missions. It seems to me a much better use of our national resources to advance the cause of our metallic, compliant brethren, develop their capabilities to the fullest, and save a ton of cash in the process. By pushing their new Meat In Space program, our government is once again pandering to jingoistic sentimentailty rather than the needs of hard science.
From the article: "The chief impulse behind this law enforcement gizmo fetish is laziness, and it's a bad trend: The more policemen we have fiddling with computer equipment, the fewer we have doing proper legwork."
This really is the crux of the matter. Good police work is difficult. In a democracy with human rights protections, it's supposed to be difficult, dammit!
So why erect any more barriers than you have to? If students associate vi or emacs with programming, they'll end up hating programming. Forget "old school". It's the 21st century, and IDEs make programming fun.
Seriously. This is one instance where it's our government's business to step in and say, "Whoa!" Google won't toe the line if MSN and Yahoo! don't, and vice-versa. It's simply unwise from a competitive standpoint. But if Congress passes a law forbidding such censorship by an American company, the playing field will be level again -- but on a higher plane. Will they? Good question. China holds billions in U.S. notes and bonds. Can we, as a nation, afford to piss off such an indispensible creditor? I doubt that Congress has the spine for it, lofty principle or no.
I've always considered procrastination to be a virtue. If you start too soon on a project/job/chore, you'll likely spend way too much time finishing it. Waiting until the last minute forces you to strip the dreaded work to its essentials and eliminate the fluff. Plus, you minimize the opportunity for time-sucking avoidance behavior (which the author incorrectly labels as "type B procrastination").
In Britain, entire neighbourhoods share one large secondary power transformer. They can do this because the voltage delivered to the home is twice what it is here in the U.S., so the I^2R losses over the longer service distances are not so great. In such cases, neighbourhood power grids are a reasonable endeavour.
But in the States, a pole-mounted transformer may serve only two or threee homes. Here, the technical issues resulting from bridging multiple transformers might make the prospect of a neighborhood-wide grid less economically feasible.
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The Senseg tactile display uses electrostatics to create the sensation of texture on a touchscreen.
Actually, I screwed up with the model number. The one I have is the T6, which Torgoen no longer lists, but which appears still to be available from dealers.
The Torgoen T01 sports a slide rule bezel. These aviator-style watches are like a poor man's Breitling, with battery-powered Swiss movements assembled into their housings in China. I've had mine for over six years, and I love it. The hands and numerals are large with phosphorescence that remains strong throughout the night. There's also a separate hand that reads in 24-hour time and which can be set to another time zone -- handy if you conduct overseas business.
I agree. I'm not sure it's even hill climbing in a follow-the-gradient sense, since a gradient is never computed. It's more of an optimized random walk. The overall performance would surely improve if a true, Holland-inspired GA involving both mutation and crossover on a large population were employed.
Another concern is the size of the polygons. If they are allowed to increase in complexity (i.e. by adding vertices), it's uncertain what the program really demonstrates. It'd be like starting with an amoeba and producing a chimpanzie by adding codons to its genome one-by-one and rewarding matches to the known chimpanzie DNA sequence. I'd have been more impressed if the "genotype" had been constrained to 250 triangles, say, and not allowed to increase in complexity along the way.
One feature of this demonstration does stand out as inspired, however: the use of semitransparency in the polygons. A couple of the intermediate renditions have a Cubist flavor to them in the style of Picasso or Gris. This I find to be more intriguing than the final result!
With the lead content, they're not RoHS-compliant.
(Okay, okay, I just looked it up: "sublimate" can also be used with ice, but "sublime" is preferred.)
At least that's what I thought when I read the headline.
To eliminate the lines and make flying so much more pleasant, I propose stackable people-pods, into which anaesthetized passengers can be stowed and loaded into the cargo hold. There would be no perceptable delays, and the flights would seem to pass in no time. In addition, turbulence would go unnoticed and there would be no surly flight attendants to contend with. Moreover, the cost of tickets would be much less, since the airlines would have no onboard passenger service (not that they have all that much now).
A bit is just a bit,
A byte is just a byte.
The fundamental things apply,
As packets go by.
Trying to identify bits for their "content" is a little like trying to tell air molecules apart. Congress is now on the same slippery slope as the Bells, who want to charge extra for "premium" content.
Or do they they think the taxes can be collected by the VOIP companies themselves? But what if my VOIP provider is in Outer Elbonia? They have no infrastructure in my state, or any nexus, for that matter. If I pay my phone bill with a credit card or, better yet, by cash deposit on my next trip there, where's the mechanism for enforcement?
Again, Congresspeople, just because something scratches an itch and sounds "fair" doesn't mean it's even a tiny bit workable.
The M.Y.O.B Accounting software I use in my business has had this feature for years. When reconciling your checking account, for example, just click on a cleared check and drag across all the others in sequence that have also cleared, and they all get checked.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
After the census results are out, and for one year thereafter, allow any citizen of the state to propose a redistricting scheme. The rules are as follows:
1. The populations within the various districts have to be within 1% of each other.
2. The scheme with the smallest sum of district perimeters gets chosen.
Such a scheme would have been difficult to put in place when the Constitution was written. But now, with rapid communication and GIS software, it's not only objective and fair, but should be rather easy to implement.
I have a friend who was in the Air Force. He said there was a saying among officers that went, "If you ain't a pilot, you ain't $#|+." Now, in programming, replace "pilot" with "assembly programmer".
It's about uniformity and consistency. And until the individual, out-of-control egos of Linux app developers are neutralized to conform to strict UI standards, Linux will never have legs in the mass marketplace.
The bigger issue of kids not playing outdoors and interacting with the real world is that they are developing no appreciation for their natural environment. How can we expect children who don't value the wonders of the great outdoors to be good envrionmental stewards in adulthood? I fear more for the natural world under their future care than from any spoliations meted out by the Bush administration.
... that, sadly, Americans haven't evolved.
By the time we are ready to send more of these units to the Moon and beyond, their silicon-and-metal counterparts will have advanced to such a point as to render them obsolete for such missions. It seems to me a much better use of our national resources to advance the cause of our metallic, compliant brethren, develop their capabilities to the fullest, and save a ton of cash in the process. By pushing their new Meat In Space program, our government is once again pandering to jingoistic sentimentailty rather than the needs of hard science.
This really is the crux of the matter. Good police work is difficult. In a democracy with human rights protections, it's supposed to be difficult, dammit!
So why erect any more barriers than you have to? If students associate vi or emacs with programming, they'll end up hating programming. Forget "old school". It's the 21st century, and IDEs make programming fun.
Seriously. This is one instance where it's our government's business to step in and say, "Whoa!" Google won't toe the line if MSN and Yahoo! don't, and vice-versa. It's simply unwise from a competitive standpoint. But if Congress passes a law forbidding such censorship by an American company, the playing field will be level again -- but on a higher plane. Will they? Good question. China holds billions in U.S. notes and bonds. Can we, as a nation, afford to piss off such an indispensible creditor? I doubt that Congress has the spine for it, lofty principle or no.
I've always considered procrastination to be a virtue. If you start too soon on a project/job/chore, you'll likely spend way too much time finishing it. Waiting until the last minute forces you to strip the dreaded work to its essentials and eliminate the fluff. Plus, you minimize the opportunity for time-sucking avoidance behavior (which the author incorrectly labels as "type B procrastination").
The author's name is Marcel Gagné. He writes an excellent column in Linux Journal, as well.
Visit Parallax EFX. They now have a line of controllers made especially for Halloween special effects.
He writes well, uses good grammar, and knows how to spell. How could he possibly imagine himself in an engineering career?
But in the States, a pole-mounted transformer may serve only two or threee homes. Here, the technical issues resulting from bridging multiple transformers might make the prospect of a neighborhood-wide grid less economically feasible.
At least while we're standing on our roofs yelling into our cellphones, "Can you hear me now?", we can be enjoying the spectacular aurora borealis.