The e-paper systems that I've seen involve electrostaticly charged black balls in a white solution. When you charge a plate on one side of the cell, the balls move to that side and stick there, turning the cell black.
Really, interactive e-ink isn't that technologicaly different from normal e-paper. You just need a pressure sensitive coating that generates a charge (like, say, piezoelectric crystals) and a button to erase it. Then, you just need some extra circuitry to save the state somewhere. Read it off like ferite core memory and save the charges somewhere when the user flips pages.
Patterns don't need to repeat. We have trig functions that do, but if you give them a little bias, they follow a line instead of an axis. Surely no one denies that y(x)=x+Sin(x) is a pattern, and yet, it doesn't repeat.
So, how does the BBP formula not show a pattern? Without one, the formula wouldn't work, because it can calculate the nth digit without calculating any of the previous digits.
This "new" feature isn't very new at all. I've been downloading news, weather, and to-do lists into my iPod for months now. I just save them as contacts.
Well, MacWhispers has been reporting about a large white plastic enclosure with a huge opening for one face. Lets hope that it's a Newton-ish thing.
Regardless, that issue is just me-specific. I thought that that was clear from the way I said it.
How, exactly, do you know that "she" isn't some 80-year-old man (not saying that she is, just what if)? I mean, isn't that one of the wonders of the Internet? Almost total anonymity.
How many women are going to know that you can do origami without knowing you beforehand? It's not like anyone walks around with some folded paper visible on his person.
As far as I know, I was the only person in my entire high school that did origami. I would do it during class sometimes. At first, my teachers would yell at me for not paying attention, but when I could recite the past five minutes of lecture from memory, they started to realize that it doesn't take that much concentration to fold paper.
Why was your inorganic chem class even assigning problems like that? Most interesting symetries that I've found are organic. Stuff like Hemoglobin. The structure of that molecule just facinates me.
Well, some of us that do origami don't necessarily have great fingers. For instance, I have a surgeon's fingers (not literally, of course), but I tend to grow my fingernails inordinately long. This is actually helpful in certain ways. It makes creasing the paper much easier. They also let me easily flatten foil Reese's wrappers and make some really cool models out of real metal as opposed to metallic paper.
However, I would imagine that my fingernails would get in the way of almost anything you could be thinking of.
On a completely unrelated note, good origami paper is almost impossible to find here in Dallas. The KERA Store Of Knowledge over in Fort Worth used to sell it, but then they went out of business.
Well, they are wrong. There IS a pattern to it. Just not in decimal. There is a formula that you can use to get any digit of the hexidecimal expansion of Pi without calculating the previous digits. This has been known for years.
Well, in your post, you made it sound like you weren't sure. That whole "Or am I mistaken?" must have thrown me off. Perhaps you were wondering about resuming from MP3s. Just trying (and aparently, failing miserably) to be helpful.
Anyway, I have some files that are way over an hour. Some lectures that I have are over an hour and a half. I scrub through them with no problem. I can usually hit the spot that I'm aiming for within two seconds.
I've dropped my iPod from about 4 feet up onto solid concrete and it still _looks_ fine, let alone operates fine. There are a few surface scratches and dings, but the case has held up much better than I thought it would.
You really get what you pay for with the iPod. However, lately, I've been hearing more and more about nasty problems with the Second Generation 10 GB iPods (with the solid-state wheel). Mine is still perfect.
I still haven't found a portable player that sounds as good as the iPod. It's headphones are great and the amplifier sounds smooth.
Who said that it ran Windows xp? If it's a real workstation (as in heavy duty graphics), I would be quite surprised if it ran Windows. All of the serious graphics workstations that I've ever seen are either SGIs or ran some *NIX. Where I used to work, we had a different name for workstations running Windows. Electronic typewriters.
Now, as far as I can tell, these Smart Displays (I use quotes because they are really pretty dumb) use technology that only interfaces with Windows. However, perhaps my post's grandparent didn't know that. It could be that he thought that they would work with his flavor of *NIX.
What would be really funny is if he got a dirt-cheap computer, slapped Windows xp on it, and set the Smart Display up to use that computer which was them connected through VNC or some such to his workstation. Of course, that would be about as speedy as molasses in January.
You know full well what I meant. Copies of MP3s not for personal use are illegal.
As for comparing it to child porn, that was only an example. No one would try to blame Google for that. However, the RIAA member companies have been claiming that these students made a tool without substantial non-infringing use. That is essentially blaming the search engine for the content.
Technicaly, you are right. Copies of MP3s are not illegal. Making copies of them for anything other than personal use is illegal. However, I think that you know what I meant.
I said that the RIAA member companies were stealing their money, not their music. Per the contract, the company is owed music. Once the artists give it to the company, they get paid. It's not like the company is taking it. You can't force someone to sing or play in a band. However, you can shortchange them, which is stealing money.
Really, there is mostly semantic difference between the two, but according to the law, it's the money that it being stolen.
As for the contracts not being paid properly, again, that's the artist's problem.
Well, it turns out that TinoMNYY24 (the original poster for this sub-thread) was talking about them stealing music from other artists. That is how I interpreted it.
Lastly, please use either Plain Old Text mode or br tags in the future. Your post is a bit hard to read.
It's the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why? Why? Because millions of people all over the world can work together on the Web, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You don't need flying cars. But you will need a different kind of software.
Well, child porn and copies of MP3s are both illegal under federal law. IRC servers are not. Therefore, they are related in that sense.
IRC requires you to actively send the files, whereas this search engine is just that. A search engine that finds files on people's open shares. Meanwhile, Google finds information on people's public websites.
Really, a more applicable analogy would be "if people use Google to find child porn, is it Google's fault?"
In 2000, the RIAA claimed that sales dropped 4.1%. Meanwhile, they cut their album inventory by about 25%. They are making more money per release in the past three years than in the history of CDs.
How, exactly, have the RIAA stolen music? If they have, then that's quite interesting, but if you're just talking about paying the artists next-to-nothing, then that's not stealing. The artists signed the contracts. If they didn't hire all sorts of lawyers to go over them and make sure that there weren't loopholes, then that's their problem.
I actually met a contract lawyer once. He said that out of all of the recording industry contracts that he had reviewed, not one had been payed correctly. The artists were almost always owed significantly more than they had been payed.
So go request the Aphex Twin music that you want to be there. Personally, I don't like his stuff that much, but I can still submit requests for it. I'm only about 15 minutes from an Apple Store.
I actually plan to go there eventually and request my favorite artists like Nick Drake, Tom Lehrer, Dada, The Police, Sting, and Matthew Good. Of course, I don't know if those are already in Apple's collection, but if they aren't, I'll request them.
Most of Apple's pricing is pretty easy to understand.
$.99 per song OR $9.99 per album Whichever is less.
Now, due to some licensing issues, a few albums don't follow that pricing scheme.
What I really wonder is if they keep track of the songs from an album that you've bought and subtract those from its cost. For instance, if I buy Dream On and Shine from Depeche Mode's Exciter, does that lower the album's price any? It should go down $1.98.
Even if you aren't a label, you can request your favorite bands. Quickly, everyone start requesting your favorite Indy groups! Apple will probably pick them up if enough people ask.
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The e-paper systems that I've seen involve electrostaticly charged black balls in a white solution. When you charge a plate on one side of the cell, the balls move to that side and stick there, turning the cell black.
Really, interactive e-ink isn't that technologicaly different from normal e-paper. You just need a pressure sensitive coating that generates a charge (like, say, piezoelectric crystals) and a button to erase it. Then, you just need some extra circuitry to save the state somewhere. Read it off like ferite core memory and save the charges somewhere when the user flips pages.
If a formula isn't a pattern, then what is?
Patterns don't need to repeat. We have trig functions that do, but if you give them a little bias, they follow a line instead of an axis. Surely no one denies that y(x)=x+Sin(x) is a pattern, and yet, it doesn't repeat.
So, how does the BBP formula not show a pattern? Without one, the formula wouldn't work, because it can calculate the nth digit without calculating any of the previous digits.
This "new" feature isn't very new at all. I've been downloading news, weather, and to-do lists into my iPod for months now. I just save them as contacts.
Well, MacWhispers has been reporting about a large white plastic enclosure with a huge opening for one face. Lets hope that it's a Newton-ish thing.
Perhaps I'm too truthful.
Regardless, that issue is just me-specific. I thought that that was clear from the way I said it.
How, exactly, do you know that "she" isn't some 80-year-old man (not saying that she is, just what if)? I mean, isn't that one of the wonders of the Internet? Almost total anonymity.
How many women are going to know that you can do origami without knowing you beforehand? It's not like anyone walks around with some folded paper visible on his person.
As far as I know, I was the only person in my entire high school that did origami. I would do it during class sometimes. At first, my teachers would yell at me for not paying attention, but when I could recite the past five minutes of lecture from memory, they started to realize that it doesn't take that much concentration to fold paper.
It never got me any dates.
Well, there is that.
Why was your inorganic chem class even assigning problems like that? Most interesting symetries that I've found are organic. Stuff like Hemoglobin. The structure of that molecule just facinates me.
http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/articles/Miracul ous.pdf
It's a PDF (obviously), but that's the only good way I've found to express the formula.
Well, not all of Escher's stuff is symmetric. Try the one of the sphere in his hand. It has very little symmetry at all.
Of course, then you try to do it with the one with the Sausage Rolls going up and down the stairs.
Really, I quite like Escher's art. It's right up there with Salvador Dali on my scale of great art.
Ha, ha, ha. Good one. I can do all three quite well and still everyone hates me.
Maybe I'm just anti-social.
Well, some of us that do origami don't necessarily have great fingers. For instance, I have a surgeon's fingers (not literally, of course), but I tend to grow my fingernails inordinately long. This is actually helpful in certain ways. It makes creasing the paper much easier. They also let me easily flatten foil Reese's wrappers and make some really cool models out of real metal as opposed to metallic paper.
However, I would imagine that my fingernails would get in the way of almost anything you could be thinking of.
On a completely unrelated note, good origami paper is almost impossible to find here in Dallas. The KERA Store Of Knowledge over in Fort Worth used to sell it, but then they went out of business.
Well, they are wrong. There IS a pattern to it. Just not in decimal. There is a formula that you can use to get any digit of the hexidecimal expansion of Pi without calculating the previous digits. This has been known for years.
Well, in your post, you made it sound like you weren't sure. That whole "Or am I mistaken?" must have thrown me off. Perhaps you were wondering about resuming from MP3s. Just trying (and aparently, failing miserably) to be helpful.
Anyway, I have some files that are way over an hour. Some lectures that I have are over an hour and a half. I scrub through them with no problem. I can usually hit the spot that I'm aiming for within two seconds.
I've dropped my iPod from about 4 feet up onto solid concrete and it still _looks_ fine, let alone operates fine. There are a few surface scratches and dings, but the case has held up much better than I thought it would.
You really get what you pay for with the iPod. However, lately, I've been hearing more and more about nasty problems with the Second Generation 10 GB iPods (with the solid-state wheel). Mine is still perfect.
I still haven't found a portable player that sounds as good as the iPod. It's headphones are great and the amplifier sounds smooth.
All of the iPods that can play Audible files can resume from where you stopped them.
Of course, for MP3s and such, you can always scrub to roughly where you left off and listen from there.
Who said that it ran Windows xp? If it's a real workstation (as in heavy duty graphics), I would be quite surprised if it ran Windows. All of the serious graphics workstations that I've ever seen are either SGIs or ran some *NIX. Where I used to work, we had a different name for workstations running Windows. Electronic typewriters.
Now, as far as I can tell, these Smart Displays (I use quotes because they are really pretty dumb) use technology that only interfaces with Windows. However, perhaps my post's grandparent didn't know that. It could be that he thought that they would work with his flavor of *NIX.
What would be really funny is if he got a dirt-cheap computer, slapped Windows xp on it, and set the Smart Display up to use that computer which was them connected through VNC or some such to his workstation. Of course, that would be about as speedy as molasses in January.
You know full well what I meant. Copies of MP3s not for personal use are illegal.
As for comparing it to child porn, that was only an example. No one would try to blame Google for that. However, the RIAA member companies have been claiming that these students made a tool without substantial non-infringing use. That is essentially blaming the search engine for the content.
Technicaly, you are right. Copies of MP3s are not illegal. Making copies of them for anything other than personal use is illegal. However, I think that you know what I meant.
I said that the RIAA member companies were stealing their money, not their music. Per the contract, the company is owed music. Once the artists give it to the company, they get paid. It's not like the company is taking it. You can't force someone to sing or play in a band. However, you can shortchange them, which is stealing money.
Really, there is mostly semantic difference between the two, but according to the law, it's the money that it being stolen.
As for the contracts not being paid properly, again, that's the artist's problem.
Well, it turns out that TinoMNYY24 (the original poster for this sub-thread) was talking about them stealing music from other artists. That is how I interpreted it.
Lastly, please use either Plain Old Text mode or br tags in the future. Your post is a bit hard to read.
It's the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying cars. Why? Why? Why? Because millions of people all over the world can work together on the Web, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You don't need flying cars. But you will need a different kind of software.
Well, child porn and copies of MP3s are both illegal under federal law. IRC servers are not. Therefore, they are related in that sense.
IRC requires you to actively send the files, whereas this search engine is just that. A search engine that finds files on people's open shares. Meanwhile, Google finds information on people's public websites.
Really, a more applicable analogy would be "if people use Google to find child porn, is it Google's fault?"
In 2000, the RIAA claimed that sales dropped 4.1%. Meanwhile, they cut their album inventory by about 25%. They are making more money per release in the past three years than in the history of CDs.
How, exactly, have the RIAA stolen music? If they have, then that's quite interesting, but if you're just talking about paying the artists next-to-nothing, then that's not stealing. The artists signed the contracts. If they didn't hire all sorts of lawyers to go over them and make sure that there weren't loopholes, then that's their problem.
I actually met a contract lawyer once. He said that out of all of the recording industry contracts that he had reviewed, not one had been payed correctly. The artists were almost always owed significantly more than they had been payed.
So go request the Aphex Twin music that you want to be there. Personally, I don't like his stuff that much, but I can still submit requests for it. I'm only about 15 minutes from an Apple Store.
I actually plan to go there eventually and request my favorite artists like Nick Drake, Tom Lehrer, Dada, The Police, Sting, and Matthew Good. Of course, I don't know if those are already in Apple's collection, but if they aren't, I'll request them.
Go to an Apple store and submit about 500 requests for your favorite bands. Get enough people to do it and Apple will get their music.
Most of Apple's pricing is pretty easy to understand.
$.99 per song OR
$9.99 per album
Whichever is less.
Now, due to some licensing issues, a few albums don't follow that pricing scheme.
What I really wonder is if they keep track of the songs from an album that you've bought and subtract those from its cost. For instance, if I buy Dream On and Shine from Depeche Mode's Exciter, does that lower the album's price any? It should go down $1.98.
Even if you aren't a label, you can request your favorite bands. Quickly, everyone start requesting your favorite Indy groups! Apple will probably pick them up if enough people ask.
Um, by using two processors?
Yes, it does.
The Power4 (upon which the PPC 970 is based) IS dual processors. Look at the specs some time. It's essentially two processors on a single die.
The 970 does not use the dual core single die idea, but it still clusters rather well. IIRC, there can be up to 64 of them per motherboard.