Yes, why would we recognize the birth of one of the largest and most influential technology companies -- a company that largely defined how personal computer would run. Even if you don't like their products or practices, Microsoft is a huge part of personal computing history.
It will work. The options are 1) spend $10 on Amazon to get a bound copy in the mail, 2) download a copy online and spend $10 printing it at home before stapling it together, and 3) go the Ann Arbor and maybe get access to the only remaining copy of the book at be forced to read it under supervision in a clean room.
Yes, who would build recharge stations that are expensive and potentially dangerous. It isn't like people have made a fortune from storing volatile fuel in giant tanks where any person with a pulse can dispense it.
Ok, you realize they acknowledge this? They say the only reason they can do the recharge is because they have MIT's infrastructure. The idea is that you normally recharge at home overnight, but there could be charging stations (like gas stations) in case you need to drive a long distance.
Why be for it? Well, it is clean and safe. It works. It produces lots of energy from resources that can be mined in areas not under the control of crazy religious regimes that hate the USA.
Or, someone breaks a window and walks out with your computer and external hard drive. Having a full backup off site makes recovering from a burglary slightly less awful.
I use Time Machine + 2 external drives for my laptop. One drive is in my lab at school, the other drive is at home. It gets synced to both regularly and I have an offsite solution in case one burns down or gets stolen. If you have a desktop you could always swap external drives once a week and keep one at the office or other remote place. If you were more paranoid you could leave one in a safe deposit box as well -- a 1TB external drive is all of $100 now.
Even if they don't make money it is cheap advertising. A weekend of setting up the track and $100 to register is cheap, and it will likely result in some sales and better recognition. Most independent artists suffer from a lack of visibility -- it is hard to sell records if no one has heard of you. This might help them out in that area a little bit.
Why can't we have both? Specify fonts at the browser level and allow site-specific fonts to be over ridden. That way people can see what the designer intended, but if they don't like it they can force their own settings.
Yes, ultimately it is about the content, but that doesn't mean presentation isn't important. If you were to take the same document, but render it in Word and LaTeX you would probably see a huge difference. The LaTeX version just looks better and is easier on the eyes. If it weren't important, we would still be using fixed width fonts and 80 character wide pages -- the content is the same.
Find me a GPS that gives that level of precision inside a shopping mall. GPS needs to see the sky, large buildings have this inconvenient thing called a roof.
But is the AAAS a representative sample of scientists? Obviously it isn't representative of the general population, but that doesn't matter. If it has a liberal bias, but that bias exists throughout the scientific community then it isn't a problem. It is a comparison of scientists and non-scientists, so as long as the selected populations are representative of themselves then it is a valid sample.
GPS can generally tell you were you are, but only up to a point. Are you in the coffee shop, bathroom, or conference room in that giant building located at 455 N. Example?
And I average $1200 for gas and electric combined for a one bedroom apartment. Of course these numbers are meaningless to compare to the author's without knowing more about his home. My place is in Chicago and needs lots of heat in the winter, and lots of AC in the summer. If it were in a continuously mild climate it would be way cheaper -- so we can't compare raw numbers unless you know the size, location, fuel prices, levels of sunlight, how the house was built, the temperature they heat/cool to, etc.
Remember: Degree != Job Title. In the USA, if you have "Professor" in your title at a university you are a professor. Lecturer is a different title. Titles in others countries are irrelevant when talking about the USA.
Also, you do not need to have a formal degree in a field to be an expert in a field.
High school students aren't proving Kepler's conjecture; they are learning how to take a derivative of a polynomial and factor an expression. Sure, all subjects continually change, but many remain perfectly stagnant at the level we are talking. Even graduate level maths change very little from edition to edition.
Various social studies courses are about the only ones that need semi-frequent updates. New wars, new countries, new politics, etc. Of course you could always keep the books that cover ancient, old Eueopean, American revolution, pre-WW2, WW2-2000, etc. books and slowly add new texts as they are needed.
Of course the "right" tool is always context-dependent. If I were a grad student already familiar with that CAS system and needed to process a dozen images for a project I know which language I would chose: the CAS. If it takes me 5 minutes to write it in CAS and half an hour to process the images I'm out 35 minutes of my time. Say it only took me 30 minutes to write the C code and seconds to do the processing. I would still go with the CAS because I can go grab a coffee while the processing happens and I don't have to fight with C.
If I had thousands of images to work with I would take the time to learn a faster executing language.
Also imagine that maybe I don't _have_ to make this program, but I have an idea that I think could give interesting results. I'm much more likely to go ahead and write the code if it is fast and easy to do so. Maybe the implementation isn't the fastest, but I can see if it does something interesting. I could always go back and implement it in C if I found it really useful. I may just brush off the idea all together if it meant a long, painful coding process.
I think "good enough" will apply more to a price-point than spec-point. A $300 desktop will do what 95% of people need for several years. As time goes on specs will likely improve, but a satisfactory experience can still be had for $300. It is hard to compete at the high end when even the cheapest machine does everything needed.
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Yes, why would we recognize the birth of one of the largest and most influential technology companies -- a company that largely defined how personal computer would run. Even if you don't like their products or practices, Microsoft is a huge part of personal computing history.
It will work. The options are 1) spend $10 on Amazon to get a bound copy in the mail, 2) download a copy online and spend $10 printing it at home before stapling it together, and 3) go the Ann Arbor and maybe get access to the only remaining copy of the book at be forced to read it under supervision in a clean room.
I know which one I would choose.
Yes, who would build recharge stations that are expensive and potentially dangerous. It isn't like people have made a fortune from storing volatile fuel in giant tanks where any person with a pulse can dispense it.
Ok, you realize they acknowledge this? They say the only reason they can do the recharge is because they have MIT's infrastructure. The idea is that you normally recharge at home overnight, but there could be charging stations (like gas stations) in case you need to drive a long distance.
Why be for it? Well, it is clean and safe. It works. It produces lots of energy from resources that can be mined in areas not under the control of crazy religious regimes that hate the USA.
Or, someone breaks a window and walks out with your computer and external hard drive. Having a full backup off site makes recovering from a burglary slightly less awful.
I use Time Machine + 2 external drives for my laptop. One drive is in my lab at school, the other drive is at home. It gets synced to both regularly and I have an offsite solution in case one burns down or gets stolen. If you have a desktop you could always swap external drives once a week and keep one at the office or other remote place. If you were more paranoid you could leave one in a safe deposit box as well -- a 1TB external drive is all of $100 now.
Even if they don't make money it is cheap advertising. A weekend of setting up the track and $100 to register is cheap, and it will likely result in some sales and better recognition. Most independent artists suffer from a lack of visibility -- it is hard to sell records if no one has heard of you. This might help them out in that area a little bit.
So the extra 500ms for a one-time download of a font that gets cached and reused repeatedly is going to ruin my browsing experience?
Why can't we have both? Specify fonts at the browser level and allow site-specific fonts to be over ridden. That way people can see what the designer intended, but if they don't like it they can force their own settings.
Yes, ultimately it is about the content, but that doesn't mean presentation isn't important. If you were to take the same document, but render it in Word and LaTeX you would probably see a huge difference. The LaTeX version just looks better and is easier on the eyes. If it weren't important, we would still be using fixed width fonts and 80 character wide pages -- the content is the same.
But of course none of this matters if you can't get a lock on multiple satellites, which is case when inside large buildings.
Find me a GPS that gives that level of precision inside a shopping mall. GPS needs to see the sky, large buildings have this inconvenient thing called a roof.
But is the AAAS a representative sample of scientists? Obviously it isn't representative of the general population, but that doesn't matter. If it has a liberal bias, but that bias exists throughout the scientific community then it isn't a problem. It is a comparison of scientists and non-scientists, so as long as the selected populations are representative of themselves then it is a valid sample.
GPS can generally tell you were you are, but only up to a point. Are you in the coffee shop, bathroom, or conference room in that giant building located at 455 N. Example?
And I average $1200 for gas and electric combined for a one bedroom apartment. Of course these numbers are meaningless to compare to the author's without knowing more about his home. My place is in Chicago and needs lots of heat in the winter, and lots of AC in the summer. If it were in a continuously mild climate it would be way cheaper -- so we can't compare raw numbers unless you know the size, location, fuel prices, levels of sunlight, how the house was built, the temperature they heat/cool to, etc.
Remember: Degree != Job Title. In the USA, if you have "Professor" in your title at a university you are a professor. Lecturer is a different title. Titles in others countries are irrelevant when talking about the USA.
Also, you do not need to have a formal degree in a field to be an expert in a field.
I think that an understanding of math/CS is important for general education, but I don't necessarily think calculus is the most useful direction.
High school students aren't proving Kepler's conjecture; they are learning how to take a derivative of a polynomial and factor an expression. Sure, all subjects continually change, but many remain perfectly stagnant at the level we are talking. Even graduate level maths change very little from edition to edition.
Various social studies courses are about the only ones that need semi-frequent updates. New wars, new countries, new politics, etc. Of course you could always keep the books that cover ancient, old Eueopean, American revolution, pre-WW2, WW2-2000, etc. books and slowly add new texts as they are needed.
I still think DNSCurve would have made more sense, http://dnscurve.org/dnssec.html
Of course the "right" tool is always context-dependent. If I were a grad student already familiar with that CAS system and needed to process a dozen images for a project I know which language I would chose: the CAS. If it takes me 5 minutes to write it in CAS and half an hour to process the images I'm out 35 minutes of my time. Say it only took me 30 minutes to write the C code and seconds to do the processing. I would still go with the CAS because I can go grab a coffee while the processing happens and I don't have to fight with C.
If I had thousands of images to work with I would take the time to learn a faster executing language.
Also imagine that maybe I don't _have_ to make this program, but I have an idea that I think could give interesting results. I'm much more likely to go ahead and write the code if it is fast and easy to do so. Maybe the implementation isn't the fastest, but I can see if it does something interesting. I could always go back and implement it in C if I found it really useful. I may just brush off the idea all together if it meant a long, painful coding process.
I think "good enough" will apply more to a price-point than spec-point. A $300 desktop will do what 95% of people need for several years. As time goes on specs will likely improve, but a satisfactory experience can still be had for $300. It is hard to compete at the high end when even the cheapest machine does everything needed.
Knowing some English profs and TAs, It doesn't work well.
If in 5 years you want 10GbE you upgrade then. You could probably re-wire for something that supports 1TbE and spend less than wiring for 10GbE now.
How is it difficult to add music/video to iTunes? I just take a folder and drag it to iTunes -- that's it.