It occurred to me that perhaps the probes were slowing because their trajectories were too linear, trying to escape the solar system, while natural objects travel in orbits and join the dance of the system. Perhaps this acceleration discrimination is related to the organizational force which clearly exists, but which isn't fully explained by the traditional gravity theory. In other words, if you try to leave the dancefloor, someone pulls you back into the fray. This would explain phenomena on both a quantum and super-galactic scale.
If you ask me, we'd save a few forests if people just learn how to adjust brightness and contrast, and STOP BUYING CRAPPY MONITORS!
Also, stock your printing room with once-used paper! Print on both sides! Provide recycle bins! And by all means, encourage copying and pasting, and not printing images on webpages! The ink problem is just as bad as the paper problem.
A couple years ago my friends and I were getting progressively more hyper while drinking pots of hot chai, and we decided to invent a display that had the easy-reading qualities of paper, such as being solid-state, reflective rather than projective, and all-angle viewable. What we came up with was essentially a Magna-Doodle on speed. Little cells filled with an opaque background fluid would be polarized a certain degree and a certain density of metallic particles would be drawn to the top of the cell, showing up against the jelly medium. When I researched our idea on the net, I found that of course it had been thought up of a while ago by some famous inventor. We also thought there could be a color version, if only the proper RGB magnetic flecks existed...
I've seen e-Books and of course the Palm, but LCD is just too hard to read in comparison with good 'ol paper, so I wanted to know if anyone has seen a similar device in use anywhere, or knows of any companies developing such a device. I guess it would probably be Xerox, right?
I don't know what it's like at other universities, but at Stanford most engineering classes are completely televised and webized. Sometimes you have to physically hand in assignments, but a lot of courses have online submission. I've also participated in an experimental humanities course that integrated the web with readings, discussion, and homework. It really is the most convenient way to do it, and I don't see that much advantage in physical contact with professors since it's all pretty clinical anyway. I think online communication is more useful since it's already typed up and stored for you, and writing things out helps to crystallize your thoughts. For all of you who think online classes aren't here yet, you obviously haven't visited the Farm!
I think you have the right idea, do what you want to do, but depending on what school you attend, the CS degree might require a lot more esoteric applied math classes than you'd ever desire or need for teaching coding or applications. Go for the BCIS unless you want to brave the horrors of NP Complete.
I think computers and especially the internet are bringing about a revolution, a rennaissance of art and thought with an electronic brush. It's high time people start to see through the artificial barriers between disciplines and pursue whatever interests them, because that dynamic mixture is what drives innovation. Remember chaos theory? That came about simultaneously in such then-diverse fields as math, physics, and signal processing. No doubt computers will soon be integrated into all aspects of learning and working, and accelerate our development past being just dumb piles of meat. It's just another evolutionary step, just like we've all read in science fiction books. You just need to maintain a long-term, unlimited perspective on it.
If you don't see how writing code or producing theory is equivalent to engineering functional paradigmns then please step away from the compiler before you hurt anyone dependent on your output...
There are many of you who are trying to figure out a way to hook up one of these sexy babies to machines other than the G4. While I applaud your hacking sense, I have to say that this display is really only meant to be with a G3/G4, because the plastics match. I bet it would look really stupid with a beige rectangular box. That's why it makes sense for Apple to bundle it with their (really cool, even if you're jealous and won't admit it) G4.
The fact that neuroscientists are still using black boxes and power lines to represent the supposedly functional areas of the brain demonstrates a crude model of the indubitably sublime nature of mind. Both the methodology and theory seem primitive today; digital logic models are not really comparable to the subtle tides of thought and perception that really occur, and can hardly begin to address creativity or spirituality. I'm not considering implants while the scientists can't see the forest for the trees. Waiting for paradigm upgrade.
I think you're all jealous 'cuz we macheads have much cooler machines than you all. Nyah.
I have a G2 8600 300mhz 604e and it rips apart SETI data at 24 hrs/unit! I think G3s were for home and school users so I'm waiting for late/evolved G4 with superior multimedia/server OS. Meanwhile, I'm kicking your Pentium asses!
I especially liked the smoky, neutral color of the G4 because it will appeal to professionals and uber-geeks alike. The screen is awesome! Imagine ripping dvds for your own private home letterbox theatre...drooooll...
Apple makes high-quality hardware and software in general, though I've had a particularly nasty experience with a G2 PowerBook design whose disk rattle caused the adjacently touching memory to pop out! They are beginning to open-source, and there is a hell of a lot of good freeware/shareware/etc mac software available. Besides, the new OS will run Java, Windows, etc, and everything is getting standardized and distributed, so shouldn't we all just use machines that express our style instead of bickering over details?;)
Two years before I became a female Stanford CS major, I knew little about programming computers. Not until my mom got a PPP account (and configured our Mac's TCP/IP! I'm still proud of her..) did I begin to experiment with HTML, because I had to to express myself. Females learn programming because they have a project, not just for the sake of tinkering.
Anyway, I wrote a research paper for my high school senior project, Women in Computer Science, which has a bunch of internet background material references in the Research section. Enjoy.
Once upon a time, four years ago, I had never used a computer extensively. Then my family got me a cute, thin little desktop, the Mac Quadra 605 (no FPU) and it all began, and now I am working for my CS degree at Stanford. How did this happen? I had access to an easy-to-use computer and a 14.4 modem, and it could run Photoshop, SoundEdit, Director, BBEdit, POV-Ray, and Codewarrior just fine, thank you. At one point I upgraded my CPU to the FPU version, upgraded my RAM and VRAM, and that computer is still sitting around using the most modern operating system Apple offers (try doing that with a 4 yr old Windoze machine...) I was the only girl at my high school who was at all interested in coding, and I fought vigorously against their adoption of a new NT/Windoze network because I knew it would cost them time and money compared to Macs, which usually come fully loaded and are much easier to network than their bastard cousins. Now I have a PowerMac 8600 (300mhz with 128RAM) and 26 SETI@Home work units completed, with about 16hrs/unit (I forgot to turn off VM so it was about 26hrs/unit for awhile;) so don't you tell me that my machine is only good for word processing! I have a big, high-end monitor which I usually set to 800x600 because the font anti-aliasing in MacOS8.6 looks beautiful, and it more closely matches the size of my pressure-sensitive tablet. Flicker in this monitor is also negligible.
The point of all this jabber is that a total non-user of computers will use the consumer portable to the limit of its capabilities and there are plenty of sophisticated (freeware/shareware/hacked) applications out there to use on them, if only they go out exploring on the the internet like I did, and it appears they will be able to do that in the hottub with these iBooks. Then they will buy power-user machines.
This is it. I finally can't take it anymore. I have to defend Binks, DiCaprio, and all the other unjustly bashed beings who are unlucky enough not to appeal to 15-yr-old-pimply-hacker-types and their brethen. You see, Star Wars is a movie, which means that it has to appeal to a general audience, which most likely contains children, parents, and females, as well as genuine sci-fi freaks. There are a lot of really kick-ass sf books that, unfortunately, wouldn't appeal to a general audience, and consequently haven't been made into movies. I predict that sometime soon, we'll all be able to animate our favorite plots and characters and trade them online. Until then, well just shaddup and watch.
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It occurred to me that perhaps the probes were slowing because their trajectories were too linear, trying to escape the solar system, while natural objects travel in orbits and join the dance of the system. Perhaps this acceleration discrimination is related to the organizational force which clearly exists, but which isn't fully explained by the traditional gravity theory. In other words, if you try to leave the dancefloor, someone pulls you back into the fray. This would explain phenomena on both a quantum and super-galactic scale.
This makes me feel nauseous. Please just write to spec, people! Don't encourage the fragmentation. Web Standards Now!
If you ask me, we'd save a few forests if people just learn how to adjust brightness and contrast, and STOP BUYING CRAPPY MONITORS!
Also, stock your printing room with once-used paper! Print on both sides! Provide recycle bins! And by all means, encourage copying and pasting, and not printing images on webpages! The ink problem is just as bad as the paper problem.
A couple years ago my friends and I were getting progressively more hyper while drinking pots of hot chai, and we decided to invent a display that had the easy-reading qualities of paper, such as being solid-state, reflective rather than projective, and all-angle viewable. What we came up with was essentially a Magna-Doodle on speed. Little cells filled with an opaque background fluid would be polarized a certain degree and a certain density of metallic particles would be drawn to the top of the cell, showing up against the jelly medium. When I researched our idea on the net, I found that of course it had been thought up of a while ago by some famous inventor. We also thought there could be a color version, if only the proper RGB magnetic flecks existed...
I've seen e-Books and of course the Palm, but LCD is just too hard to read in comparison with good 'ol paper, so I wanted to know if anyone has seen a similar device in use anywhere, or knows of any companies developing such a device. I guess it would probably be Xerox, right?
I don't know what it's like at other universities, but at Stanford most engineering classes are completely televised and webized. Sometimes you have to physically hand in assignments, but a lot of courses have online submission. I've also participated in an experimental humanities course that integrated the web with readings, discussion, and homework. It really is the most convenient way to do it, and I don't see that much advantage in physical contact with professors since it's all pretty clinical anyway. I think online communication is more useful since it's already typed up and stored for you, and writing things out helps to crystallize your thoughts. For all of you who think online classes aren't here yet, you obviously haven't visited the Farm!
I think you have the right idea, do what you want to do, but depending on what school you attend, the CS degree might require a lot more esoteric applied math classes than you'd ever desire or need for teaching coding or applications. Go for the BCIS unless you want to brave the horrors of NP Complete.
I think computers and especially the internet are bringing about a revolution, a rennaissance of art and thought with an electronic brush. It's high time people start to see through the artificial barriers between disciplines and pursue whatever interests them, because that dynamic mixture is what drives innovation. Remember chaos theory? That came about simultaneously in such then-diverse fields as math, physics, and signal processing. No doubt computers will soon be integrated into all aspects of learning and working, and accelerate our development past being just dumb piles of meat. It's just another evolutionary step, just like we've all read in science fiction books. You just need to maintain a long-term, unlimited perspective on it.
If you don't see how writing code or producing theory is equivalent to engineering functional paradigmns then please step away from the compiler before you hurt anyone dependent on your output...
There are many of you who are trying to figure out a way to hook up one of these sexy babies to machines other than the G4. While I applaud your hacking sense, I have to say that this display is really only meant to be with a G3/G4, because the plastics match. I bet it would look really stupid with a beige rectangular box. That's why it makes sense for Apple to bundle it with their (really cool, even if you're jealous and won't admit it) G4.
The fact that neuroscientists are still using black boxes and power lines to represent the supposedly functional areas of the brain demonstrates a crude model of the indubitably sublime nature of mind. Both the methodology and theory seem primitive today; digital logic models are not really comparable to the subtle tides of thought and perception that really occur, and can hardly begin to address creativity or spirituality. I'm not considering implants while the scientists can't see the forest for the trees. Waiting for paradigm upgrade.
I think you're all jealous 'cuz we macheads have much cooler machines than you all. Nyah.
I have a G2 8600 300mhz 604e and it rips apart SETI data at 24 hrs/unit! I think G3s were for home and school users so I'm waiting for late/evolved G4 with superior multimedia/server OS. Meanwhile, I'm kicking your Pentium asses!
I especially liked the smoky, neutral color of the G4 because it will appeal to professionals and uber-geeks alike. The screen is awesome! Imagine ripping dvds for your own private home letterbox theatre...drooooll...
Apple makes high-quality hardware and software in general, though I've had a particularly nasty experience with a G2 PowerBook design whose disk rattle caused the adjacently touching memory to pop out! They are beginning to open-source, and there is a hell of a lot of good freeware/shareware/etc mac software available. Besides, the new OS will run Java, Windows, etc, and everything is getting standardized and distributed, so shouldn't we all just use machines that express our style instead of bickering over details? ;)
Two years before I became a female Stanford CS major, I knew little about programming computers. Not until my mom got a PPP account (and configured our Mac's TCP/IP! I'm still proud of her..) did I begin to experiment with HTML, because I had to to express myself. Females learn programming because they have a project, not just for the sake of tinkering.
Anyway, I wrote a research paper for my high school senior project, Women in Computer Science, which has a bunch of internet background material references in the Research section. Enjoy.
Once upon a time, four years ago, I had never used a computer extensively. Then my family got me a cute, thin little desktop, the Mac Quadra 605 (no FPU) and it all began, and now I am working for my CS degree at Stanford. How did this happen? I had access to an easy-to-use computer and a 14.4 modem, and it could run Photoshop, SoundEdit, Director, BBEdit, POV-Ray, and Codewarrior just fine, thank you. At one point I upgraded my CPU to the FPU version, upgraded my RAM and VRAM, and that computer is still sitting around using the most modern operating system Apple offers (try doing that with a 4 yr old Windoze machine...) I was the only girl at my high school who was at all interested in coding, and I fought vigorously against their adoption of a new NT/Windoze network because I knew it would cost them time and money compared to Macs, which usually come fully loaded and are much easier to network than their bastard cousins. Now I have a PowerMac 8600 (300mhz with 128RAM) and 26 SETI@Home work units completed, with about 16hrs/unit (I forgot to turn off VM so it was about 26hrs/unit for awhile ;) so don't you tell me that my machine is only good for word processing! I have a big, high-end monitor which I usually set to 800x600 because the font anti-aliasing in MacOS8.6 looks beautiful, and it more closely matches the size of my pressure-sensitive tablet. Flicker in this monitor is also negligible.
The point of all this jabber is that a total non-user of computers will use the consumer portable to the limit of its capabilities and there are plenty of sophisticated (freeware/shareware/hacked) applications out there to use on them, if only they go out exploring on the the internet like I did, and it appears they will be able to do that in the hottub with these iBooks. Then they will buy power-user machines.
This is it. I finally can't take it anymore. I have to defend Binks, DiCaprio, and all the other unjustly bashed beings who are unlucky enough not to appeal to 15-yr-old-pimply-hacker-types and their brethen. You see, Star Wars is a movie, which means that it has to appeal to a general audience, which most likely contains children, parents, and females, as well as genuine sci-fi freaks. There are a lot of really kick-ass sf books that, unfortunately, wouldn't appeal to a general audience, and consequently haven't been made into movies. I predict that sometime soon, we'll all be able to animate our favorite plots and characters and trade them online. Until then, well just shaddup and watch.