I agree, great advances were made by scientific advances and offshoot technologies from the space program, however, as you point out, they were made before 1980, during the cold war, at a time when NASA's budget peaked at four precent of the entire federal budget . Today's announcement seemed to indicate that the effort to get to the Moon/Mars will only require an additional $1bn to already allocated dollars to NASA. Can this be done? perhaps, but only at the expense of many other programs within NASA that are producing useful advances.
IMHO its very hard to view this as anything but a political move.
As a recent purchaser of a 15" Al PowerBook, I have to say that the display issues with this model have been pretty ugly. While the "seriousness" of the problem may not be as bad as the logic board faliures on the iBook, the white spots have plagued many who bought these very long awaited and otherwise beautiful laptops. While it is nice that Apple acknowledges the issue, it's not so nice that many users waited weeks for their laptop to be repaired/replaced only to recieve a system that again develops these spots.
Personally, I'd hold out on getting a G5 based machine until software (particularly an OS thats not just processor optimizations tacked onto a 32-bit platform) that fully utilizes its 64-bit capabilities shows up. Although, given Apple's current once a year OS release timeline, I wouldn't be suprised if 10.4 came out in both 32 and 64 bit flavors.
There has been talk that some form of the cube might make an appearance for the 20th anniversary of the mac next year, so maybe we'll actually see something like this in production next year...
Vibrations are simply waves...If you have two waves if the right frequency/amplitude you can cause destructive interference, i.e., cause them to cancel.
This gives hope for us physicists who work on methods and experiments that seem to have no practical use at the time. Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell won the 1953 physics nobel prize for developing the technique of NMR.
...for long-term survival of our species on Earth is ~1 billion years. This is roughly when increased thermal output of the sun (in its prepetual battle to hold itself up against its own gravitational pressure) will cause temperatures on Earth to rise to the point that the oceans start to boil away.
of course, by then, the machines will have taken over, so the issue of human survival will become moot.
Perhaps if you were only in the business of scanning plastic containers for contraband...and sort of ferromagnetic material that you would "scan" using a magnet in the multi-tesla reigon would be subject to becoming deadly projectiles.
Does anyone know of exposure to harmful substances in other companies that do similar manufacturing? I mean, surely, IBM does not have dramatically different methods of manufacturing hard drives and semiconductors from the rest of the industry.
...at a packing store mid last week
man (at counter): Its really hot out there today.
woman (customer): Yes, it really is!
man: I heard that its because Mars is so close to Earth these days
woman: oh, really?
man: yeah, you know, because the sky...its really big...
witness could bear to hear no more at this point.
I remember first learning how to program with BASIC on a commodore 64. Back then, it seems that the environment one was presented with (may it be Apple II, commodore 64/128, amiga, etc) was more conducive to kids learning how to code simple things on their own. You got frustrated with the limited immediate options and began to make things on your own. Nowadays, most kids first start using some shiny colorful OS (think winxp) and when bored can simply start surfing the web for stuff to do. Makes kids much less likely to seek out a rendition of Basic and code away.
I work at a DOE national lab. Here, the hand of uncle Sam prohibits the use of any M$ OS except for Windows 2000 (all flavors XP are excluded as well). Even win2k is only to be used for non-research purposes (i.e., administrative staff). Shows how reliable windows is considered to be around here...
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IMHO its very hard to view this as anything but a political move.
Seems like just as much vaporware as it was early last year.
But, overall, Apple, great job in 2003!
...A Martian parent whose christmas shopping was running late manages to get "a great deal" on an expensive Earth-made toy for his/her child...
Personally, I'd hold out on getting a G5 based machine until software (particularly an OS thats not just processor optimizations tacked onto a 32-bit platform) that fully utilizes its 64-bit capabilities shows up. Although, given Apple's current once a year OS release timeline, I wouldn't be suprised if 10.4 came out in both 32 and 64 bit flavors.
There has been talk that some form of the cube might make an appearance for the 20th anniversary of the mac next year, so maybe we'll actually see something like this in production next year...
Considering how buggy Enter the Matrix was, I would hope that they would take their time on this one rather than adhere to some hyped up release date.
Vibrations are simply waves...If you have two waves if the right frequency/amplitude you can cause destructive interference, i.e., cause them to cancel.
This gives hope for us physicists who work on methods and experiments that seem to have no practical use at the time. Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell won the 1953 physics nobel prize for developing the technique of NMR.
of course, by then, the machines will have taken over, so the issue of human survival will become moot.
Perhaps if you were only in the business of scanning plastic containers for contraband...and sort of ferromagnetic material that you would "scan" using a magnet in the multi-tesla reigon would be subject to becoming deadly projectiles.
How much of this accelerated decline in CD sales could be due to the launch of iTunes?
Does anyone know of exposure to harmful substances in other companies that do similar manufacturing? I mean, surely, IBM does not have dramatically different methods of manufacturing hard drives and semiconductors from the rest of the industry.
...at a packing store mid last week man (at counter): Its really hot out there today. woman (customer): Yes, it really is! man: I heard that its because Mars is so close to Earth these days woman: oh, really? man: yeah, you know, because the sky...its really big... witness could bear to hear no more at this point.
I remember first learning how to program with BASIC on a commodore 64. Back then, it seems that the environment one was presented with (may it be Apple II, commodore 64/128, amiga, etc) was more conducive to kids learning how to code simple things on their own. You got frustrated with the limited immediate options and began to make things on your own. Nowadays, most kids first start using some shiny colorful OS (think winxp) and when bored can simply start surfing the web for stuff to do. Makes kids much less likely to seek out a rendition of Basic and code away.
I work at a DOE national lab. Here, the hand of uncle Sam prohibits the use of any M$ OS except for Windows 2000 (all flavors XP are excluded as well). Even win2k is only to be used for non-research purposes (i.e., administrative staff). Shows how reliable windows is considered to be around here...