I have to agree with the parent post. Your issue is with turning those notes into a finished piece, not taking the notes themselves. If anything, you'll be less apt to write the story if the notes are in electronic form. It's MUCH easier to have an electronic file tucked away somewhere and never see it again than a notebook. Additionally, I've never had a pen & paper crash on me. You can pick up that notebook 20 years later and still read what you wrote while you were backpacking through Europe. Don't be so quick to throw out the simple and functional for what is more "convienient," because in the long term it often turns out to be anything but.
Leakage is a huge issue with chip design today. Not only source-drain leakage, but gate-drain and gate-substrate. Feature sizes have gotten so small that tunnelling current is no longer negligible.
Granted, bi-polar devices have much larger leakage, but saying FET devices have NO leakage is understating things a bit:)
I use something very similar. I live about 50 miles away from where I work (splits the difference for me and my gf).
What's really cool is that I can subscribe to this site, preprogram the different routes I can take to work and it will send me text messages whenever there is a major accident along the way, or when speeds drop below a set level. Additionally, I can access the site from my cellphone, and actually get an estimated time for my commute along the various routes, and take which ever one is shortest. It has saved me so much time, it's crazy.
This is not quite how life expectancy works. It is called life expectancy at birth, and it is the average age of death for a person born on a particular day. For example, if your life expectancy at birth was 78, that means that out of everybody born on the same day as you, the average age of death would be 78. Consequently, every year you live, the longer you are likely to live because some of your fellow birth-dayers have already died--you have beaten the odds for however many years you have been alive.
This is as per my Sociology of Population prof back in college.
This would allow for ever-increasing advanced in science, medecine, and technology which would appear to "boom" in the first century of this kind of "immortality".
This is one way of looking at it, but I'd be concerned that progress might stagnate. I read somewhere that most of the major contributions by scientists happen at the beginning of their career: in their 20's and 30's (I think the common tie was pre-marriage).
I'd be concerned that with the longer lifetimes, more people would strive to maintain the status quo. The influx of young hooligans turning the world upside down would have a much smaller impact if they are only a tiny portion of the population.
Further, if we quadruple our life-expectancies, we will in effect quadruple the earth's population. I'm not sure how long Earth could support 24 billion people. Do we then enforce a mandatory death age a la Brave New World (I think) or mandatory sterilization a la China?
I don't think this is a good idea. The **AA would probably just legislate some sort of DRM into the protocol, making it a crime to open your email because it would be violating the copyright of the sender.
It should also include the modding system to reduce spam. Not only would it eliminate the corporate garbage, it would get rid of those obnoxious urban-legend-chain-mail forwards that I get from my Grandma.
"Sigh. No, Nana. Nobody is going to try to harvest your kidneys for sale on the black market... I don't care what the Beta Email Tracking Application told you."
I wonder if 1000 years from now, there will be a new field of "folk programming."
Zort: Dang! I can't figure this out. I'm having difficulty get the Smegular Database Matrix to parse correctly. **Shudder**
Skrog: Have you tried using C++?
Zort: C++? That's just a silly old wives tale. It hasn't been proven that C++ even works. Nobody believes in that centuries-old mumbo-jumbo anymore.
Skrog: Fine. If you don't want to try C++, I'm calling my awk-upuncturist.
things that are legitimate to say language-wise are considered incorrect anyways
This is the distinction between prescriptive grammar and grammar as it is used. This includes the notorious double negative and end of sentence prepositions. See Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct for a detailed description of the issue.
And you think it's bad in English? Try it in German or French where the governments are trying to control language evolution with legislation, instead of just textbooks.
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Yeah, it was probably written in the US :)
There's a "Hot Grits" joke in there somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
I have to agree with the parent post. Your issue is with turning those notes into a finished piece, not taking the notes themselves. If anything, you'll be less apt to write the story if the notes are in electronic form. It's MUCH easier to have an electronic file tucked away somewhere and never see it again than a notebook. Additionally, I've never had a pen & paper crash on me. You can pick up that notebook 20 years later and still read what you wrote while you were backpacking through Europe. Don't be so quick to throw out the simple and functional for what is more "convienient," because in the long term it often turns out to be anything but.
FOIA = government honey pot?
Think about it.
You know I'm right.
Just like those ads that claim their product kills 99.9% of all bacteria.
This implies that the strongest (most resistant) 0.1% survive to reproduce. Nothing like giving natural selection a helping hand.
Then I got distracted by the ad banner at the top of my screen. Not sure what that would imply, exactly.
Hell, Dr. Phil looks like an evil Dr. Phil...
I guess this explains Apple's resurgence.
** flame suit on **
Come on, Slashdot vs. Google on Googlefight.com? The results were clearly rigged.
Hey, if it works for real estate, why not for tech?
[sings] I've got ocean-front property in Air-Ih-Zoe-Nuh.[/sings]
Mod parent up.
:)
Leakage is a huge issue with chip design today. Not only source-drain leakage, but gate-drain and gate-substrate. Feature sizes have gotten so small that tunnelling current is no longer negligible.
Granted, bi-polar devices have much larger leakage, but saying FET devices have NO leakage is understating things a bit
Where can I purchase said "snake oil?" Does it come with an extended warranty?
I use something very similar. I live about 50 miles away from where I work (splits the difference for me and my gf).
What's really cool is that I can subscribe to this site, preprogram the different routes I can take to work and it will send me text messages whenever there is a major accident along the way, or when speeds drop below a set level. Additionally, I can access the site from my cellphone, and actually get an estimated time for my commute along the various routes, and take which ever one is shortest. It has saved me so much time, it's crazy.
(No, I'm not affiliated with sigalert.)
In Soviet Russia, Mars builds nuclear power plants on YOU!
This is not quite how life expectancy works. It is called life expectancy at birth, and it is the average age of death for a person born on a particular day. For example, if your life expectancy at birth was 78, that means that out of everybody born on the same day as you, the average age of death would be 78. Consequently, every year you live, the longer you are likely to live because some of your fellow birth-dayers have already died--you have beaten the odds for however many years you have been alive.
This is as per my Sociology of Population prof back in college.
This is one way of looking at it, but I'd be concerned that progress might stagnate. I read somewhere that most of the major contributions by scientists happen at the beginning of their career: in their 20's and 30's (I think the common tie was pre-marriage).
I'd be concerned that with the longer lifetimes, more people would strive to maintain the status quo. The influx of young hooligans turning the world upside down would have a much smaller impact if they are only a tiny portion of the population.
Further, if we quadruple our life-expectancies, we will in effect quadruple the earth's population. I'm not sure how long Earth could support 24 billion people. Do we then enforce a mandatory death age a la Brave New World (I think) or mandatory sterilization a la China?
I don't think this is a good idea. The **AA would probably just legislate some sort of DRM into the protocol, making it a crime to open your email because it would be violating the copyright of the sender.
It should also include the modding system to reduce spam. Not only would it eliminate the corporate garbage, it would get rid of those obnoxious urban-legend-chain-mail forwards that I get from my Grandma.
"Sigh. No, Nana. Nobody is going to try to harvest your kidneys for sale on the black market... I don't care what the Beta Email Tracking Application told you."
I would have modded this "Insightful."
...they could come up with something to deal with those nasty keyboard "spills" for when I'm conducting my online "research".
I wonder if 1000 years from now, there will be a new field of "folk programming."
Zort: Dang! I can't figure this out. I'm having difficulty get the Smegular Database Matrix to parse correctly. **Shudder**
Skrog: Have you tried using C++?
Zort: C++? That's just a silly old wives tale. It hasn't been proven that C++ even works. Nobody believes in that centuries-old mumbo-jumbo anymore.
Skrog: Fine. If you don't want to try C++, I'm calling my awk-upuncturist.
And you think it's bad in English? Try it in German or French where the governments are trying to control language evolution with legislation, instead of just textbooks.
It is. 1) Pick up pen & paper 2) Use pen to write message on paper 3) Mail to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This is arguably much more accessible than email.