True, I am thinking that currently most (not all...) will purchase this laptop simply to have the "my dick is bigger than yours..." argument. However, one never knows when I might feel the urge to do some computational physics etc... ok... well it is nice to know that if I wanted to I could.
Of course, because the controller is really coated with a film of Methyl 1-Test. The very notion of exercising with playing a video game is laughable at best. One will not become a fitness model by playing video games, heck one will not even become "tone" by playing video games. Play video games for entertainment lift/run/whatever for fitness, the concept is not that difficult to grasp.
I think that we should look to Ernest Shackelton
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One-Way Ticket to Mars?
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Men wanted for hazardous journey - small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.
Ernest Shackelton placed this ad to recruit applicants for his Antartic voyage. Five thousand individuals responded. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is it, save for the deep of the oceans there is little adventure left here. Everst and K2 have been summited, the globe circumnavigated, Antartica traversed. We must look elseware. We must look to the Moon and Mars. Honour and recognition await those who dare apply...
do you think Buzz Aldrin and the others got in that rocket thinking "mmmm this is confy and safe!"
It seems as if NASA is lacking men such as Buzz Aldrin as of late. Seriously, does anyone else think the astronauts are today just aren't, shall we say as spunky as they astronauts of the 1960s. Here is a quicky just to prove that Buzz Aldrin still has it. Perhaps a mission like this is what NASA needs, something to shake things up a bit no?
It could be a manifest destiny thing, however I suspect other motives. Why not do a manned mission, sure it is dangerous, and yes the possibility of people dying is very real, but the old argument of "Why climb a mountain" applies. Probes cannot convey the human experience of standing on the Martain surface and running red sand through your hands, sure they do not need food/water/supplies and there is little chance of loss of life save a rocket exploding on the pad, but who here hasn't dreamed of going to Mars? It is hard coded in the human spirit to explore. From taking our first steps as a child, we have always wanted to go there (no, not Mars, a generic there), there which we have not set foot before, there into the unknown. In short, we do not need to colonize Mars as much as we want to colonize Mars.
Wasn't this done in Kin Stenley Robinson's Red Mars. Personally I think it is an interesting proposal, however I do not work for NASA, yet at least. Perhaps someone with some insider information could reveal whether or not this has been discussed/is an option. I do not see why it is not out of the realm of possibility. Heck, once I finish my degree I would gladly volunteer
Hmm, I only have second-hand accounts with regards to the iBook but from what I gather they are pretty tough little cookies with regards to drops & spills. Yet, I have also heard of issues like the backlite. With regards to the price, I have heard that they are reasonable when compared to other brands, especially Sonys
Now for the tiBook. I have been rather impressed with the quality of mine and have had no issues to date. Then again you expect it when you pay and arm and a leg for your laptop. A common problem I have been hearing of though is that the screen hinges tend to break.
Slightly OT but given the recent controversy surrounding Yung Park (a materials scientist at Cambridge), it seems as if plagerism is becoming a bit more public. One good thing about this bot is that it most likely won't falsify results merely to be published in a high impact journal like Science or Nature, or to receive a Nobel/Field's Medal.
If I were you I would be a bit concerned over the fate of the James Webb Space Telescope. Simply put I would fear the Joe Sixpack just doesn't find a telescope all that sexy compared to a Moon mission. I personally fear for that fate of a possible Titan mission. Cripes, I want to find life on Titan!
Yes indeed Fortran is still alive and kicking. Although I have heard that some of the physics libraries are being converted to C/C++.
As an aside, has anyone else noticed the lack of Fortran texts in brick & motor bookstores? I know Numerical Recepies in Fortran is online, anyone care to mention a good intro. text for a "n00b" like me?
Depending on what you want to do, there are some highly specialized, hardcore symbolic programs which make Maple, Mathematica, and Mathcad seem like toys.
Like what? Seriously, where can I find them? I will most likely be too much to a novice to make use of them, but they would be interesting to see and I am sure I am not alone in this. Also, why are not some of the features that are present in these high-performance programs incorporated into commercial apps. such as Mathematica and Maple? Perhaps Wolfram's ego would be bruised by using other code?
Unfortunatly, IANAAP so I did not quite know this. A quick google search shows that indeed this is not the first binary pulsar. Also, yes the article is being published in Science, however I found the press release in Nature. Another oops on my part.
Perhaps you should consider a Panasonic Toughbook. I have no experience with them personally, however I only hear good things about their durability. They are a bit pricey though.
I would be interested to see how FORTRAN stacked up as well. As someone who may pick up a physics B.S. I would enjoy making use of the extensive FORTRAN libraries. Yet, I have heard that many are being converted to C++. Perhaps someone my language literate than I could care to comment?
They also interviewed a bunch of little kids who were all very uninterested in Legos. What a shame...
It really is a shame. Legos got me interested in a career in engineering, which in turn got me interested in the sciences at a rather young age. Hell I still consider Legos to be pretty cool especially the mindstorms kits and I am 19.
They most likely want to follow procedure. It would be rather unfourtunate to spend approx. $800 million, travel the approx. 78 milliom kilometers to Mars, land successfully and then do something stupid like flip the rover or get an airbag tangled in it's wheels because we did not want to spend a few days to get things sorted. While I do think that NASA needs to be a bit more "ballsy" to be blunt, I believe that this is a case in which procedure should attempt to be followed.
Yes you are true. My main point was that machines can assist even those who study the pure maths. They are a tool to be utilized, not a "magic" box which produces proofs. Utilized well, as Hales has shown, they can produce amazing results.
From what I gather computers can help. I am not a pure math major, however from what I gather Hales used a computer program to prove by exhaustion Kepler's Conjecture. While Hales did not use a pocket calculator, he did use a machine to perform the proof, no?
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True, I am thinking that currently most (not all...) will purchase this laptop simply to have the "my dick is bigger than yours..." argument. However, one never knows when I might feel the urge to do some computational physics etc... ok... well it is nice to know that if I wanted to I could.
And I suppose I can take the Shuttle on an airplane, or to my favorite local coffee house? Laptops do have their advantages.
Of course, because the controller is really coated with a film of Methyl 1-Test. The very notion of exercising with playing a video game is laughable at best. One will not become a fitness model by playing video games, heck one will not even become "tone" by playing video games. Play video games for entertainment lift/run/whatever for fitness, the concept is not that difficult to grasp.
Men wanted for hazardous journey - small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.
Ernest Shackelton placed this ad to recruit applicants for his Antartic voyage. Five thousand individuals responded. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is it, save for the deep of the oceans there is little adventure left here. Everst and K2 have been summited, the globe circumnavigated, Antartica traversed. We must look elseware. We must look to the Moon and Mars. Honour and recognition await those who dare apply...
Err , sorry forgot the tags... here is the link to the Buzz Aldrin punch video.
do you think Buzz Aldrin and the others got in that rocket thinking "mmmm this is confy and safe!"
It seems as if NASA is lacking men such as Buzz Aldrin as of late. Seriously, does anyone else think the astronauts are today just aren't, shall we say as spunky as they astronauts of the 1960s. Here is a quicky just to prove that Buzz Aldrin still has it. Perhaps a mission like this is what NASA needs, something to shake things up a bit no?
It could be a manifest destiny thing, however I suspect other motives. Why not do a manned mission, sure it is dangerous, and yes the possibility of people dying is very real, but the old argument of "Why climb a mountain" applies. Probes cannot convey the human experience of standing on the Martain surface and running red sand through your hands, sure they do not need food/water/supplies and there is little chance of loss of life save a rocket exploding on the pad, but who here hasn't dreamed of going to Mars? It is hard coded in the human spirit to explore. From taking our first steps as a child, we have always wanted to go there (no, not Mars, a generic there), there which we have not set foot before, there into the unknown. In short, we do not need to colonize Mars as much as we want to colonize Mars.
Wasn't this done in Kin Stenley Robinson's Red Mars. Personally I think it is an interesting proposal, however I do not work for NASA, yet at least. Perhaps someone with some insider information could reveal whether or not this has been discussed/is an option. I do not see why it is not out of the realm of possibility. Heck, once I finish my degree I would gladly volunteer
Hmm, I only have second-hand accounts with regards to the iBook but from what I gather they are pretty tough little cookies with regards to drops & spills. Yet, I have also heard of issues like the backlite. With regards to the price, I have heard that they are reasonable when compared to other brands, especially Sonys
Now for the tiBook. I have been rather impressed with the quality of mine and have had no issues to date. Then again you expect it when you pay and arm and a leg for your laptop. A common problem I have been hearing of though is that the screen hinges tend to break.
O it is interesting.
Slightly OT but given the recent controversy surrounding Yung Park (a materials scientist at Cambridge), it seems as if plagerism is becoming a bit more public. One good thing about this bot is that it most likely won't falsify results merely to be published in a high impact journal like Science or Nature, or to receive a Nobel/Field's Medal.
Here is the paper coverring this topic. It appears in this weeks Nature.
If I were you I would be a bit concerned over the fate of the James Webb Space Telescope. Simply put I would fear the Joe Sixpack just doesn't find a telescope all that sexy compared to a Moon mission. I personally fear for that fate of a possible Titan mission. Cripes, I want to find life on Titan!
How about a soyuz? They are tried, true, and tough as nails.
Yes indeed Fortran is still alive and kicking. Although I have heard that some of the physics libraries are being converted to C/C++.
As an aside, has anyone else noticed the lack of Fortran texts in brick & motor bookstores? I know Numerical Recepies in Fortran is online, anyone care to mention a good intro. text for a "n00b" like me?
Isn't this essentially just cosplay? Individuals dressing as characters from a (video game)/(PC game)/(pencil & paper RPG) isn't exactly new.
Depending on what you want to do, there are some highly specialized, hardcore symbolic programs which make Maple, Mathematica, and Mathcad seem like toys.
Like what? Seriously, where can I find them? I will most likely be too much to a novice to make use of them, but they would be interesting to see and I am sure I am not alone in this. Also, why are not some of the features that are present in these high-performance programs incorporated into commercial apps. such as Mathematica and Maple? Perhaps Wolfram's ego would be bruised by using other code?
Unfortunatly, IANAAP so I did not quite know this. A quick google search shows that indeed this is not the first binary pulsar. Also, yes the article is being published in Science, however I found the press release in Nature. Another oops on my part.
Perhaps you should consider a Panasonic Toughbook. I have no experience with them personally, however I only hear good things about their durability. They are a bit pricey though.
I would be interested to see how FORTRAN stacked up as well. As someone who may pick up a physics B.S. I would enjoy making use of the extensive FORTRAN libraries. Yet, I have heard that many are being converted to C++. Perhaps someone my language literate than I could care to comment?
They also interviewed a bunch of little kids who were all very uninterested in Legos. What a shame...
It really is a shame. Legos got me interested in a career in engineering, which in turn got me interested in the sciences at a rather young age. Hell I still consider Legos to be pretty cool especially the mindstorms kits and I am 19.
They most likely want to follow procedure. It would be rather unfourtunate to spend approx. $800 million, travel the approx. 78 milliom kilometers to Mars, land successfully and then do something stupid like flip the rover or get an airbag tangled in it's wheels because we did not want to spend a few days to get things sorted. While I do think that NASA needs to be a bit more "ballsy" to be blunt, I believe that this is a case in which procedure should attempt to be followed.
Yes you are true. My main point was that machines can assist even those who study the pure maths. They are a tool to be utilized, not a "magic" box which produces proofs. Utilized well, as Hales has shown, they can produce amazing results.
From what I gather computers can help. I am not a pure math major, however from what I gather Hales used a computer program to prove by exhaustion Kepler's Conjecture. While Hales did not use a pocket calculator, he did use a machine to perform the proof, no?
Hmm... well damn I feel rather like an idiot now. Thanks for the link.