Next time you need to do some trivial math, pull out your netbook, boot it up, launch your calculator app of choice, and then hunt and peck on the trackpad to enter in your equations, and voila, the answer! Not to mention that most if not all standardized tests have strict rules about calculators, and usually any device with a QWERTY keypad is insta-banned.
The calculator you need depends on your area of study. For engineering students, a TI 83 is not adequate, unless you love pain, you need an 89. My worries about this new color calculator is that it is too simple. The color screen allows for pretty graphing, but does the calculator actually have a decent feature set, including things like basic calculus functions, symbolic equation handling, matrix math, etc? Judging by the very limited number of buttons, I would worry that this calculator either doesn't support a large variety of mathematical functions, or that using it will be very slow and inconvenient (going through several menus to get to commonly used mathematical functions).
The need for a graphing calculator doesn't necessarily end with school. Again, in the engineering business, you can count on many people keeping their trusty 89's in their desk drawer, to pull out whenever some non-trivial math comes calling. There are much more powerful ways of doing math, but paying for a license and training with MATLAB is not in the budget for most companies.
I also doubt that these calculators will dethrone TI, even if they are better than the 83 or 89. TI rules the market not because their products are particularly compelling (they aren't), but because of standardization. No one wants to be the only kid in class using an HP or Casio, because you have to figure out how to use your non-standard calculator to do things taught towards the 83 or 89.
They were designed to work for 3 months with a HUGE margin of safety. NASA over engineers the heck out of everything. So in reality, the parts were probably designed to last for 3-6 years, to guarantee they would work for 3-6 months.
Sorry for the obvious question (at least for some of you physists), but if we don't have a "time" dimension, how will the universe work? I was under the impression that most of physics is based on the fact that all sorts of teeny little things are vibrating and spinning and such, all of which require time (velocity = distance/time, after all). If suddenly we have another spacial dimension, doesn't everything just freeze up?
Agreed, there are quite a few species that use tools. Chimps and gorillas use twigs to get at ants, birds use sticks and drop nuts onto streets and rocks to crack them.
The real sign of intelligence is to MAKE tools as opposed to just picking up twigs.
Quite a few people. I know someone who celebrated the XP launch by buying a new computer,
1.6 GHz P4
Geforce 4 Graphics
512MB of RAM
80GB HD
DVD and CD-RW
That runs Vista just fine, as you can see, and was actually not that expensive back in the latter half of 2001 (probably around the $1500 mark).
I knew a guy who had a 1/2 Fractional T1 line a couple of years back (no other broadband to his area at the time, and he telecommuted). What you are paying for is the service. My 10MBps cable line goes down all the time. When my friend unplugged his T1 modem to rearrange his server cabinet, within 30 seconds his phone was ringing with a call from the T1 provider asking if he was experiencing downtime, and if they could help.
Indeed it is. Now, motherboard manufacturers need to get in on this new scam of making consumers buy two of everything (two processors, two graphics cards, two disk RAID arrays). We need new "Dual Motherboard" systems so that Asus and Gigabyte can further stuff their pockets! I'm sure Intel wouldn't mind the extra cash to shove into its already bulging bank accounts! Also, it would be one more thing that AMD doesn't have! Win win situation!
Read Darwin, dimwit. He says nothing about "survival of the fittest". Its all about how many kids you have. If people catch HIV from sex, and sex is how you make babies, then people who have sex are not only more likely to catch HIV, but also more "fit" by Darwin's definition.
Put a big piece of double sided tape on the inside ring of the record. On the tape should be printed "WARNING: DO NOT PLACE NEEDLE ON TAPE". This will allow human operators to successfully play the record (after reading the label), but will instantly ruin your needle if a mechanical or computer controlled record player tries to play the record (automatic needle placement).
My dog can already sniff out Body Odor, Ramen noodles and Hotpockets, the three indicators of major piracy (and WoW) and I haven't even trained her! How is this a big deal!?!
Remember, this kid is in HIGH SCHOOL. Hes gonna get 3 good years out of the TI-84 before college exams are an issue. Any yes, in most colleges (including the one I attend, Carnegie Mellon University), Calculators are not usually allowed on Exams. The four math classes I have taken (Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Calculus in 3D, Differential Equations) do not allow calculators on the tests (nor would they be of all that much use). The classes I have taken that allow Calculators have mostly been engineering classes where the calculator is only used for basic arithmetic and trig (adding and subtracting forces, etc...).
Yes, HP has made some good calculators. However, some of their more recent models have been made out of cheap plastic and have gotten bad reviews for fragility. My TI-83 Titanium lasted me 4 years of high school, several drops onto tile/concrete floors, and one drop down a flight of stairs. It still works/looks great. It needed new batteries every six months or so. I gave it to my brother who just started High School when I got my TI-89 Titanium. Also, even if you do have a better calculator, it is not of much use if the class is taught towards TI-83s. In my math classes in high school (a decent public school) the teachers regularly taught "toward" the TI-83 (i.e. telling us the button presses to do various math problems). This left the people with TI-89s and HPs out in the cold.
I'm a mechanical engineering major at Carnegie Mellon. In high school, I went through the same thing as you, your gadget urges telling you to buy something nicer than the TI-83 (now 84). Resist these urges. On tests, including the SATs and APs, fancy laptops and super-calculators are not allowed, and proctors will confiscate what they aren't sure about. All of your high school classes will be geared toward the 83/84, when teachers explain how to use a new function, they will explain it with 83/84 button presses, and you will be left frantically flipping through your 200 page manual to find the equivalent. Plus, all your friends are going to have 83/84s, so if you want to make/play games, these are the best calculators to do it on. I can confirm for you that right now, you are clear all the way through high school with an 83/84. Even as a mechanical engineer, lots of people still use 83s. I traded my 83 for an 89 Titanium in freshman year of college. The 89s are very powerful, but also a LOT harder to use than the 83s. Everything takes at least twice the button presses of the 83, and there are far fewer add-on applications. I know there are other brands, such as HP and Casio, but ignore these. These calculators are either crappy cheap ripoffs (Casio, even the color ones), or incredibly complicated unreliable overspeced computers (HP).
1. OS X is for x86 and PPC. There are no low power x86 or PPC chips that will work in a cell phone (lowest power Core Solo is 5W, wheras a cellphone needs something more like 0.05W). Therefore, the processor is probably an ARM (also could be MIPS or SH5). Even if they were to recompile and rewrite the operating system so that it ran on ARM, there would be no point, as all OS X applications, even "Universal Binary" ones, will only run on x86 or PPC.
2. OS X is an operating system meant for a full sized, full function PC. Why write an operating system that can do all sorts of stuff that you aren't going to do on a cell phone. You probably won't be burning CDs or using photoshop on your cell phone, why use an operating system meant for those things?
3. OS X is power/graphics hungry. ARM powered cell phones have very little processor power to deal with. Using OS X would slow down your cell phone to a crawl.
The iPhone "OS X" is in no way related to real OS X, and may not even be written by Apple. Only time will tell. It does piss me off that Steve-o is mis-advertising it.
- IE 7.0 update - Better music search function - Improved battery life - Solves "mooing" sound problem - Sony Lion battery bypass - XBox 360 HD-DVD computability - Windows Genuine Advantage - New "Glass" GUI
The problem seems obvious. If the shuttle computer is allowed to think it is the 366th day of the year, it will obviously turn evil and try to destroy the earth using the vast orbiting nuclear arsenal, while we sit helpless on the surface. We can't allow this to happen.
Vista isn't backwards compatable with older DirectXs, but DirectX 10 is backwards compatable:
You can't install DirectX 8.0 on Vista, but DirectX 10 will run DirectX 9 games just fine. DirectX 10 just builds on what is already there in DirectX 9, so DirectX 10 games will have spiffy features that DirectX 9 games don't have.
I may well be mistaken, but I was under the impression that this card is compatable with DirectX 10. However, that does not say that it will run DirectX 10 games very fast, since it is a 1st Gen DX10 card. Plus you know in a couple of months ATI will introduce a Radeon XX2959 XGXTX2 that is 4% faster and has twice as many "X"s, and these card will be worthless.
Even now, nothing gets attention like a duct tape wallet. Make sure you build and design it yourself, because every hot checkout clerk is gonna ask you if you built and designed it yourself. Good times!
Every college does these things differently. For instance, I'm a Mech E major at Carnegie Mellon University, and I am currintly carrying 49 credits this semester, which is about average. At the end of this semester I will have upwards of 140 credits. Each school has a different notion of what a credit is.
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Next time you need to do some trivial math, pull out your netbook, boot it up, launch your calculator app of choice, and then hunt and peck on the trackpad to enter in your equations, and voila, the answer! Not to mention that most if not all standardized tests have strict rules about calculators, and usually any device with a QWERTY keypad is insta-banned.
The calculator you need depends on your area of study. For engineering students, a TI 83 is not adequate, unless you love pain, you need an 89. My worries about this new color calculator is that it is too simple. The color screen allows for pretty graphing, but does the calculator actually have a decent feature set, including things like basic calculus functions, symbolic equation handling, matrix math, etc? Judging by the very limited number of buttons, I would worry that this calculator either doesn't support a large variety of mathematical functions, or that using it will be very slow and inconvenient (going through several menus to get to commonly used mathematical functions). The need for a graphing calculator doesn't necessarily end with school. Again, in the engineering business, you can count on many people keeping their trusty 89's in their desk drawer, to pull out whenever some non-trivial math comes calling. There are much more powerful ways of doing math, but paying for a license and training with MATLAB is not in the budget for most companies. I also doubt that these calculators will dethrone TI, even if they are better than the 83 or 89. TI rules the market not because their products are particularly compelling (they aren't), but because of standardization. No one wants to be the only kid in class using an HP or Casio, because you have to figure out how to use your non-standard calculator to do things taught towards the 83 or 89.
They were designed to work for 3 months with a HUGE margin of safety. NASA over engineers the heck out of everything. So in reality, the parts were probably designed to last for 3-6 years, to guarantee they would work for 3-6 months.
Sorry for the obvious question (at least for some of you physists), but if we don't have a "time" dimension, how will the universe work? I was under the impression that most of physics is based on the fact that all sorts of teeny little things are vibrating and spinning and such, all of which require time (velocity = distance/time, after all). If suddenly we have another spacial dimension, doesn't everything just freeze up?
Agreed, there are quite a few species that use tools. Chimps and gorillas use twigs to get at ants, birds use sticks and drop nuts onto streets and rocks to crack them.
The real sign of intelligence is to MAKE tools as opposed to just picking up twigs.
To be fair, the topic of the thread IS police raids by the German government, so its not a huge stretch.
I guess it was a geForce3, then, wasn't it?
Quite a few people. I know someone who celebrated the XP launch by buying a new computer, 1.6 GHz P4 Geforce 4 Graphics 512MB of RAM 80GB HD DVD and CD-RW That runs Vista just fine, as you can see, and was actually not that expensive back in the latter half of 2001 (probably around the $1500 mark).
I knew a guy who had a 1/2 Fractional T1 line a couple of years back (no other broadband to his area at the time, and he telecommuted). What you are paying for is the service. My 10MBps cable line goes down all the time. When my friend unplugged his T1 modem to rearrange his server cabinet, within 30 seconds his phone was ringing with a call from the T1 provider asking if he was experiencing downtime, and if they could help.
Indeed it is. Now, motherboard manufacturers need to get in on this new scam of making consumers buy two of everything (two processors, two graphics cards, two disk RAID arrays). We need new "Dual Motherboard" systems so that Asus and Gigabyte can further stuff their pockets! I'm sure Intel wouldn't mind the extra cash to shove into its already bulging bank accounts! Also, it would be one more thing that AMD doesn't have! Win win situation!
Read Darwin, dimwit. He says nothing about "survival of the fittest". Its all about how many kids you have. If people catch HIV from sex, and sex is how you make babies, then people who have sex are not only more likely to catch HIV, but also more "fit" by Darwin's definition.
Simple:
Put a big piece of double sided tape on the inside ring of the record. On the tape should be printed "WARNING: DO NOT PLACE NEEDLE ON TAPE". This will allow human operators to successfully play the record (after reading the label), but will instantly ruin your needle if a mechanical or computer controlled record player tries to play the record (automatic needle placement).
My dog can already sniff out Body Odor, Ramen noodles and Hotpockets, the three indicators of major piracy (and WoW) and I haven't even trained her! How is this a big deal!?!
Remember, this kid is in HIGH SCHOOL. Hes gonna get 3 good years out of the TI-84 before college exams are an issue. Any yes, in most colleges (including the one I attend, Carnegie Mellon University), Calculators are not usually allowed on Exams. The four math classes I have taken (Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Calculus in 3D, Differential Equations) do not allow calculators on the tests (nor would they be of all that much use). The classes I have taken that allow Calculators have mostly been engineering classes where the calculator is only used for basic arithmetic and trig (adding and subtracting forces, etc...). Yes, HP has made some good calculators. However, some of their more recent models have been made out of cheap plastic and have gotten bad reviews for fragility. My TI-83 Titanium lasted me 4 years of high school, several drops onto tile/concrete floors, and one drop down a flight of stairs. It still works/looks great. It needed new batteries every six months or so. I gave it to my brother who just started High School when I got my TI-89 Titanium. Also, even if you do have a better calculator, it is not of much use if the class is taught towards TI-83s. In my math classes in high school (a decent public school) the teachers regularly taught "toward" the TI-83 (i.e. telling us the button presses to do various math problems). This left the people with TI-89s and HPs out in the cold.
I'm a mechanical engineering major at Carnegie Mellon. In high school, I went through the same thing as you, your gadget urges telling you to buy something nicer than the TI-83 (now 84). Resist these urges. On tests, including the SATs and APs, fancy laptops and super-calculators are not allowed, and proctors will confiscate what they aren't sure about. All of your high school classes will be geared toward the 83/84, when teachers explain how to use a new function, they will explain it with 83/84 button presses, and you will be left frantically flipping through your 200 page manual to find the equivalent. Plus, all your friends are going to have 83/84s, so if you want to make/play games, these are the best calculators to do it on. I can confirm for you that right now, you are clear all the way through high school with an 83/84. Even as a mechanical engineer, lots of people still use 83s. I traded my 83 for an 89 Titanium in freshman year of college. The 89s are very powerful, but also a LOT harder to use than the 83s. Everything takes at least twice the button presses of the 83, and there are far fewer add-on applications. I know there are other brands, such as HP and Casio, but ignore these. These calculators are either crappy cheap ripoffs (Casio, even the color ones), or incredibly complicated unreliable overspeced computers (HP).
This OS X stuff is BS. Think about it like this:
1. OS X is for x86 and PPC. There are no low power x86 or PPC chips that will work in a cell phone (lowest power Core Solo is 5W, wheras a cellphone needs something more like 0.05W). Therefore, the processor is probably an ARM (also could be MIPS or SH5). Even if they were to recompile and rewrite the operating system so that it ran on ARM, there would be no point, as all OS X applications, even "Universal Binary" ones, will only run on x86 or PPC.
2. OS X is an operating system meant for a full sized, full function PC. Why write an operating system that can do all sorts of stuff that you aren't going to do on a cell phone. You probably won't be burning CDs or using photoshop on your cell phone, why use an operating system meant for those things?
3. OS X is power/graphics hungry. ARM powered cell phones have very little processor power to deal with. Using OS X would slow down your cell phone to a crawl.
The iPhone "OS X" is in no way related to real OS X, and may not even be written by Apple. Only time will tell. It does piss me off that Steve-o is mis-advertising it.
Rover change log:
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- IE 7.0 update
- Better music search function
- Improved battery life
- Solves "mooing" sound problem
- Sony Lion battery bypass
- XBox 360 HD-DVD computability
- Windows Genuine Advantage
- New "Glass" GUI
The problem seems obvious. If the shuttle computer is allowed to think it is the 366th day of the year, it will obviously turn evil and try to destroy the earth using the vast orbiting nuclear arsenal, while we sit helpless on the surface. We can't allow this to happen.
Vista isn't backwards compatable with older DirectXs, but DirectX 10 is backwards compatable: You can't install DirectX 8.0 on Vista, but DirectX 10 will run DirectX 9 games just fine. DirectX 10 just builds on what is already there in DirectX 9, so DirectX 10 games will have spiffy features that DirectX 9 games don't have. I may well be mistaken, but I was under the impression that this card is compatable with DirectX 10. However, that does not say that it will run DirectX 10 games very fast, since it is a 1st Gen DX10 card. Plus you know in a couple of months ATI will introduce a Radeon XX2959 XGXTX2 that is 4% faster and has twice as many "X"s, and these card will be worthless.
3 Inches less practical than 17" laptops.
Even now, nothing gets attention like a duct tape wallet. Make sure you build and design it yourself, because every hot checkout clerk is gonna ask you if you built and designed it yourself. Good times!
Because a guy getting hit in the crotch with a football is just as funny in Hong Kong as it is un Kansas City.
Every college does these things differently. For instance, I'm a Mech E major at Carnegie Mellon University, and I am currintly carrying 49 credits this semester, which is about average. At the end of this semester I will have upwards of 140 credits. Each school has a different notion of what a credit is.
That was kinda the point of the comment...
The black dots are martians.