I'll second that. I had a later model without the light sensor for data, but has a snap-on USB cable. The thing that was great is you could add as many timers as you wanted, as long as you had the memory...I think I had 1 each of about half the standard apps, plus 10 count-down timers and about 20 of the (very flexible: daily, day of week, weekend, etc.) alarms. worked great.
difference is that this is not re-distributing like the cable company did. They took one source and then broadcast it out to many. this takes a single source and sends to a single person.
isn't this a variation on Cell architecture? except, no one could figure out how to write the OS and compiler to fully realize the goal of programs that could be farmed out by the ARM CPU to the special processors on one chip, let alone farm to multiple cell's over a network.
Now all we need is an app market for these:) I'd love to have a website I could go to to see what people have put on these and try them out....of course in a lot of cases you would only want to have one app on there at a time, but it'd be fun to swap out just using a download. Want it to be a file server? download the app. need a simple web database? download the app., need it to do X? see if there's already an app for it...
knowing how we got to the point we're at now with computers is, to me, one of the most important ways to advance them.
If you know what threads have been followed already you can figure out new threads to follow without wasting time re-following things that have already been done to the end and back. And of course there's always the good thing of not re-inventing the wheel without realizing it. Wheels need re-invented from time to time, but if you don't know it's already been done, you prolly won't add anything new to the process.
I see a lot of posts taking learning history as programming in basic or assembly and getting hands on with the early tech. That's good if you want to just program, maybe it even counts as history for that part of computers, but I'd think learning history means looking at how computers got to where we are now by finding out the radical shifts in thought and sometimes controversial ideas that landed us with this amazing technology we use every day now...
Serious question about the summary: the comment about the outer planets shielding us from collisions caught my attention. Does the Moon have any similar ability? does it help steer asteroids away from us due to it's size compared to Earth's?
I think the moon caused most of those conditions: stressing the Earth via tidal forces stirs up the core, breaks up the crust, evens out our wobble. The Moon caused us. The Moon seems to be awfully suspicious. so, 2 possibilities:
1) it like us, and we should worship it
2) aliens put it there and we just have to find the big rockets on the dark side that prove it and follow the manufacture's stickers on 'em to our creators.
only thing I can't figure out for 2) is if they made us, who made them? hmmm...
Let's estimate a collection of about 400 movies. To be conservative, say stick one in the player 4 nights our of 5 weeknights (how often does an average person watch TV? couple of hours a night? substitute a movie instead). Add say 3 movies for the weekend. That's about 14 hours a week. 400 movies (at 2 hours each) is enough for 57 weeks or so. Just over a year. Doesn't seem like I'm dedicating my life to sitting in front of the tube then. Also take into account that putting on a movie doesn't mean stopping all else. The TV makes good background to other stuff. I just don't watch much live TV...
Did that, do that (go through the list every once in a while and get rid of the ones I don't watch anymore). The collections is not catching dust. I use the disks currently. After giving up cable (realizing that most of the stuff I actually watched I already own) it's now just easy to hit the collection when I want to watch something. Granted I don't go through all them every week, but I also don't buy more every week. only a few on the shelves sit there for "gotta have 'em all" urges and don't get played much.
Just to fill in some detail, I have the collection alphabetized on shelves, and yup, I can walk over and get them easy enough. Just trying to declutter the movies (and possibly games, CD-ROM's, blue ray, whatever) like I did the audio CD's a while back. I ripped the audio CD's to disk easy enough, and was looking to do same with others but ripping movies I kept running into little issues. Nothing that would make it impossible, just was hoping that since discs were common for several generations of media, there was something out already to just drop the discs into. The Sony player looked promising, but it's depreciated by Sony and got lack luster reviews. Sometimes, even with unlimited HD storage, it's just nice to have the disc available for any media...
It's not so much laziness as clutter. the bookshelves take up needed space and I'd hoped discs being common format, someone would have had a solution by now. Just hoping anyway...
The first hit I get is to the Kintronics page which seems data center oriented and I couldn't find the prices or ordering info beyond "contact us". I assume I missed part of the site...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pprk/
back in the days of Palm computing, it was known that letting your portable devices run around from time to time on their own was good for their health...:)
No problem with my comprehension...those people LEARNED about computers on paper before using them...yes, they used computers later, but my point was learning computers can happen without the computer being there in front of them, and may be better.
where's the exponential effects of technology?
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Automation and technology is supposed to (in an ideal world) free us from "lower" work to allow us to work on creative or "higher" work. If that was the case, technology should be leading to more and more "higher" works such as art, science development, etc. But, all it's really doing is taking away the ability to make money. So what's the missing piece? Or, is the trick to go from doing the jobs technology takes over to getting the technology to make money for us?
If so, I'm all over investing in an army of worker robots to make money for me instead of giving all my money to colleges:)
"I'd like to see how you successfully teach pupils to use and program computers without using any."
If you can't think of how to do this, then you don't have much imagination. Most of the better programmers and users I know are ones that learned before computers were so common, and learned a lot "on paper" before getting to actually practice on the real computer.
And I'm curious if the school on the article is talking about putting computers in front of students, the teachers using computers or both...
I think the significant finding is how the layers are timed or sequenced....they knew that embryos develop in layers, they just didn't know how that was achieved. Now they do: layer after layer of the relevant DNA is exposed via a mechanical unwinding of the HOX genes.
I've always been irritated when an artist takes something back after giving to their audience. Lucas in particular was arrogant enough to think he still owned that story after not only gave it to audiences but sold it to them (i.e. they payed him money, and he STILL thinks it's only his). I don't think that once someone else see a work, they own it, but when you share a piece of art or creation, you've given a piece of it to them...you are now co-owner. Think of a sculpture: artists shows it to someone,they now have a piece of it to themselves. He may just show it but keep it, fine. If he sold it or gave it to someone does he really feel like he can just go reclaim it at any time? same token, the person who now has it cannot keep it or change it without feeling some responsibility to the creator...Yes they do that (both ways) but they are missing something.
Lucas is a punk to me just because he's still trying to control something AFTER he gave it to audiences. If he allowed the original versions to stay out there, not as big a deal. Yanking it back after giving it to us, very arrogant and immature. If he thinks he owns it to this level, should have just kept it in his basement locked up and never let an audience share it.
the end point of 3D printing is not all-one-piece items. It is intended to be able to create any structures or structures in one "print run" . Being able to create interesting one-piece structures is just a side effect of the building method that is showing to have some interesting potential.
So, you don't use it which means nobody does? My guess is if you don't use it it's because you don't understand how to use it, or the only way you talk to other machines over the network is via a browser.
I use it daily, not for troubleshooting or admin, but just for average use. Running a browser from one machine onto another is a great way to not have to worry about a locked down machine using a bad browser by default and I get to keep all my shortcuts and plug-ins as is no matter where I am. Yes, there are other ways to do the same, but this just works.
Are there some things that could be done better? probably. I'd love a smoother way of getting the xauth setup between two machines, and maybe some way of launching programs that is one-click (a program launcher on the remote machine that can be started easily from a shortcut?). But those kinds of thing have nothing to do with the X architecture itself, just user-level tweaks.
My biggest issue is I want X to be used more, not less. instead of the web browser interface for my router, I'd love an X-app that displays on my PC. And, too bad my phone can't send the contacts app to my desktop when I want to use my keyboard and mouse instead of the touchscreen. And let's not even get into how useful my TV would be if it had a built-in X server...
Along the same lines, does making them from one piece make them harder to fix when you crack one up? you'd have to replace the whole body I would imagine...
Noticed some interesting comments about Europe vs US attitude on nudity that may apply to violence....
some mentioned that Europe has a problem not with nudity but with sexuality. That seems to imply that in Europe an ad could get into trouble with fully-clothed models portraying something with sexual implications more than a model just showing the wrong part of their body: context matters.
Would discussion on what violence is allowable benefit from similar shades of distinction? example, someone being shot in a FPS is different from someone being torn in half in MK. But, I'd struggle to put into words what is different in objective terms. Do those categories/classifications already exist? Does someone need to define those before talking about it?
Right now what little" smarts" there are are only at the ends of the grid (the generation and consuming ends). and those "smarts" aren't so smart. even if they were, though, there's only so much you can do dynamicallyfrom the ends. All the generator can see are huge mostly predictable spikes in demand. And the consumer doesn't have much if any view in to what's available to pull from the grid. Right now the grid itself has no part. it's just a wire.
Smart grid put some intelligence and sensors in those wires along with some ability to use it at both end. detecting problems, quuicker reponse to load shifts and flexibility in what is plugged in ("caches" can be utilized, local generarion can be tapped easier, energy trading can be much improved, etc.).
Oh, and huge new drains like electric cars and such can be planned for instead of hoping we don't blow the system by having too many people charge their cars at the same time...
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I'll second that. I had a later model without the light sensor for data, but has a snap-on USB cable. The thing that was great is you could add as many timers as you wanted, as long as you had the memory...I think I had 1 each of about half the standard apps, plus 10 count-down timers and about 20 of the (very flexible: daily, day of week, weekend, etc.) alarms. worked great.
GLADos as the home console?
difference is that this is not re-distributing like the cable company did. They took one source and then broadcast it out to many. this takes a single source and sends to a single person.
isn't this a variation on Cell architecture? except, no one could figure out how to write the OS and compiler to fully realize the goal of programs that could be farmed out by the ARM CPU to the special processors on one chip, let alone farm to multiple cell's over a network.
Now all we need is an app market for these :) I'd love to have a website I could go to to see what people have put on these and try them out....of course in a lot of cases you would only want to have one app on there at a time, but it'd be fun to swap out just using a download. Want it to be a file server? download the app. need a simple web database? download the app., need it to do X? see if there's already an app for it...
knowing how we got to the point we're at now with computers is, to me, one of the most important ways to advance them.
If you know what threads have been followed already you can figure out new threads to follow without wasting time re-following things that have already been done to the end and back. And of course there's always the good thing of not re-inventing the wheel without realizing it. Wheels need re-invented from time to time, but if you don't know it's already been done, you prolly won't add anything new to the process.
I see a lot of posts taking learning history as programming in basic or assembly and getting hands on with the early tech. That's good if you want to just program, maybe it even counts as history for that part of computers, but I'd think learning history means looking at how computers got to where we are now by finding out the radical shifts in thought and sometimes controversial ideas that landed us with this amazing technology we use every day now...
Serious question about the summary: the comment about the outer planets shielding us from collisions caught my attention. Does the Moon have any similar ability? does it help steer asteroids away from us due to it's size compared to Earth's?
I think the moon caused most of those conditions: stressing the Earth via tidal forces stirs up the core, breaks up the crust, evens out our wobble. The Moon caused us. The Moon seems to be awfully suspicious. so, 2 possibilities:
1) it like us, and we should worship it
2) aliens put it there and we just have to find the big rockets on the dark side that prove it and follow the manufacture's stickers on 'em to our creators.
only thing I can't figure out for 2) is if they made us, who made them? hmmm...
I got some good links and lots of suggestions. Thanks for the input!
Let's estimate a collection of about 400 movies. To be conservative, say stick one in the player 4 nights our of 5 weeknights (how often does an average person watch TV? couple of hours a night? substitute a movie instead). Add say 3 movies for the weekend. That's about 14 hours a week. 400 movies (at 2 hours each) is enough for 57 weeks or so. Just over a year. Doesn't seem like I'm dedicating my life to sitting in front of the tube then. Also take into account that putting on a movie doesn't mean stopping all else. The TV makes good background to other stuff. I just don't watch much live TV...
Did that, do that (go through the list every once in a while and get rid of the ones I don't watch anymore). The collections is not catching dust. I use the disks currently. After giving up cable (realizing that most of the stuff I actually watched I already own) it's now just easy to hit the collection when I want to watch something. Granted I don't go through all them every week, but I also don't buy more every week. only a few on the shelves sit there for "gotta have 'em all" urges and don't get played much.
Just to fill in some detail, I have the collection alphabetized on shelves, and yup, I can walk over and get them easy enough. Just trying to declutter the movies (and possibly games, CD-ROM's, blue ray, whatever) like I did the audio CD's a while back. I ripped the audio CD's to disk easy enough, and was looking to do same with others but ripping movies I kept running into little issues. Nothing that would make it impossible, just was hoping that since discs were common for several generations of media, there was something out already to just drop the discs into. The Sony player looked promising, but it's depreciated by Sony and got lack luster reviews. Sometimes, even with unlimited HD storage, it's just nice to have the disc available for any media...
It's not so much laziness as clutter. the bookshelves take up needed space and I'd hoped discs being common format, someone would have had a solution by now. Just hoping anyway...
The first hit I get is to the Kintronics page which seems data center oriented and I couldn't find the prices or ordering info beyond "contact us". I assume I missed part of the site...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pprk/ :)
back in the days of Palm computing, it was known that letting your portable devices run around from time to time on their own was good for their health...
No problem with my comprehension...those people LEARNED about computers on paper before using them...yes, they used computers later, but my point was learning computers can happen without the computer being there in front of them, and may be better.
Automation and technology is supposed to (in an ideal world) free us from "lower" work to allow us to work on creative or "higher" work. If that was the case, technology should be leading to more and more "higher" works such as art, science development, etc. But, all it's really doing is taking away the ability to make money. So what's the missing piece? Or, is the trick to go from doing the jobs technology takes over to getting the technology to make money for us? :)
If so, I'm all over investing in an army of worker robots to make money for me instead of giving all my money to colleges
"I'd like to see how you successfully teach pupils to use and program computers without using any."
If you can't think of how to do this, then you don't have much imagination. Most of the better programmers and users I know are ones that learned before computers were so common, and learned a lot "on paper" before getting to actually practice on the real computer.
And I'm curious if the school on the article is talking about putting computers in front of students, the teachers using computers or both...
I think the significant finding is how the layers are timed or sequenced....they knew that embryos develop in layers, they just didn't know how that was achieved. Now they do: layer after layer of the relevant DNA is exposed via a mechanical unwinding of the HOX genes.
I've always been irritated when an artist takes something back after giving to their audience. Lucas in particular was arrogant enough to think he still owned that story after not only gave it to audiences but sold it to them (i.e. they payed him money, and he STILL thinks it's only his). I don't think that once someone else see a work, they own it, but when you share a piece of art or creation, you've given a piece of it to them...you are now co-owner. Think of a sculpture: artists shows it to someone,they now have a piece of it to themselves. He may just show it but keep it, fine. If he sold it or gave it to someone does he really feel like he can just go reclaim it at any time? same token, the person who now has it cannot keep it or change it without feeling some responsibility to the creator...Yes they do that (both ways) but they are missing something.
Lucas is a punk to me just because he's still trying to control something AFTER he gave it to audiences. If he allowed the original versions to stay out there, not as big a deal. Yanking it back after giving it to us, very arrogant and immature. If he thinks he owns it to this level, should have just kept it in his basement locked up and never let an audience share it.
the end point of 3D printing is not all-one-piece items. It is intended to be able to create any structures or structures in one "print run" . Being able to create interesting one-piece structures is just a side effect of the building method that is showing to have some interesting potential.
So, you don't use it which means nobody does? My guess is if you don't use it it's because you don't understand how to use it, or the only way you talk to other machines over the network is via a browser.
I use it daily, not for troubleshooting or admin, but just for average use. Running a browser from one machine onto another is a great way to not have to worry about a locked down machine using a bad browser by default and I get to keep all my shortcuts and plug-ins as is no matter where I am. Yes, there are other ways to do the same, but this just works.
Are there some things that could be done better? probably. I'd love a smoother way of getting the xauth setup between two machines, and maybe some way of launching programs that is one-click (a program launcher on the remote machine that can be started easily from a shortcut?). But those kinds of thing have nothing to do with the X architecture itself, just user-level tweaks.
My biggest issue is I want X to be used more, not less. instead of the web browser interface for my router, I'd love an X-app that displays on my PC. And, too bad my phone can't send the contacts app to my desktop when I want to use my keyboard and mouse instead of the touchscreen. And let's not even get into how useful my TV would be if it had a built-in X server...
Along the same lines, does making them from one piece make them harder to fix when you crack one up? you'd have to replace the whole body I would imagine...
Noticed some interesting comments about Europe vs US attitude on nudity that may apply to violence....
some mentioned that Europe has a problem not with nudity but with sexuality. That seems to imply that in Europe an ad could get into trouble with fully-clothed models portraying something with sexual implications more than a model just showing the wrong part of their body: context matters.
Would discussion on what violence is allowable benefit from similar shades of distinction? example, someone being shot in a FPS is different from someone being torn in half in MK. But, I'd struggle to put into words what is different in objective terms. Do those categories/classifications already exist? Does someone need to define those before talking about it?
Right now what little" smarts" there are are only at the ends of the grid (the generation and consuming ends). and those "smarts" aren't so smart. even if they were, though, there's only so much you can do dynamicallyfrom the ends. All the generator can see are huge mostly predictable spikes in demand. And the consumer doesn't have much if any view in to what's available to pull from the grid. Right now the grid itself has no part. it's just a wire.
Smart grid put some intelligence and sensors in those wires along with some ability to use it at both end. detecting problems, quuicker reponse to load shifts and flexibility in what is plugged in ("caches" can be utilized, local generarion can be tapped easier, energy trading can be much improved, etc.).
Oh, and huge new drains like electric cars and such can be planned for instead of hoping we don't blow the system by having too many people charge their cars at the same time...