"Embedded in it are spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate 30 nanometres wide." Couldn't these spherical nanoparticles do serious damage if it settled in our lungs? I've heard that our lungs can't remove particles smaller than 30 micrometers wide.
No, it doesn't literally absorb gas.. It breaks NOx down with solar power and releases it as "carbon dioxide, water and calcium nitrate, which will also wash away."
OK, so maybe I was a bit harsh when saying that LOGO is horrible, but it's just an opinion. I just wanted to point out that LOGO isn't low level in the way that assembly is. From what I remember LOGO for DOS 2.0 didn't have for loops, while loops, arrays, and local variables. It wasn't object oriented, and recursion was waay too emphasized. Although I'm guessing newer versions improved on this. Even at v. 2.0 for DOS, LOGO was able to implement efficient tail recursion in a way that Java can't (or couldn't? not sure how it is with 1.5).
Still, LOGO was fun. I was able to make some graphics animation, 3D stuff, fractal stuff, file manager, and games.
LOGO is a horrible language. It tells you very little about how the PC works. You don't get to find out how many bits are required to store an integer, for example. LOGO doesn't have types. You can do weird things like "PRINT FIRST (1 = 1)" which prints "t" because that's the first letter in true, the value returned by (1 = 1). The benefit of learning assembly is that you have to know about how the memory and CPU works. You don't get the same advantages if you learned LOGO(which is an interpreted language) instead of Assembly. LOGO is primarily marketed towards educational institutions. It is hardly ever the language of choice in the world of business.
They should have used an open license font like Bitstream Vera. This would have given them the fixed spaced "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" for tabular data, "Bitstream Vera Serif" for paragraph and "Bitstream Vera Sans" for headers, captions, etc. Simply beautiful and open.:)
Ahh, simply beautiful and open... But are typography copyrightable? They sure seem to be free most of the time. Let's see here:
In the United States, font design is not copyrightable, but it is patentable if novel enough. Stone and Lucida are the only two patented typefaces, and this may not hold up in court.
Europe used to have the same "can't copyright typefaces" laws as the United States, but Germany (in 1981) and the UK (in 1989) have passed laws making typeface designs copyrightable. The UK law is even retroactive (!), so designs produced before 1989 are also copyrighted, if the copyrights wouldn't have already expired (the German one is not retroactive).
So yeah, France is pretty dependent on nuclear power. Germany, although at around 30%, is very anti-nuclear power right now. They are planning on discontinuing all nuclear power plants. Japan has been developing (shoddy) nuclear plants in recent years. Incidentally, they can make a nuke right away if the gov't wants to.
Also interesting are various countries' dependance on fossil fuel for electricity:
USA: 71.4% Germany: 61.8% Japan: 60% France: 8.2%
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Bollocks. The people commonly infected with viruses wouldn't even know what a file extension was, let alone the difference between an exe and a txt file.
Of course they wouldn't know, because the file extensions are hidden. More reason to stop hiding file extensions so they can know what they are.
On the other hand, if you don't hide the extension, then each of us here would be constantly dealing with dumb users who have renamed "Document1.doc" to "Report" (no extension). For 99% of users, hiding extensions is a good idea.
The amount of dumb users who would do that never amounted to more than 1%. Windows gives warnings if you try to change a file's extension anyway.
My school used to have an online newsgroup (accessible by pine) where students could trade used textbooks directly for free. I thought a website-based approach would attract more participants. However recently the newsgroup disappeared mysteriously...
The peer-to-peer solution Start a free online group at, e.g., groups.yahoo.com where people can advertise their used textbooks for free. Charge $0.00 middleman fee. Books are shipped over the sneaker transport system. A more advanced website could have a better user interface than a mailing list, but a mailing list is better than nothing.
The open source solution {Requires greater change in the system} Pressure instructors to use textbooks licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License only. A student assignment could be to contribute content to the textbook.
You understand that double precision floating point is 64 bits, right? And the grandparent post didn't mention anything about integers, right? I really don't see what the BS is that you're talking about.
As far as CRT monitor whines go, I found out what helps is to change the monitor resolution when it starts acting up. Most of the time, this reduces the whine a great deal. Once, though, one of my monitor's wouldn't get quieter... Next moment it was drawing all sorts of funky diagonal rainbow colored lines. I had to turn it in for repair, and it turned out it was a bad motherboard that was causing it. Flourescent lamps can be pretty bad too. Japan uses these more often than filament bulbs for lighting, but I think they use high quality ones so the noise's not as annoying.
var prompts = ['I am feeling animated!', 'I am feeling cheap!', 'I am feeling confused!', 'I am feeling lucky!', 'I am feeling nostalgic', 'I am feeling playful'];
Oh, I forgot to mention: the maglev in Osaka is at an amusement park... That's why it can be slow and still be profitable (people want to ride it for the priviledge).
Actually, there aren't that many overseas, none of them are long or cost-effective. Some amusement parks have it (Disney World's "Train of Tomorrow,"). IIRC there's one in Osaka, Japan, but it runs wicked slow due to safety concerns.
well, it seems like that takes care of it. standard measures were all that was needed in the past, so I can't imagine why there'd be a need for 3d scans.
Imagine combining customized virtual mannequin technology with retina scanning technology as seen in Minority Report... You see yourself in their ads, wearing their latest clothes.
Where is the outrage at jobs being lost to inter-state and inter-city free trade? Somehow I'm not convinced that the whole indian outsourcing fiasco here isn't strongly tied to nationalism and xenophobia.
agreed. my experiences with other devices have been the same (but haven't bought an ipod yet).
* Sony MD Player -- came with a remote, didn't use it. Ended up replacing it with better headphones for better sound (the earphones weren't unpluggable from the remote -- stupid design).
* Rio Volt MP3 CD Player -- came with a belt clip (which iPod mini comes with, btw), never used it, period. Just not my style! I'll probably have even less of a use for an arm band. Probably a life-saver for nudists though! lol.
* NTT DoCoMo cell phone -- came with the dock, but I ended up plugging wires directly into it. It was just more clunk to me.
Of course, this is all a matter of personal taste. I'd be a bit mad if I had to pay for these. If you're looking for an iPod pre-bundled with plenty of accessories, the 20GB iPod at $400 may seem just about right and it still has a way smaller form than its competition.
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The goddess was pronounced "neekay."
That reminds me..
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Japan sells* mini cigarette packs called "Hope." Ten cigs for about a buck (140 yen).
http://www.jti.co.jp/News/Release/95/No19/No19.
http://www.jti.co.jp/JTI/tobaccobrand/HPF.html
*Well technically the gov't owns only 1/3 of the company (JT) now.
"Embedded in it are spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate 30 nanometres wide."
Couldn't these spherical nanoparticles do serious damage if it settled in our lungs? I've heard that our lungs can't remove particles smaller than 30 micrometers wide.
No, it doesn't literally absorb gas.. It breaks NOx down with solar power and releases it as "carbon dioxide, water and calcium nitrate, which will also wash away."
OK, so maybe I was a bit harsh when saying that LOGO is horrible, but it's just an opinion. I just wanted to point out that LOGO isn't low level in the way that assembly is.
From what I remember LOGO for DOS 2.0 didn't have for loops, while loops, arrays, and local variables. It wasn't object oriented, and recursion was waay too emphasized. Although I'm guessing newer versions improved on this. Even at v. 2.0 for DOS, LOGO was able to implement efficient tail recursion in a way that Java can't (or couldn't? not sure how it is with 1.5).
Still, LOGO was fun. I was able to make some graphics animation, 3D stuff, fractal stuff, file manager, and games.
...and examples from the real world...
Heh, reminds me of Good Will Hunting...
LOGO is a horrible language. It tells you very little about how the PC works. You don't get to find out how many bits are required to store an integer, for example. LOGO doesn't have types. You can do weird things like "PRINT FIRST (1 = 1)" which prints "t" because that's the first letter in true, the value returned by (1 = 1). The benefit of learning assembly is that you have to know about how the memory and CPU works. You don't get the same advantages if you learned LOGO(which is an interpreted language) instead of Assembly.
LOGO is primarily marketed towards educational institutions. It is hardly ever the language of choice in the world of business.
According to the CIA World Factbook 2003, here are the nuclear power % of all electricity sources in each country:
France: 77.1%
Germany: 29.9%
Japan: 29.8%
USA: 20.7%
So yeah, France is pretty dependent on nuclear power. Germany, although at around 30%, is very anti-nuclear power right now. They are planning on discontinuing all nuclear power plants. Japan has been developing (shoddy) nuclear plants in recent years. Incidentally, they can make a nuke right away if the gov't wants to.
Also interesting are various countries' dependance on fossil fuel for electricity:
USA: 71.4%
Germany: 61.8%
Japan: 60%
France: 8.2%
Bollocks. The people commonly infected with viruses wouldn't even know what a file extension was, let alone the difference between an exe and a txt file.
Of course they wouldn't know, because the file extensions are hidden. More reason to stop hiding file extensions so they can know what they are.
On the other hand, if you don't hide the extension, then each of us here would be constantly dealing with dumb users who have renamed "Document1.doc" to "Report" (no extension). For 99% of users, hiding extensions is a good idea.
The amount of dumb users who would do that never amounted to more than 1%. Windows gives warnings if you try to change a file's extension anyway.
All kidding aside, my Rio Volt started to fall apart at the tiny screws. It's a weak-point in the structure that can easily become unfixable.
Speaking of Quizno's adverts, they've had an online flash ad involving these characters from rathergood.com. Seriously.
My school used to have an online newsgroup (accessible by pine) where students could trade used textbooks directly for free. I thought a website-based approach would attract more participants. However recently the newsgroup disappeared mysteriously...
The peer-to-peer solution
Start a free online group at, e.g., groups.yahoo.com where people can advertise their used textbooks for free. Charge $0.00 middleman fee. Books are shipped over the sneaker transport system. A more advanced website could have a better user interface than a mailing list, but a mailing list is better than nothing.
The open source solution
{Requires greater change in the system} Pressure instructors to use textbooks licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License only. A student assignment could be to contribute content to the textbook.
You understand that double precision floating point is 64 bits, right? And the grandparent post didn't mention anything about integers, right? I really don't see what the BS is that you're talking about.
As far as CRT monitor whines go, I found out what helps is to change the monitor resolution when it starts acting up. Most of the time, this reduces the whine a great deal. Once, though, one of my monitor's wouldn't get quieter... Next moment it was drawing all sorts of funky diagonal rainbow colored lines. I had to turn it in for repair, and it turned out it was a bad motherboard that was causing it. Flourescent lamps can be pretty bad too. Japan uses these more often than filament bulbs for lighting, but I think they use high quality ones so the noise's not as annoying.
They choose one at random with Javascript:
var prompts = ['I am feeling animated!', 'I am feeling cheap!', 'I am feeling confused!', 'I am feeling lucky!', 'I am feeling nostalgic', 'I am feeling playful'];
what about carbon nanotubes? are(n't) they strong enough?
Oh, I forgot to mention: the maglev in Osaka is at an amusement park... That's why it can be slow and still be profitable (people want to ride it for the priviledge).
Ha, but monorails aren't maglev.
Actually, there aren't that many overseas, none of them are long or cost-effective. Some amusement parks have it (Disney World's "Train of Tomorrow,"). IIRC there's one in Osaka, Japan, but it runs wicked slow due to safety concerns.
well, it seems like that takes care of it. standard measures were all that was needed in the past, so I can't imagine why there'd be a need for 3d scans.
Imagine combining customized virtual mannequin technology with retina scanning technology as seen in Minority Report... You see yourself in their ads, wearing their latest clothes.
Where is the outrage at jobs being lost to inter-state and inter-city free trade? Somehow I'm not convinced that the whole indian outsourcing fiasco here isn't strongly tied to nationalism and xenophobia.
agreed. my experiences with other devices have been the same (but haven't bought an ipod yet).
* Sony MD Player -- came with a remote, didn't use it. Ended up replacing it with better headphones for better sound (the earphones weren't unpluggable from the remote -- stupid design).
* Rio Volt MP3 CD Player -- came with a belt clip (which iPod mini comes with, btw), never used it, period. Just not my style! I'll probably have even less of a use for an arm band. Probably a life-saver for nudists though! lol.
* NTT DoCoMo cell phone -- came with the dock, but I ended up plugging wires directly into it. It was just more clunk to me.
Of course, this is all a matter of personal taste. I'd be a bit mad if I had to pay for these. If you're looking for an iPod pre-bundled with plenty of accessories, the 20GB iPod at $400 may seem just about right and it still has a way smaller form than its competition.