Plus there is STILL no good method for entering equations on computers
I recommend LyX, a front-end to latex. When I was in college I was able to take equation-heavy notes real-time in class. My notes usually looked much better than the professor's official class notes as well. LyX does have a learning curve, but you can always remap the keys to whatever you are used to.
Sure they do. I bike to work almost every day, even when it is snowing hard out and it is snowy/icy on the ground. You have to find a route that is as off-road as possible, and go through neighborhoods to avoid the busier main roads. The other thing is to live somewhere that has bike lanes for those times that you have to take main roads. About the only thing that has stopped me is bitter cold (below -10 F), and I just work from home those days. I wonder if heated gloves would work if they were hooked up to a rectifier and dynamo...
Correct, ciprofloxacin is effective at treating gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, and it's also effective at causing connective tissue damage. What I'd like to know is whether or not it can lead to connective tissue damage if administered topically. I had an inner ear infection in which I was prescribed ciprodex (ciprofloxacin + dexamethasone) and while I didn't seem to experience any connective tissue damage, I still wonder what the odds were.
You think that's bad... Try having a hospital you visited once start sending you bills for completely unrelated inpatient services and bizarre chemotherapy drugs. I had this happen once despite only going to that hospital once to have a mole examined. The hospital started sending the bills to my health insurance, who must have thought I was dying. It took six months to finally convince the hospital that I had never received the services and drugs they were billing me for. I'm thinking there must have been someone else with a similar name or SSN in the system that got confused with me. A real life Brazil experience for sure.
I would like to know what the U.S. contingency plan is for war with China. Look at almost any product in the U.S. today, and it is from China. If we declare war with them, do we suddenly have no more imported goods? This is not a scenario that I like to ponder.
We seem to experience negative aspects from both mainstream political ideologies in the US. For example, in the automotive industry there are things like the "jobs bank" where workers are paid to do more or less nothing. Then there are things like excess executive compensation, such as when the automotive company executives flew private jets to Congress to ask for a bailout. We need to free ourselves from these types of hindrances and allow innovation to happen on all fronts, lest we perish and be forgotten.
That is correct. Mark Tilden has been doing similarly cool walking robots (but mostly in analog!) for years now. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4DitOJdyA
I remember seeing a video of one of Mark Tilden's robots (or maybe it was one of Rodney Brooks) and he was able to bend a leg back and it would keep walking successfully with the remaining legs. The beautiful part was that there was no microcontroller involved - it was simple analog circuits replicating neuron functions. The class of robotics Tilden founded is called "BEAM robotics" - more information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics http://www.solarbotics.com/
I first read it in Byte Magazine, PC Magazine or PC Computing back in the early 90s. I don't have those magazines anymore so I linked to the MS website instead. Both answers are probably right, but it depends on who you ask.:^)
Perhaps by "modulations" they were referring to the short wavelengths of high frequency signals. For example, a 2.4 GHz signal has a wavelength of 12.491 cm, whereas a 100 MHz signal has a wavelength of nearly 3 meters. 2.4 GHz signals are much more readily absorbed by the body than 100 MHz signals because we are bags of mostly water. The measure for how much we absorb is called the specific absorption rate (SAR).
I always hated how the Windows 2000 startup screen said "Built on NT Technology", because "NT" itself stood for "New Technology". I guess it's just another case of RAS syndrome.
I've had to use a soldering iron to replace my iPod nano battery. Yes, I would prefer a removable battery, but more than that I prefer to have something that can be run over by a car twice and still play music.
The functionality of Resedit can be found in programs like Iconographer and HexEdit. Macsbug has been supplanted by the numerous debugging utilities included with XCode, included under/Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/, as well as command line utilities such as gdb.
So that reminds me, we all need to start wearing our multiple ties and chrome sunglasses so that they are in fashion by the time 2015 is here. And Nike, where are my power shoelaces?!
I don't have (nor have I ever had) a cellphone for many reasons. Privacy reasons are one. Horrible reception and random dropping calls are another. Price and mandatory two-year contracts are another. Never in the history of mankind have we paid so much to talk so little. I also don't like putting so strong of a transceiver right next to my head for extended periods of time.
I've had my car break down before, and I politely asked the first person I encountered if I could use their cellphone. They happily obliged and I was on my way. The world is very small these days. Even for the times it isn't, there are satellite phone networks like Iridium which provide global coverage. I would much rather have a satellite phone than a cell phone. There are many places in the U.S. I can think of where your car could break down and you (and everyone around you) would be completely without cell phone coverage. The cost of using a satellite phone is more (roughly $0.80-$1.20/min. these days, with no contract necessary) but you get solid coverage anywhere on the globe, including the ocean.
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Plus there is STILL no good method for entering equations on computers
I recommend LyX, a front-end to latex. When I was in college I was able to take equation-heavy notes real-time in class. My notes usually looked much better than the professor's official class notes as well. LyX does have a learning curve, but you can always remap the keys to whatever you are used to.
Um, no they don't.
Sure they do. I bike to work almost every day, even when it is snowing hard out and it is snowy/icy on the ground. You have to find a route that is as off-road as possible, and go through neighborhoods to avoid the busier main roads. The other thing is to live somewhere that has bike lanes for those times that you have to take main roads. About the only thing that has stopped me is bitter cold (below -10 F), and I just work from home those days. I wonder if heated gloves would work if they were hooked up to a rectifier and dynamo...
Correct, ciprofloxacin is effective at treating gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, and it's also effective at causing connective tissue damage. What I'd like to know is whether or not it can lead to connective tissue damage if administered topically. I had an inner ear infection in which I was prescribed ciprodex (ciprofloxacin + dexamethasone) and while I didn't seem to experience any connective tissue damage, I still wonder what the odds were.
Pay with cash... or gold coins perhaps? :^)
Seriously... bikes work, even in the snow. 53 miles per burrito, baby!
You think that's bad... Try having a hospital you visited once start sending you bills for completely unrelated inpatient services and bizarre chemotherapy drugs. I had this happen once despite only going to that hospital once to have a mole examined. The hospital started sending the bills to my health insurance, who must have thought I was dying. It took six months to finally convince the hospital that I had never received the services and drugs they were billing me for. I'm thinking there must have been someone else with a similar name or SSN in the system that got confused with me. A real life Brazil experience for sure.
I would like to know what the U.S. contingency plan is for war with China. Look at almost any product in the U.S. today, and it is from China. If we declare war with them, do we suddenly have no more imported goods? This is not a scenario that I like to ponder.
Whoa, I got a little carried away with the "2007"s there. :^)
This exact idea was first mentioned by me, circa 2007 right here on Slashdot in 2007.
That black hole in the video looks almost exactly like Giedi Prime from Dune...
No complaints there, although it will always be "Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!" to me, even if he did bite someone's ear off. :^)
We seem to experience negative aspects from both mainstream political ideologies in the US. For example, in the automotive industry there are things like the "jobs bank" where workers are paid to do more or less nothing. Then there are things like excess executive compensation, such as when the automotive company executives flew private jets to Congress to ask for a bailout. We need to free ourselves from these types of hindrances and allow innovation to happen on all fronts, lest we perish and be forgotten.
As much as I enjoyed StarCraft, the acronym "SC2" will always be reserved for Star Control II in my mind.
That is correct. Mark Tilden has been doing similarly cool walking robots (but mostly in analog!) for years now. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4DitOJdyA
I remember seeing a video of one of Mark Tilden's robots (or maybe it was one of Rodney Brooks) and he was able to bend a leg back and it would keep walking successfully with the remaining legs. The beautiful part was that there was no microcontroller involved - it was simple analog circuits replicating neuron functions. The class of robotics Tilden founded is called "BEAM robotics" - more information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics
http://www.solarbotics.com/
I first read it in Byte Magazine, PC Magazine or PC Computing back in the early 90s. I don't have those magazines anymore so I linked to the MS website instead. Both answers are probably right, but it depends on who you ask. :^)
Perhaps by "modulations" they were referring to the short wavelengths of high frequency signals. For example, a 2.4 GHz signal has a wavelength of 12.491 cm, whereas a 100 MHz signal has a wavelength of nearly 3 meters. 2.4 GHz signals are much more readily absorbed by the body than 100 MHz signals because we are bags of mostly water. The measure for how much we absorb is called the specific absorption rate (SAR).
I never listened to their marketing. I was quoting Microsoft's own Windows history webpage.
I always hated how the Windows 2000 startup screen said "Built on NT Technology", because "NT" itself stood for "New Technology". I guess it's just another case of RAS syndrome.
I've had to use a soldering iron to replace my iPod nano battery. Yes, I would prefer a removable battery, but more than that I prefer to have something that can be run over by a car twice and still play music.
The functionality of Resedit can be found in programs like Iconographer and HexEdit. Macsbug has been supplanted by the numerous debugging utilities included with XCode, included under /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/, as well as command line utilities such as gdb.
So that reminds me, we all need to start wearing our multiple ties and chrome sunglasses so that they are in fashion by the time 2015 is here. And Nike, where are my power shoelaces?!
Agreed. I also thought this had The Yes Men written all over it. :^)
Thanks for posting this update. I've always had respect for IronKey and that level of respect just went up a few notches.
I'll claim the money! Where do I pick it up?
I don't have (nor have I ever had) a cellphone for many reasons. Privacy reasons are one. Horrible reception and random dropping calls are another. Price and mandatory two-year contracts are another. Never in the history of mankind have we paid so much to talk so little. I also don't like putting so strong of a transceiver right next to my head for extended periods of time.
I've had my car break down before, and I politely asked the first person I encountered if I could use their cellphone. They happily obliged and I was on my way. The world is very small these days. Even for the times it isn't, there are satellite phone networks like Iridium which provide global coverage. I would much rather have a satellite phone than a cell phone. There are many places in the U.S. I can think of where your car could break down and you (and everyone around you) would be completely without cell phone coverage. The cost of using a satellite phone is more (roughly $0.80-$1.20/min. these days, with no contract necessary) but you get solid coverage anywhere on the globe, including the ocean.