Three generation better than ones "currently in use today." The ones they commonly use today are a couple generations old. Southwest Flight 812, which recently lost a bit of skin, was built in 1996. 737's in general started being built in 1968 and the technology hasn't changed that much.
Actually the technology has changed quite a bit. The newer generation 737's are made differently, albeit with the same undlerlying aluminium / spar / rivet technology as the older planes. The 787 is really a transformational aircraft - should Boeing actually quit shooting themselves in the foot and get the thing into production. The 787 does underscore the difficulty in bringing new technology into commercial aircraft (along with stupid MBA-think but that's another rant).
Actually, I think (as an MD) that reasonably advanced statistics should be required of any physician. Researcher or no. The vast majority of medical 'research' is utter crap because few people can get past a Student's T test. Since the research animals are complicated and poorly characterized (humans) you tend to look for results in a fog of competing processes and you are typically looking and underpowered studies. Then you end up reading typically overbroad, over confident 'results' sections. Even now, the big granting agencies are funding long term, expensive trials which are set up to be statistically underpowered or imbalanced.
You have to be able to look at a study and get a feeling for it's strengths and weaknesses before incorporating it into clinical practice. Can't do that unless you have some idea of statistics. I sure wish my understanding was better.
An enormous problem in Biology these days is that it's all encompassing. It is Math, Physics, Chemistry and Systematics and Ecology and this and that. Can't have everything. That said, most biological research these days requires more than a passing knowledge of statistics. Certainly the medical field would be better off if they tossed every active researcher out of the lab for a year and into an undergrad statistics course. Then made passing the course a requirement for getting back into the lab.
But all of those fields can take years to get even generalist appreciation of. It's really hard to cram all of that into a 4 or 5 year program and do the heavy lifting of lab work or research.
You forgot Autodesk. If you think Photoshop is expensive.....
That said, Autodesk doesn't seem to make it hard to pirate. You can just uninstall Maya and Mudbox on OS X and reinstall the 30 day trial. They offer great educational discounts (except that you have to be a real, live student).
You don't need 'the latest version of Photoshop' to put out a.tiff file or a.jpg. Even PS 7 will do that just fine (as will GIMP). If you want to bend your models arm in non anatomic positions with Puppetwarp, yeah, you'll need CS 5. However, there are many older ways to make impossible looking humans or whatever it is that you're planning on altering.
The whole rant seems to revolve around InDesign. The other CS programs (Dreamweaver, Illustrator, PS, and to some extent Flash) tend to be much more conservative.
Unless you're somewhere different from everybody else, we're not in the future yet. MOST books don't have an electronic equivalent. A library is not just for stocking best sellers. Until this changes (a bit further in the future), libraries will have to contend with the paper stuff.
Here, I'll give you another anecdote. My brother and I had despaired of ever getting out 80 year old mother to figure out email, facebook and all of the Usual Things. We've tried towers, laptops, Macs, stripped down Ubuntu to no avail. She'd get hung up in something or other requiring at least a login to the machine.
Got her an iPad. She figured it out. Now she's happily annotating a bunch of old family pictures that I've put up on Flickr. Even through the sucky on screen keyboard. She doesn't care, she's not interested in speed or productivity. It Just Works. If she forgets to plug in for a day or so, nothing bad happens. In fact, nothing bad ever happens.
That's what iPads do. And actually quite a lot more. Life is not Eclipse or Crysis.
I know Sony has stores and Gateway tried them the last decade, but not sure what became of them.
Yeah, go find a Sony store. If you can find one, go into it. Nobody there. At University Village in Seattle there is both an Apple Store and a Sony store. This is a trendy up market shopping center with sushi bars, wine bars, plants and nice sidewalks.
The last time I was there, there was no recent Jesus product. I think the iPhone 3GS had been out for a while and it was before iPhone 4 and iPad time.
The store was moderately crowded. The Sony store was completely empty. Oopsie.
Ah, that's not the issue: Yes, you all could code an application to create a flyer. Can Enderandrew's mom do that? Or run GIMP? Or even have the weird thought processes that would lead one to believe that Gimp wasn't some odd pejorative comment?
People aren't buying tablets from Apple because they have a need for a tablet, or because it fits a niche that their otehr computing platforms lack, they are buying because its Apple and a new thing
Not quite. Certainly there is some truth to this, but not much. Most of the people buying iPads would never buy a 'real' computer. They're too complicated. They want an appliance. Like the toaster (NOT the one you've ported Debian too). Real computers are too complex. Too annoying. Too high maintenance. iPads are none of those things.
"We" think they're too brain dead and limited (I don't have one, can't figure out exactly what I would do with it). But Mr. Jobs and Mr. Baller (and Linus and half of China) already have their hooks in me. I have cables and computers in my junk room that haven't seen the light of day in decades. I'm not in the iPad demographic. My mom is.
Not really (it was a favorite line of a surgery attending I worked with in medical school). It's more gallows humor than anything but it's true. The vast majority of time we just mitigate pollution by 'diluting' it in either time and / or space. Remember, Parcelsus figured this out in the 17th century:
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.
The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Basically, the concentration does matter. So dilution works. Now, what we are coming up with in the Anthropocene is that we've run out of diluent. And it's gonna come back and bite us in our shiny metal butts. But the principle is sound.
Apple aren't just going after the existing demographic of computer users, they are expanding the market to include everybody else.
All of you iPad haters need to print this out in 100 point Comic Sans and past it on your bedroom wall. This is the entire enchilada, the whole point, the real deal. Until you come to grips with this you will be forever confused and unhappy.
See the light, folks. It's a giant flashlight app.
Hagfish have three accessory hearts, no cerebrum or cerebellum, no jaws or stomach, and will "sneeze" when their nostrils clog with their own slime. .
I think that Berkeley mixed up some pages on their website. They're supposedly describing Hagfish. The description, however, seems to fit a US Senator better.
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We've got > 2E6 UIDs. Nothing is that obvious.
I think the Time Cube guy got loose again.
I wonder who shows up at your door when you get really good?
Your mother. "In to bed, buster. Now!"
Everybody who thinks this is a Russian water-tentacle, raise their hand.
Sounds like Ender's Game to me. How would the player know if the data they are being fed is simulated or gathered from actual sensors?
Are we at war with anyone with submarines this week? Didn't get that memo.
Three generation better than ones "currently in use today." The ones they commonly use today are a couple generations old. Southwest Flight 812, which recently lost a bit of skin, was built in 1996. 737's in general started being built in 1968 and the technology hasn't changed that much.
Actually the technology has changed quite a bit. The newer generation 737's are made differently, albeit with the same undlerlying aluminium / spar / rivet technology as the older planes. The 787 is really a transformational aircraft - should Boeing actually quit shooting themselves in the foot and get the thing into production. The 787 does underscore the difficulty in bringing new technology into commercial aircraft (along with stupid MBA-think but that's another rant).
When I look up and see the Moon, I see a large amount of energy that soon could be within Humanities reach.
That's the sun. Daylight. An interesting concept. You might try it some time.
Three of them will be borderline autistic and a fourth carries live grenades in his jacket.
Damnit! I knew I should have gone into math instead of biology. Live grenades. Cool. We just get thermite.
Actually, I think (as an MD) that reasonably advanced statistics should be required of any physician. Researcher or no. The vast majority of medical 'research' is utter crap because few people can get past a Student's T test. Since the research animals are complicated and poorly characterized (humans) you tend to look for results in a fog of competing processes and you are typically looking and underpowered studies. Then you end up reading typically overbroad, over confident 'results' sections. Even now, the big granting agencies are funding long term, expensive trials which are set up to be statistically underpowered or imbalanced.
You have to be able to look at a study and get a feeling for it's strengths and weaknesses before incorporating it into clinical practice. Can't do that unless you have some idea of statistics. I sure wish my understanding was better.
An enormous problem in Biology these days is that it's all encompassing. It is Math, Physics, Chemistry and Systematics and Ecology and this and that. Can't have everything. That said, most biological research these days requires more than a passing knowledge of statistics. Certainly the medical field would be better off if they tossed every active researcher out of the lab for a year and into an undergrad statistics course. Then made passing the course a requirement for getting back into the lab.
But all of those fields can take years to get even generalist appreciation of. It's really hard to cram all of that into a 4 or 5 year program and do the heavy lifting of lab work or research.
You forgot Autodesk. If you think Photoshop is expensive.....
That said, Autodesk doesn't seem to make it hard to pirate. You can just uninstall Maya and Mudbox on OS X and reinstall the 30 day trial. They offer great educational discounts (except that you have to be a real, live student).
You don't need 'the latest version of Photoshop' to put out a .tiff file or a .jpg. Even PS 7 will do that just fine (as will GIMP). If you want to bend your models arm in non anatomic positions with Puppetwarp, yeah, you'll need CS 5. However, there are many older ways to make impossible looking humans or whatever it is that you're planning on altering.
The whole rant seems to revolve around InDesign. The other CS programs (Dreamweaver, Illustrator, PS, and to some extent Flash) tend to be much more conservative.
Unless you're somewhere different from everybody else, we're not in the future yet. MOST books don't have an electronic equivalent. A library is not just for stocking best sellers. Until this changes (a bit further in the future), libraries will have to contend with the paper stuff.
Here, I'll give you another anecdote. My brother and I had despaired of ever getting out 80 year old mother to figure out email, facebook and all of the Usual Things. We've tried towers, laptops, Macs, stripped down Ubuntu to no avail. She'd get hung up in something or other requiring at least a login to the machine.
Got her an iPad. She figured it out. Now she's happily annotating a bunch of old family pictures that I've put up on Flickr. Even through the sucky on screen keyboard. She doesn't care, she's not interested in speed or productivity. It Just Works. If she forgets to plug in for a day or so, nothing bad happens. In fact, nothing bad ever happens.
That's what iPads do. And actually quite a lot more. Life is not Eclipse or Crysis.
My four year old MacPro wants to beat up your iPhone.
I know Sony has stores and Gateway tried them the last decade, but not sure what became of them.
Yeah, go find a Sony store. If you can find one, go into it. Nobody there. At University Village in Seattle there is both an Apple Store and a Sony store. This is a trendy up market shopping center with sushi bars, wine bars, plants and nice sidewalks.
The last time I was there, there was no recent Jesus product. I think the iPhone 3GS had been out for a while and it was before iPhone 4 and iPad time.
The store was moderately crowded. The Sony store was completely empty. Oopsie.
Ah, that's not the issue: Yes, you all could code an application to create a flyer. Can Enderandrew's mom do that? Or run GIMP? Or even have the weird thought processes that would lead one to believe that Gimp wasn't some odd pejorative comment?
OUT OF THE BASEMENT. ALL OF YOU!
People aren't buying tablets from Apple because they have a need for a tablet, or because it fits a niche that their otehr computing platforms lack, they are buying because its Apple and a new thing
Not quite. Certainly there is some truth to this, but not much. Most of the people buying iPads would never buy a 'real' computer. They're too complicated. They want an appliance. Like the toaster (NOT the one you've ported Debian too). Real computers are too complex. Too annoying. Too high maintenance. iPads are none of those things.
"We" think they're too brain dead and limited (I don't have one, can't figure out exactly what I would do with it). But Mr. Jobs and Mr. Baller (and Linus and half of China) already have their hooks in me. I have cables and computers in my junk room that haven't seen the light of day in decades. I'm not in the iPad demographic. My mom is.
Are you trying to be facetious?
Not really (it was a favorite line of a surgery attending I worked with in medical school). It's more gallows humor than anything but it's true. The vast majority of time we just mitigate pollution by 'diluting' it in either time and / or space. Remember, Parcelsus figured this out in the 17th century:
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.
The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Basically, the concentration does matter. So dilution works. Now, what we are coming up with in the Anthropocene is that we've run out of diluent. And it's gonna come back and bite us in our shiny metal butts. But the principle is sound.
Goddamnit Slashdot. When will you allow edits?
/past/paste
Apple aren't just going after the existing demographic of computer users, they are expanding the market to include everybody else.
All of you iPad haters need to print this out in 100 point Comic Sans and past it on your bedroom wall. This is the entire enchilada, the whole point, the real deal. Until you come to grips with this you will be forever confused and unhappy.
See the light, folks. It's a giant flashlight app.
Well, I guess we'll have to disinter Abraham Maslow and get him up to speed with the 21st Century. Maybe he and Steve Jobs could have a nice chat.
They want to "do stuff" ... its just something annoying, tedious, and expensive that you have to do before you have fun.
Oh, I like foreplay? Right?
(No, I didn't really mean that.)
Not to worry. If robots get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee.
That ought to do them in.
(apologies to somebody)
Hagfish have three accessory hearts, no cerebrum or cerebellum, no jaws or stomach, and will "sneeze" when their nostrils clog with their own slime. .
I think that Berkeley mixed up some pages on their website. They're supposedly describing Hagfish. The description, however, seems to fit a US Senator better.