Put it on Android. There are plenty of keyboards on sale that work with Android tablets, including folding and silicon rollable keyboards.
Put another way, would you invest in Microsoft Office now if it was spun off as a separate company? Not so sure if its growth prospects are so good considering competitors just get better and better.
There must be another direction for MS to grow besides bloat and FUD. Or is it that they just can't hack the 21st?
The system never asks pedestrians when they will arrive, so cars will get right of way and crosswalk timing will become shorter and less predictable. Also the system probably cannot identify a car stuck in the intersection.. sounds like it lowers safety in order to reduce gasoline usage. If you want to change average red light timing based on real traffic flow you can do it without installing machinery into cars themselves and overriding the traffic lights on demand.
It seems that if you type in a long looooooooooool to google then it will only give you videos with that exact number of o's. Or at least, it shows search results from long looooooooolz to short looolz
This is getting dumb. - We need scientific notation for lol, lulz, etc. like lol^50, lulz^150, etc. it's just not elegant now. - We need a way to tell google to show ALL of them, funniest first. Google: video lol^50 to lol^40 desc
Otherwise what's the point of encoding video this way. - Diminishing returns... and yet Google can't search beyond around 130 o's. I calculate the funniest thousand videos or so are locked away from us in the long tail beyond google's search capability!
Google: looooooooool video
10 o's: 875,000 results 20 o's: 209,000 30 o's: 60,900 40 o's: 31,200 50 o's: 10,600 60 o's: 5,220 70 o's: 2,790 100 o's: 1,830 120 o's: 728 unfortunately many more than this and the word is too long and not allowed.
Seriously. I was recently looking to install a firewall on my HTC Evo 4G. The apps I found all had tons of useless crap and the firewall portion requires root. I don't want to root my device since I get no support anymore then. In fact I submitted a bug (.Mail folder redownloads all attachments until >1GB in size) and they tried to weasle out when they thought it was rooted.
I had some hopes for Moxie Marlinspike's WhisperMonitor.. not sure if it requires root but probably does. I can't tell because Twitter has frozen downloads.. and now I am wondering if they are touching his code. - I want Android to have an open app like Little Snitch on Mac, or iptables based firewalls, to monitor ingoing and outgoing access by application and disallow certain ones. WhisperMonitor looks good. - I want Android to be able to control what applications can do on my phone, including what files they can touch. The current permissions you choose upon download are really a joke. I feel like random apps are free to play havoc with my files and net connection.
When Microsoft does it, It's A Trap. When Apple does it, "It's a Walled Garden" which sounds positive in the sense of perhaps being more secure or promoting higher quality.
And it's true. Apple looking at the source code of apps sold on its store make me feel safer. I wouldn't be looking for a firewall for my iPhone as quickly as I am now for my HTC. And Apple makes good products; I love my MacBook Pro. An iPad is a useful device.
But look at what happens with iTunes and music. How do you share iTunes purchases made by two family members in a family with more than five PCs, iPhones and iPads? I'm not sure I solved that question on winter vacation for my own family. I am not aware if Apple does this, but I am sure I don't want the same thing to happen for books or for it even to be possible.
Do you want books to be redefined as proprietary bits of code? How do you make libraries? The scheme is designed to make another Walled Garden. It is not "just a proprietary platform, they are honest about it." It is in fact a spearhead aimed at students under the guise of "lower priced textbooks" while requiring the use of expensive technology and purchase through them alone. So it is the opposite of Open Courseware a la MIT.
In other words, Apple could pay professors to write books for their Walled Garden but they are not contributing to general education due to artificial limitations on ability to sell and distribute them. Apple is making most of their money now not by making tools but by controlling sales and distribution. I feel it is highly inappropriate for the manufacturer of my computer to attempt to tell me where and how I can sell products I make with it.
Yes, Apple will use this to draw authors and publishers to their Walled Garden. The combination of a proprietary format, a closed storefront, and a closed platform will still be enticing based on simple economics - it may be easiest to sell there. As titles accumulate at lower prices than for printed books, it will look better and better regardless of content quality or accessibility in terms of academic freedom. It might have a good effect in terms of lightening the economic burden on students and making it easier to carry books around.
But No, it is not acceptable to paint this as being altruistic or as supporting scholarship. It is not just a proprietary format and free tool. It also includes poisonous restrictions on what you do with the creations. It is very clearly an attempt to corner the publishing market and to poison publications from the point of authorship by making it difficult or illegal to stray from their store. In particular there are many schools that are spending huge amounts of money to introduce iPads. That books could be produced for these devices and not be available to students who do not have iPads is neither ethical nor to be allowed. I believe there is a huge danger that a company which is making billions upon billions of dollars through sales of music copyright could destroy open scholarship by attempting to roll over the next closest market it has not yet occupied, which is academic publishing: an industry which has a strong impact on how the next generation thinks.
It is said the most amazing discoveries come from a scientist saying "gee that's funny..."
By accidentally producing this very cool new material they have according to the abstract made the first electron microscopy of glass, allowed by this very thin layer being supported by but not bonded to the underlying graphite. And from the amazing picture they took, which amazingly resembles drawings made by a glass theorist 80 years ago, they were able to make calculations showing that the weak van der waals force is what's keeping this thing stable.
It is a totally awesome thing they found and probably gives them whole new ideas about how to grow thin 2d structures. Just a week ago there was another bit of news about awesome 2d ice channels in graphite that open and close to keep helium from going through them. Sounds like there are tons of totally awesome things that are possible in these crenulated 2d realms and graphite is helping us discover them.
Perhaps someone else here can theorize about what it all means.
Depends on where you live. Where I live there are a lot of used games stores. There is also a big chain of used book stores making enough money to pay for major downtown floorspace. If you think of games as books, i.e. cultural media products, then when these guys are doing is unconscionable. They really owe the purchaser a perpetually redeemable and transferable license plus very clear explanation outside the box of what they are doing. Otherwise they are just being tricky and forcing a sketchy business plan on dupes with in-box EULA. Luckily I never have and hopefully never will purchase one of their products.
The researchers found that among all intelligent sexually reproducing species in the galaxy, every single one had a list of sexual innuendoes related to black holes.
One problem with English word passwords. They can be very easily spoken. This means if you vocalize while you type, or if the system accepts voice input, it will be very easy to lose your security and for people to share the information vocally. Since as other posters note it is low entropy if your CPU understands English.
I am so glad I recommended Crashplan instead of Carbonite to my Mom. I got Crashplan too.
The good thing about Crashplan being that it also gives you a free client to duplicate backup to a hard disk you have networked somewhere or a friend's computer. Oh and they are "unlimited backup".
From what I can tell of their character, I doubt Crashplan would ever, ever do what Carbonite did.
For those who didn't TFA, some guy trying to be educational or humorous is reaching to convert energy to mass via e=mc^2 and say that's a significant amount of mass being used to maintain an electron in place to represent a "1" bit.
What about the weight of the energy that was stored in the battery's chemical compound and was used to power the device to download the ebook? Part is dissipated as heat and light emission. So is this scientist assuming a perfect battery, a perfect reversible computational device, and an ESP-driven interface with no visual display? Those photons are heavy too..
What I'm saying is the memory chip is not isolated from its imperfect power source and CPU, and the bits do not magically appear they have to be calculated. Besides which, all this weight is surely dwarfed by the weight of the atoms being rubbed off the device by finger gestures. And lint.
Greenpeace Japan just came out with a report on supermarkets a couple days ago and they are pro-consumer. They might have some info. Generally the radiation went over Tokyo and landed in Shizuoka destroying the green tea crop. There are a couple hotspots though the main one I think is some idiot who was storing bottles of radioactive water. I doubt your gutter is a problem but then again you could clean it out.. The main issue for you is that for infants, extremely slight contamination of Tokyo water, shellfish and produce from Chiba/Ibaraki/Miyagi/Fukushima are the main issues I think. So here's what you do. Don't ask slashdot. Ask some experts and if possible ones in Tokyo. My guess is that by not buying things from those areas, and giving your infant and wife bottled water you are okay but don't listen to me. Best, Matt R.
There was a similar device in a sci-fi novel I read some decades ago, I forget the name but it might possibly have been California Dreamtime. Anyway, an assassin (bad guy) equipped with super advanced milspec tools is stalking someone and has a sonar device on his belt and contact lens displays. I wonder if sonar, or perhaps a laser scanner (as typically available for robots, but at microwave or terahertz frequencies) wouldn't be better than radar.
You mean like Vadim Lopatin's GPL Cool Reader does for RTF files on Android? Extremely useful app. Market link. It even keeps track of what page you were on last time you read the file. By the way I downloaded Opera for Android but Android's built in browser also adjusts the divs to make one column. Reflowing layout is what HTML is supposed to be about. I don't get where there is a need to patent this at all. Obvious software is obvious.
I'm a layman but having read about the stroke victim in Antarctica I got curious about the application of aerospace technology to emergency transport, rescue, communications, observations, and whether focus on these issues could help attract funding to civilian engineering teams.
For example, it is apparently 5430km from Wellington, NZ to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and more like 6000km from Australia. What would it take (team, cost, time, technology) to build an emergency aid rocket, or rocket-assisted aircraft that could be set on stand-by to deliver for example a medicine, part or surgical tool to the Pole Station? Since the South Pole is not actually west of anywhere you can't take advantage of the Earth's rotation. Is it even possible to reach the Pole with a suborbital vehicle? If it was something like a scaled up, navigable version of your current rocket, what kind of stresses, temperatures would the payload experience (would medicine have to be kept warm? would anything mechanical get warped by the vibration/shock?)
Thank you very much for any other thoughts you may have on the subject. I figure you're one of the few guys who could imagine this kind of thing. By the way, you rock!
Okay I recently have been wondering why doesn't Google Search on my HTC also search my phone and sdcard which is kinda important when you get into many gigs each.
That said, what you are talking about is what the Northern Light search engine used to do, clustering results quite successfully IIRC into folders. Also had a very nice design. And it would search the Internet, news, and thousands of publications in databases. http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/nlight/review.html
This page also says:
Northern Light also offers usgovsearch as a separate service. In conjunction with NTIS, Northern Light introduced usgovsearch for searching U.S. federal government Web sites, the NTIS bibliographic database, and Northern Light's Special Collections. Free searching was initially available to public libraries, K-12 public school libraries, and depository libraries. Otherwise a daily, monthly, or annual charge was required for access to the service. The government Web sites included in this service went well beyond the simple limiting of a search to.gov and.mil top level domains available in the Power Search on regular Northern Light. As of Dec. 2001, the NTIS database was no longer available from usgovsearch.
If you quietly glance out the corner of your eye, you might glimpse the most successful company in the nation floundering, losing its guts, for want of the vision of a charismatic individual.
The China Airlines crash in Nagoya, Japan was due to the robot pilot fighting the human pilot which led to an uncontrollable roller coaster. You could say human error but in reality, something hard for a human to deal with is I think a design error. This is why I personally would like to wait and see how the robot and human pilots work together in many situations for a while rather than jump on the first 787 I can.
I would like to know how it is superior in terms of safety and performance, not in terms of the passenger cabin. For example the flight that killed 100 of Poland's top people in fog not too long ago was probably due to the president ordering a dangerous flight due to emotional reasons. But I would like to know if a 787 would have been able to save them (I don't know maybe it has better sensors or something?) Anyway bigger and more comfortable are not the most important things about a plane, my $0.02
Can't understand how anybody can post snarky troll crap at all. Did you know there are over 30 million people with HIV and 1 million are in the U.S., and it's apparently accelerating maybe?
These researchers probably deserve the nobel and the medal of honor. Here's hoping that something amazing comes out of this.
Of course the tangent everyone will want to know about is this cholesterol film around the virus they are disrupting.. and a naive question about whether there is something simple that can be done to reduce this cholesterol and weaken the virus' immune disruption activity, before waiting years for the real thing.
I always kept a huge plastic box on top of the fridge. It held a full kilometer of ethernet, hubs, a couple routers, power blocks, testing apparatus, crossovers, and doodads, including a long spool of cool flat ribbon type ethernet which I never used (no rugs). The problem with cables is they always spaghettify. Like all the extra computers. Too many. I think I almost never had a use for the cable box and extra pcsand after much getting slapped around a little finally agreed to part ways with them in my last move. That was a very tough decision but decided too many cables needed to be recycled.
As for ties, only used twisties (like on bread) and once upon a time plastic ties. I had a beautiful thick sky blue Swedish designed spiral thingy that could hold together a bunch of cables but it was so pretty I only used it for one desk and then kept it unsullied in a box..!
So is the future of this digging gold or writing term papers for athletic scholars? I'd think most useful would be to hire PhDs or maybe sysadmins who are very well studied but live in places where a little money goes a long way in terms of standard of living. You could even extrapolate this to allow someone in a cosmopolitan area to hire a colleague who has moved into the boondocks. No API for that yet though.. and APIs make people interchangeable which is a problem. Dooms this system to low grade jobs and low grade personnel perhaps.
Alan Kay, 1972 looks like a kindle or an ipad with onscreen keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook Actually a popular encyclopedia we had in my house around 30 years ago had a yearly supplement called year book or world book I think. It had a special feature showing Smalltalk running on a Dynabook - IIRC a tablet without a keyboard showing. You had sprites, like tiny triangles, and you could program them in Smalltalk like a logo turtle but it seemed even more sophisticated. This totally fired my imagination as a young kid, I would have dreams about it and it got me into computers (though not sure if it was the first contact with them since I took a course in fortran on keypunch machines too around then). Incidentally this article from Jan. 2010 says: In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke describes something called a "Newspad" (a foolscap-sized device), which one of the novel’s central characters, Heywood Floyd, “plugs into the ship's information circuit and scans the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.”
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Put it on Android. There are plenty of keyboards on sale that work with Android tablets, including folding and silicon rollable keyboards.
Put another way, would you invest in Microsoft Office now if it was spun off as a separate company?
Not so sure if its growth prospects are so good considering competitors just get better and better.
There must be another direction for MS to grow besides bloat and FUD. Or is it that they just can't hack the 21st?
The system never asks pedestrians when they will arrive, so cars will get right of way and crosswalk timing will become shorter and less predictable. Also the system probably cannot identify a car stuck in the intersection.. sounds like it lowers safety in order to reduce gasoline usage. If you want to change average red light timing based on real traffic flow you can do it without installing machinery into cars themselves and overriding the traffic lights on demand.
"So if you want to watch funnier videos.."
It seems that if you type in a long looooooooooool to google then it will only give you videos with that exact number of o's.
Or at least, it shows search results from long looooooooolz to short looolz
This is getting dumb.
- We need scientific notation for lol, lulz, etc. like lol^50, lulz^150, etc. it's just not elegant now.
- We need a way to tell google to show ALL of them, funniest first. Google: video lol^50 to lol^40 desc
Otherwise what's the point of encoding video this way.
- Diminishing returns... and yet Google can't search beyond around 130 o's.
I calculate the funniest thousand videos or so are locked away from us in the long tail beyond google's search capability!
Google: looooooooool video
10 o's: 875,000 results
20 o's: 209,000
30 o's: 60,900
40 o's: 31,200
50 o's: 10,600
60 o's: 5,220
70 o's: 2,790
100 o's: 1,830
120 o's: 728
unfortunately many more than this and the word is too long and not allowed.
Seriously. I was recently looking to install a firewall on my HTC Evo 4G. The apps I found all had tons of useless crap and the firewall portion requires root. I don't want to root my device since I get no support anymore then. In fact I submitted a bug (.Mail folder redownloads all attachments until >1GB in size) and they tried to weasle out when they thought it was rooted.
I had some hopes for Moxie Marlinspike's WhisperMonitor.. not sure if it requires root but probably does. I can't tell because Twitter has frozen downloads.. and now I am wondering if they are touching his code.
- I want Android to have an open app like Little Snitch on Mac, or iptables based firewalls, to monitor ingoing and outgoing access by application and disallow certain ones. WhisperMonitor looks good.
- I want Android to be able to control what applications can do on my phone, including what files they can touch. The current permissions you choose upon download are really a joke. I feel like random apps are free to play havoc with my files and net connection.
> What's there to complain about?
When Microsoft does it, It's A Trap. When Apple does it, "It's a Walled Garden" which sounds positive in the sense of perhaps being more secure or promoting higher quality.
And it's true. Apple looking at the source code of apps sold on its store make me feel safer. I wouldn't be looking for a firewall for my iPhone as quickly as I am now for my HTC. And Apple makes good products; I love my MacBook Pro. An iPad is a useful device.
But look at what happens with iTunes and music. How do you share iTunes purchases made by two family members in a family with more than five PCs, iPhones and iPads? I'm not sure I solved that question on winter vacation for my own family.
I am not aware if Apple does this, but I am sure I don't want the same thing to happen for books or for it even to be possible.
Do you want books to be redefined as proprietary bits of code? How do you make libraries?
The scheme is designed to make another Walled Garden. It is not "just a proprietary platform, they are honest about it." It is in fact a spearhead aimed at students under the guise of "lower priced textbooks" while requiring the use of expensive technology and purchase through them alone. So it is the opposite of Open Courseware a la MIT.
In other words, Apple could pay professors to write books for their Walled Garden but they are not contributing to general education due to artificial limitations on ability to sell and distribute them. Apple is making most of their money now not by making tools but by controlling sales and distribution. I feel it is highly inappropriate for the manufacturer of my computer to attempt to tell me where and how I can sell products I make with it.
Yes, Apple will use this to draw authors and publishers to their Walled Garden. The combination of a proprietary format, a closed storefront, and a closed platform will still be enticing based on simple economics - it may be easiest to sell there. As titles accumulate at lower prices than for printed books, it will look better and better regardless of content quality or accessibility in terms of academic freedom. It might have a good effect in terms of lightening the economic burden on students and making it easier to carry books around.
But No, it is not acceptable to paint this as being altruistic or as supporting scholarship. It is not just a proprietary format and free tool. It also includes poisonous restrictions on what you do with the creations. It is very clearly an attempt to corner the publishing market and to poison publications from the point of authorship by making it difficult or illegal to stray from their store. In particular there are many schools that are spending huge amounts of money to introduce iPads. That books could be produced for these devices and not be available to students who do not have iPads is neither ethical nor to be allowed. I believe there is a huge danger that a company which is making billions upon billions of dollars through sales of music copyright could destroy open scholarship by attempting to roll over the next closest market it has not yet occupied, which is academic publishing: an industry which has a strong impact on how the next generation thinks.
It is said the most amazing discoveries come from a scientist saying "gee that's funny..."
By accidentally producing this very cool new material they have according to the abstract made the first electron microscopy of glass, allowed by this very thin layer being supported by but not bonded to the underlying graphite. And from the amazing picture they took, which amazingly resembles drawings made by a glass theorist 80 years ago, they were able to make calculations showing that the weak van der waals force is what's keeping this thing stable.
It is a totally awesome thing they found and probably gives them whole new ideas about how to grow thin 2d structures. Just a week ago there was another bit of news about awesome 2d ice channels in graphite that open and close to keep helium from going through them. Sounds like there are tons of totally awesome things that are possible in these crenulated 2d realms and graphite is helping us discover them.
Perhaps someone else here can theorize about what it all means.
Depends on where you live. Where I live there are a lot of used games stores. There is also a big chain of used book stores making enough money to pay for major downtown floorspace. If you think of games as books, i.e. cultural media products, then when these guys are doing is unconscionable. They really owe the purchaser a perpetually redeemable and transferable license plus very clear explanation outside the box of what they are doing. Otherwise they are just being tricky and forcing a sketchy business plan on dupes with in-box EULA. Luckily I never have and hopefully never will purchase one of their products.
The researchers found that among all intelligent sexually reproducing species in the galaxy, every single one had a list of sexual innuendoes related to black holes.
One problem with English word passwords. They can be very easily spoken.
This means if you vocalize while you type, or if the system accepts voice input, it will be very easy to lose your security and for people to share the information vocally. Since as other posters note it is low entropy if your CPU understands English.
I am so glad I recommended Crashplan instead of Carbonite to my Mom. I got Crashplan too.
The good thing about Crashplan being that it also gives you a free client to duplicate backup to a hard disk you have networked somewhere or a friend's computer. Oh and they are "unlimited backup".
From what I can tell of their character, I doubt Crashplan would ever, ever do what Carbonite did.
For those who didn't TFA, some guy trying to be educational or humorous is reaching to convert energy to mass via e=mc^2 and say that's a significant amount of mass being used to maintain an electron in place to represent a "1" bit.
What about the weight of the energy that was stored in the battery's chemical compound and was used to power the device to download the ebook? Part is dissipated as heat and light emission. So is this scientist assuming a perfect battery, a perfect reversible computational device, and an ESP-driven interface with no visual display? Those photons are heavy too..
What I'm saying is the memory chip is not isolated from its imperfect power source and CPU, and the bits do not magically appear they have to be calculated. Besides which, all this weight is surely dwarfed by the weight of the atoms being rubbed off the device by finger gestures. And lint.
Greenpeace Japan just came out with a report on supermarkets a couple days ago and they are pro-consumer.
They might have some info.
Generally the radiation went over Tokyo and landed in Shizuoka destroying the green tea crop.
There are a couple hotspots though the main one I think is some idiot who was storing bottles of radioactive water.
I doubt your gutter is a problem but then again you could clean it out..
The main issue for you is that for infants, extremely slight contamination of Tokyo water, shellfish and produce from Chiba/Ibaraki/Miyagi/Fukushima are the main issues I think. So here's what you do. Don't ask slashdot. Ask some experts and if possible ones in Tokyo.
My guess is that by not buying things from those areas, and giving your infant and wife bottled water you are okay but don't listen to me.
Best,
Matt R.
There was a similar device in a sci-fi novel I read some decades ago, I forget the name but it might possibly have been California Dreamtime. Anyway, an assassin (bad guy) equipped with super advanced milspec tools is stalking someone and has a sonar device on his belt and contact lens displays. I wonder if sonar, or perhaps a laser scanner (as typically available for robots, but at microwave or terahertz frequencies) wouldn't be better than radar.
You mean like Vadim Lopatin's GPL Cool Reader does for RTF files on Android? Extremely useful app. Market link. It even keeps track of what page you were on last time you read the file. By the way I downloaded Opera for Android but Android's built in browser also adjusts the divs to make one column. Reflowing layout is what HTML is supposed to be about. I don't get where there is a need to patent this at all. Obvious software is obvious.
23 miles is a great feat, congratulations!
I'm a layman but having read about the stroke victim in Antarctica I got curious about the application of aerospace technology to emergency transport, rescue, communications, observations, and whether focus on these issues could help attract funding to civilian engineering teams.
For example, it is apparently 5430km from Wellington, NZ to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and more like 6000km from Australia.
What would it take (team, cost, time, technology) to build an emergency aid rocket, or rocket-assisted aircraft that could be set on stand-by to deliver for example a medicine, part or surgical tool to the Pole Station?
Since the South Pole is not actually west of anywhere you can't take advantage of the Earth's rotation. Is it even possible to reach the Pole with a suborbital vehicle?
If it was something like a scaled up, navigable version of your current rocket, what kind of stresses, temperatures would the payload experience (would medicine have to be kept warm? would anything mechanical get warped by the vibration/shock?)
Thank you very much for any other thoughts you may have on the subject. I figure you're one of the few guys who could imagine this kind of thing. By the way, you rock!
1M instances...
Okay I recently have been wondering why doesn't Google Search on my HTC also search my phone and sdcard which is kinda important when you get into many gigs each.
That said, what you are talking about is what the Northern Light search engine used to do, clustering results quite successfully IIRC into folders. Also had a very nice design. And it would search the Internet, news, and thousands of publications in databases.
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/nlight/review.html
This page also says:
Northern Light also offers usgovsearch as a separate service. In conjunction with NTIS, Northern Light introduced usgovsearch for searching U.S. federal government Web sites, the NTIS bibliographic database, and Northern Light's Special Collections. Free searching was initially available to public libraries, K-12 public school libraries, and depository libraries. Otherwise a daily, monthly, or annual charge was required for access to the service. The government Web sites included in this service went well beyond the simple limiting of a search to .gov and .mil top level domains available in the Power Search on regular Northern Light. As of Dec. 2001, the NTIS database was no longer available from usgovsearch.
If you quietly glance out the corner of your eye, you might glimpse the most successful company in the nation floundering, losing its guts, for want of the vision of a charismatic individual.
The China Airlines crash in Nagoya, Japan was due to the robot pilot fighting the human pilot which led to an uncontrollable roller coaster. You could say human error but in reality, something hard for a human to deal with is I think a design error. This is why I personally would like to wait and see how the robot and human pilots work together in many situations for a while rather than jump on the first 787 I can.
I would like to know how it is superior in terms of safety and performance, not in terms of the passenger cabin.
For example the flight that killed 100 of Poland's top people in fog not too long ago was probably due to the president ordering a dangerous flight due to emotional reasons. But I would like to know if a 787 would have been able to save them (I don't know maybe it has better sensors or something?) Anyway bigger and more comfortable are not the most important things about a plane, my $0.02
"Google reportedly made a $6 billion bid for Google"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_adult_prevalence_rate
Can't understand how anybody can post snarky troll crap at all.
Did you know there are over 30 million people with HIV and 1 million are in the U.S., and it's apparently accelerating maybe?
These researchers probably deserve the nobel and the medal of honor. Here's hoping that something amazing comes out of this.
Of course the tangent everyone will want to know about is this cholesterol film around the virus they are disrupting.. and a naive question about whether there is something simple that can be done to reduce this cholesterol and weaken the virus' immune disruption activity, before waiting years for the real thing.
This is fucked up if true.
Antibodies from women with a rare condition known as immune infertility are used in the creation of GMO food
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may282011/gmo-not-food-cs.php
I always kept a huge plastic box on top of the fridge.
It held a full kilometer of ethernet, hubs, a couple routers, power blocks, testing apparatus, crossovers, and doodads, including a long spool of cool flat ribbon type ethernet which I never used (no rugs).
The problem with cables is they always spaghettify. Like all the extra computers. Too many.
I think I almost never had a use for the cable box and extra pcsand after much getting slapped around a little finally agreed to part ways with them in my last move. That was a very tough decision but decided too many cables needed to be recycled.
As for ties, only used twisties (like on bread) and once upon a time plastic ties. I had a beautiful thick sky blue Swedish designed spiral thingy that could hold together a bunch of cables but it was so pretty I only used it for one desk and then kept it unsullied in a box..!
So is the future of this digging gold or writing term papers for athletic scholars?
I'd think most useful would be to hire PhDs or maybe sysadmins who are very well studied but live in places where a little money goes a long way in terms of standard of living.
You could even extrapolate this to allow someone in a cosmopolitan area to hire a colleague who has moved into the boondocks. No API for that yet though.. and APIs make people interchangeable which is a problem. Dooms this system to low grade jobs and low grade personnel perhaps.
Alan Kay, 1972 looks like a kindle or an ipad with onscreen keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
Actually a popular encyclopedia we had in my house around 30 years ago had a yearly supplement called year book or world book I think. It had a special feature showing Smalltalk running on a Dynabook - IIRC a tablet without a keyboard showing.
You had sprites, like tiny triangles, and you could program them in Smalltalk like a logo turtle but it seemed even more sophisticated.
This totally fired my imagination as a young kid, I would have dreams about it and it got me into computers (though not sure if it was the first contact with them since I took a course in fortran on keypunch machines too around then).
Incidentally this article from Jan. 2010 says:
In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke describes something called a "Newspad" (a foolscap-sized device), which one of the novel’s central characters, Heywood Floyd, “plugs into the ship's information circuit and scans the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.”