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I really want google on my dorm room... They should have a function where you can connect your web cams to a search function and make it find your clean socks.
Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
Actually, they do, but not all the time. There is a special law that is used more and more often, which allows policemen to search everyone unprovoked. They only need an 'officer of justice' (DA) to sign a paper first.
The article mentioned music players integrating with video players... What about cell phones? Almost everyone has a cell phone, and a lot of people carry mp3-players around at all times. There're already integrated systems and I think this will continue, with cell phones pushing the < 1 GB-music players completely off the market.
The bigger players, like the iPod, are of course a different story. Maybe their market share will grow bigger because people will be demanding higher and higher qualities. Or maybe they will not, because the masses are satisfied with their cell phone-music players.
Or maybe the music players will follow the digital cameras: people will have them both on their cell phones and as 'real' cameras for high-quality pictures, using them on different occaissions. Then you could have your cell phone-music player for 'on the road' and a semi-portable system that could be docked in your home music system, in your car radio and at work for loads and loads of high quality music.
The possibilities are endless. I'm looking forward to it.:)
Good for you... my cat will never get one. She doesn't even know how to use the cat door, she just throws herself at the handle of the back door until it opens...
I must confess it is funny to see an eight-pound orange furball flying through the air and crashing into the door, then looking confused and trying all over again:)
But maybe this demonstration of mechanical skills and healthy work ethic is enough for a BS in engineering?
I know how you feel... I have a gene mutation that I might or might not pass on to my potential children. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through, much less my own children.
There's also the discussion of screening embryo's after IVF. That way, you could for instance choose the gender of the baby, or see whether it has the genetic flaws that run in the family. I consider that completely and utterly unethical, though... it feels like saying "nope, you're not good enough, you may die now" to your children.
It does sound a bit fishy... I just attended a lecture on DNA-focused biophysics the other day, and they were all about "we won't be able to compute it for years, but..."
And by the way, as the article said, we're quite a bit behind the rodents in losing bases... let's make babies:)
Despite my mum always telling me not to wonder about "what if"'s...
If you had had a 'normal' childhood, would you have gone to college straight after grammar school, and if so, what subject would you have prefered to read?
The last time I checked my hard disk it had moving parts in it... And I don't think it will survive a drop, which these things will, according to the article. I say hail to the mechanical memory!
From the article: "And in addition to computer hard discs, the team thinks that plastic magnets could have important medical applications, (...). Organic magnetic materials are less likely to be rejected by the body."
Who volunteers to become the first human memo board?
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I really want google on my dorm room... They should have a function where you can connect your web cams to a search function and make it find your clean socks.
Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
Actually, they do, but not all the time. There is a special law that is used more and more often, which allows policemen to search everyone unprovoked. They only need an 'officer of justice' (DA) to sign a paper first.
The article mentioned music players integrating with video players... What about cell phones? Almost everyone has a cell phone, and a lot of people carry mp3-players around at all times. There're already integrated systems and I think this will continue, with cell phones pushing the < 1 GB-music players completely off the market.
:)
The bigger players, like the iPod, are of course a different story. Maybe their market share will grow bigger because people will be demanding higher and higher qualities. Or maybe they will not, because the masses are satisfied with their cell phone-music players.
Or maybe the music players will follow the digital cameras: people will have them both on their cell phones and as 'real' cameras for high-quality pictures, using them on different occaissions. Then you could have your cell phone-music player for 'on the road' and a semi-portable system that could be docked in your home music system, in your car radio and at work for loads and loads of high quality music.
The possibilities are endless. I'm looking forward to it.
Good for you... my cat will never get one. She doesn't even know how to use the cat door, she just throws herself at the handle of the back door until it opens...
:)
I must confess it is funny to see an eight-pound orange furball flying through the air and crashing into the door, then looking confused and trying all over again
But maybe this demonstration of mechanical skills and healthy work ethic is enough for a BS in engineering?
I know how you feel... I have a gene mutation that I might or might not pass on to my potential children. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through, much less my own children.
There's also the discussion of screening embryo's after IVF. That way, you could for instance choose the gender of the baby, or see whether it has the genetic flaws that run in the family. I consider that completely and utterly unethical, though... it feels like saying "nope, you're not good enough, you may die now" to your children.
I write letters and such in cursive, but it's too slow for course notes... read: becomes a tangled mass of lines and ink blots.
:)
I do write my lab journals in cursive, and three colours of pen... according to one of my classmates I'm not human.
Someone made a typo in the translator :)
It does sound a bit fishy... I just attended a lecture on DNA-focused biophysics the other day, and they were all about "we won't be able to compute it for years, but..." And by the way, as the article said, we're quite a bit behind the rodents in losing bases... let's make babies :)
Despite my mum always telling me not to wonder about "what if"'s... If you had had a 'normal' childhood, would you have gone to college straight after grammar school, and if so, what subject would you have prefered to read?
Weren't there glasses with LEDs projecting on your retina already? Those certainly sound safer than lasers.
The last time I checked my hard disk it had moving parts in it... And I don't think it will survive a drop, which these things will, according to the article. I say hail to the mechanical memory!
That will make life a lot easier for kiddies and virus-writers.
From the article: "And in addition to computer hard discs, the team thinks that plastic magnets could have important medical applications, (...). Organic magnetic materials are less likely to be rejected by the body." Who volunteers to become the first human memo board?