I've seen proposals for a big superconducting coil where the electricity just goes around and around until you need it. Also allows a lot of electricity to be dumped at once...useful for anti-missile lasers, is one example....
If the submitter can't keep track of events without using some device, then maybe a Timex Datalink watch would be more useful. Otherwise, I never found it difficult to know when it was time of my next class...my college had period bells.
I'm going to chime in here with the rest. A PDA isn't a college tool, it's a gee-whiz gadget for management types who have nothing better to do than spend company money. I was seduced by the Visor in college, I laid out the money, then proceeded to never use it for anything but the occasional game. Input is just too slow, and you can print one weekly schedule for the semester and never need to change it.
Laptops are barely more useful. I have a tablet PC now and I imagine that it would have been somewhat useful in college, mostly because technical notes require writing many diagrams and formulas. If you don't have pen input, the best system I came up with was to type my text notes into program like Keynote or TreePad, and have a graph notebook next to the keyboard. When a formula or image needs to be drawn, you make a numbered reference in your text file and use that to link to your penciled drawings. If you have the motivation I guess you could scan in the day's notes and put everything together.
But seriously: to handle your schedule, a single sheet of paper is more than enough. Any important changes you can just write on your hand.;)
I was referring to the distance of deflection, assuming that our detector's finest level of resolution would be limited to the distance across an atom. Also assuming that we could detect a change in energy level from one atom to the next, and somehow compensate for normal spontaneous motion of the atoms.
As for the other concerns about swamping gravity readings with nearby stars and other objects, I would say that your idea has a chance of working if you can find some way to focus, reflect, or shield from gravity. But if you could do that, detecting black holes would probably be one of the last things we'd get around to applying your invention.
When we're talking about the miniscule types of deflections you're hoping to detect, things like the size of individual atoms start to get in the way. To detect things far away, you need macroscale detectors, not nanoscale. For some observations we use the orbit of the Earth itself to expand the size of a virtual detector.
A Slashdot article that links to a cut-and-paste article on an obsure gaming website that links to Sabertooth's homepage that links to a post about the new cards that links to the original press release.
What do you mean by Linux-friendly? A Linux box gets an IP just like every other computer. Unless you mean that when you call them to find out why the Internets are broken, they don't force you to pretend to reboot Windows.
If he wants to attract business types, then he should supply free internet, but use a temporary password and...here's the big one...turn on encryption. I love Panera when I'm on the road, but I usually tunnel back through SSH to my cable modem in order to have at least a modicum of security. Obviously the restaurant proprietors could sniff unencrypted web traffic, but I'd like it if the script kiddies outside the restaurant couldn't follow what I was doing.
I'm not saying the software sucks, I understand the amount of work put into it so far. I'm just saying that until they include pressure sensitivity, I'm not going to get excited about it because I'm not going to be switching to it.
Yeah, that's great and all, lots of work, but I'm still not that interested while the application continues to not support pressure sensitivity for my tablet.
I don't know why you wouldn't address the Hitler/Jews link. I was merely using it as an example of one way a man has started a movement by attacking something that was common to everyone. Surely you want to claim that the anti-Wal-Mart movement is justified, and not someone's great idea for getting some form of power, or feeling important?
I work with Wal-Mart daily as a vendor, I talk to regular Wal-Mart employees all the time and I haven't seen evidence to support your claims. Even if Wal-Mart cost 1.5 billion a year in welfare (which I doubt, or dispute that Wal-Mart's involvement changes what these people would do), they still pay like 16 billion in taxes. Also, the insurance issue is the worst kind of skewed reasoning; it's optional insurance, so employees aren't automatically docked if they choose not to participate. Health insurance is optional at MOST employers, if they choose not to participate, then that is their decision. Wal-Mart employees certainly get more for their money, insurance-wise, than I get with my non-Wal-Mart employer. And as a vendor, Wal-Mart doesn't try to manipulate us any more than any of our other corporate customers. The customer always want more for less, the vendor always wants to give less for more.
Anyway, I haven't talked to a Wal-Mart employee who acted unhappy or whispered stories of injustice along with a plea to sneak them out. In the Corporate offices the usual Dilbert politics exist, but again no worse than I've seen at other companies.
I'll admit, before I started to work with Wal-Mart I held some of your opinions. I ate up the articles that tried to dig up dirt. I ignored the people who insisted that statistics were being twisted and stories were being fabricated. In my opinion, attacking Wal-Mart is the sign of an easily swayed mind; I mean, it's so big you can hardly miss it, people with their own agendas will attack something we all know. Hitler did the same with the Jews, they were an important part of society and every German could relate because they all knew some Jews. Hitler never needed to explain the concept of Jews to the Germans. That would have taken a lot of resources and most Germans wouldn't have cared because it never affected them. Attacking Wal-Mart is easy because no one has to explain what Wal-Mart is. Another example would be cell phones. Someone started spreading rumors that cell phones, something common to many of us, caused brain cancer. Coincidentally, stickers and other products appeared that claimed to prevent cell phone cancer. Attack something we all know, and many will believe you. Then you can satisfy the urge to feel important and in control of a group of people, and possibly profit from their efforts. For many, the lure of power is enough, it's why you see so many protest groups around. Find something ordinary to protest, and you can instantly build a group of people to control.
I somehow get the feeling that some scientist were sitting around the lab drinking cheap beer, and wondered what they'd have to do to get the Saturn data to sound EXACTLY like something out of a poor-quality 50's space flick.
This applies to those who design and sell complete transmitters. If the transmitter you purchased was FCC certified, and you as an individual happened to install a different antenna, what can they do? And someone selling an antenna can't be held liable, it's not a transmitter by itself.
Supposedly, the firmware on this thing can be upgraded to support more music formats. Maybe the manufacturer will release a patch, or perhaps the hacking community will take care of it once they get their eager little hands on a firmware binary.
Yes, someone could build a tape-to-USB interface for a few bucks. But it would have nothing to do with differential pairs. The USB protocol is much more complex than you apparently believe; if the device isn't recognized and initialized, the bus doesn't even know it exists. I've actually developed USB devices, and if you mess up even a tiny detail, it doesn't work. A hundred times more complex than RS232, if you plan to start from differential pairs and work up to the USB protocol.
The only way this could be easily done is with a USB microcontroller with a built-in low level interface, plus some serious quality time developing firmware. There may also be some prebuilt analog-to-USB chips, though at that point one wonders if it might be more efficient to use a sound card input.
I used to live in a non-DST state. And you know what? It was great, not having to wake up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour earlier, and not have one or two time-keeping devices with the wrong time a month later. It was a real headache this year because I had to travel, and keeping track of time zones is hard enough without worrying about DST.
Heck, I'm not a believer in time zones, either. Let's adopt one time standard and adjust schedules accordingly. I don't need to be tricked into waking up in the morning.
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I've seen proposals for a big superconducting coil where the electricity just goes around and around until you need it. Also allows a lot of electricity to be dumped at once...useful for anti-missile lasers, is one example....
If the submitter can't keep track of events without using some device, then maybe a Timex Datalink watch would be more useful. Otherwise, I never found it difficult to know when it was time of my next class...my college had period bells.
I'm going to chime in here with the rest. A PDA isn't a college tool, it's a gee-whiz gadget for management types who have nothing better to do than spend company money. I was seduced by the Visor in college, I laid out the money, then proceeded to never use it for anything but the occasional game. Input is just too slow, and you can print one weekly schedule for the semester and never need to change it.
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Laptops are barely more useful. I have a tablet PC now and I imagine that it would have been somewhat useful in college, mostly because technical notes require writing many diagrams and formulas. If you don't have pen input, the best system I came up with was to type my text notes into program like Keynote or TreePad, and have a graph notebook next to the keyboard. When a formula or image needs to be drawn, you make a numbered reference in your text file and use that to link to your penciled drawings. If you have the motivation I guess you could scan in the day's notes and put everything together.
But seriously: to handle your schedule, a single sheet of paper is more than enough. Any important changes you can just write on your hand.
The Penguins are a miraculous species, capable of extreme heroism, self-sacrifice, sorrow and unshakable love.
Or at least, that was the end goal of the camerawork and the filtering of the hundreds or thousands of hours of penguin footage in the editing room.
Call me cynical, but with enough footage you could probably make a pile of beercans express anthropomorphic emotions.
I was referring to the distance of deflection, assuming that our detector's finest level of resolution would be limited to the distance across an atom. Also assuming that we could detect a change in energy level from one atom to the next, and somehow compensate for normal spontaneous motion of the atoms.
As for the other concerns about swamping gravity readings with nearby stars and other objects, I would say that your idea has a chance of working if you can find some way to focus, reflect, or shield from gravity. But if you could do that, detecting black holes would probably be one of the last things we'd get around to applying your invention.
When we're talking about the miniscule types of deflections you're hoping to detect, things like the size of individual atoms start to get in the way. To detect things far away, you need macroscale detectors, not nanoscale. For some observations we use the orbit of the Earth itself to expand the size of a virtual detector.
If that keyboard in your closet is a Northgate Omnikey Ultra in good condition, I'll take it off your hands for $50 plus shipping.
A Slashdot article that links to a cut-and-paste article on an obsure gaming website that links to Sabertooth's homepage that links to a post about the new cards that links to the original press release.
What do you mean by Linux-friendly? A Linux box gets an IP just like every other computer. Unless you mean that when you call them to find out why the Internets are broken, they don't force you to pretend to reboot Windows.
This site has quite a range of wireless communications modules: http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cart =354104&cat=62&
Coin-size transceivers for $20. There's also Bluetooth modules in case you want to roll your own Bluetooth thingamajig.
That's no moon....
(I feel dirty)
If he wants to attract business types, then he should supply free internet, but use a temporary password and...here's the big one...turn on encryption. I love Panera when I'm on the road, but I usually tunnel back through SSH to my cable modem in order to have at least a modicum of security. Obviously the restaurant proprietors could sniff unencrypted web traffic, but I'd like it if the script kiddies outside the restaurant couldn't follow what I was doing.
I'm not saying the software sucks, I understand the amount of work put into it so far. I'm just saying that until they include pressure sensitivity, I'm not going to get excited about it because I'm not going to be switching to it.
Yeah, that's great and all, lots of work, but I'm still not that interested while the application continues to not support pressure sensitivity for my tablet.
I don't know why you wouldn't address the Hitler/Jews link. I was merely using it as an example of one way a man has started a movement by attacking something that was common to everyone. Surely you want to claim that the anti-Wal-Mart movement is justified, and not someone's great idea for getting some form of power, or feeling important?
I work with Wal-Mart daily as a vendor, I talk to regular Wal-Mart employees all the time and I haven't seen evidence to support your claims. Even if Wal-Mart cost 1.5 billion a year in welfare (which I doubt, or dispute that Wal-Mart's involvement changes what these people would do), they still pay like 16 billion in taxes. Also, the insurance issue is the worst kind of skewed reasoning; it's optional insurance, so employees aren't automatically docked if they choose not to participate. Health insurance is optional at MOST employers, if they choose not to participate, then that is their decision. Wal-Mart employees certainly get more for their money, insurance-wise, than I get with my non-Wal-Mart employer. And as a vendor, Wal-Mart doesn't try to manipulate us any more than any of our other corporate customers. The customer always want more for less, the vendor always wants to give less for more.
Anyway, I haven't talked to a Wal-Mart employee who acted unhappy or whispered stories of injustice along with a plea to sneak them out. In the Corporate offices the usual Dilbert politics exist, but again no worse than I've seen at other companies.
I'll admit, before I started to work with Wal-Mart I held some of your opinions. I ate up the articles that tried to dig up dirt. I ignored the people who insisted that statistics were being twisted and stories were being fabricated. In my opinion, attacking Wal-Mart is the sign of an easily swayed mind; I mean, it's so big you can hardly miss it, people with their own agendas will attack something we all know. Hitler did the same with the Jews, they were an important part of society and every German could relate because they all knew some Jews. Hitler never needed to explain the concept of Jews to the Germans. That would have taken a lot of resources and most Germans wouldn't have cared because it never affected them. Attacking Wal-Mart is easy because no one has to explain what Wal-Mart is. Another example would be cell phones. Someone started spreading rumors that cell phones, something common to many of us, caused brain cancer. Coincidentally, stickers and other products appeared that claimed to prevent cell phone cancer. Attack something we all know, and many will believe you. Then you can satisfy the urge to feel important and in control of a group of people, and possibly profit from their efforts. For many, the lure of power is enough, it's why you see so many protest groups around. Find something ordinary to protest, and you can instantly build a group of people to control.
Worked for the Nazis.
I somehow get the feeling that some scientist were sitting around the lab drinking cheap beer, and wondered what they'd have to do to get the Saturn data to sound EXACTLY like something out of a poor-quality 50's space flick.
This applies to those who design and sell complete transmitters. If the transmitter you purchased was FCC certified, and you as an individual happened to install a different antenna, what can they do? And someone selling an antenna can't be held liable, it's not a transmitter by itself.
You expect us to believe that the "Higher-Ups" you mention would actually be more knowledgable and in tune with reality?
Supposedly, the firmware on this thing can be upgraded to support more music formats. Maybe the manufacturer will release a patch, or perhaps the hacking community will take care of it once they get their eager little hands on a firmware binary.
Yes, someone could build a tape-to-USB interface for a few bucks. But it would have nothing to do with differential pairs. The USB protocol is much more complex than you apparently believe; if the device isn't recognized and initialized, the bus doesn't even know it exists. I've actually developed USB devices, and if you mess up even a tiny detail, it doesn't work. A hundred times more complex than RS232, if you plan to start from differential pairs and work up to the USB protocol.
The only way this could be easily done is with a USB microcontroller with a built-in low level interface, plus some serious quality time developing firmware. There may also be some prebuilt analog-to-USB chips, though at that point one wonders if it might be more efficient to use a sound card input.
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Not quite feasible until everyone has streaming broadband in their car. Or Google offers their entire mapstore for download.
And here I was, thinking Socket 939 was going to be good for a LONG time, and bought a new motherboard....
Oh well, it's not like motherboards are the most expensive part of a computer.
I used to live in a non-DST state. And you know what? It was great, not having to wake up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour earlier, and not have one or two time-keeping devices with the wrong time a month later. It was a real headache this year because I had to travel, and keeping track of time zones is hard enough without worrying about DST.
Heck, I'm not a believer in time zones, either. Let's adopt one time standard and adjust schedules accordingly. I don't need to be tricked into waking up in the morning.