Yeah, and they typically do it by taking out weight.
Well, maybe if you're doing rocket calculations, but for cars you can also help by keeping the structure rigid and placing the weight low/balanced to reduce body roll. Getting the aerodynamics/suspension/brakes/wheels/etc right also helps alot.
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Simple question - Is she holding the mouse properly? (Don't take this as a condesending question - no one ever teaches people how to hold/use a mouse and ergonomics is very important - humans just aren't naturally designed to sit in chairs all day long). Pain such as this can often be caused by having the arm at the wrong angle causing the wrist to be twisted at an odd angle for long hours.
Instead of just looking at the mouse, I'd suggest looking at her complete desk/chair/keyboard setup. Starting at the bottom and working your way up.
Chair
Her chair should be such that her feet comfortably touch the ground when the knees are bent at about 90 (ie. not dangling and not cramped backwards/stretched forward) and her back is straight and comfortably supported. This should then put her elbows at about level of the desk surface.
Desk
Get her to place her hands on the keyboard with her shoulders relaxed and her forearms should be able to rest along the desk surface (alot of people have their keyboard too close cramping up their shoulders and causing the elbows to stick out and wrists to be twisted... move the keyboard back towards the monitor until its at a good comfortable length). Do the same for the mouse and get her to hold it.
Mouse
Since her arm is now relaxed and stretched out, the base of the mouse should rest under the palm of the hand, with the base of the palm resting on the mousepad, so the fingers naturally stretch forward over the buttons. Alot of people hold mice incorrectly from above and then move it with their wrist. The wrist shouldn't actually move much (it wiggles a bit) but most of the movement actually coming from small movements of the elbow/shoulder (which translate to larger movements of the forearm which transfer through the base of the palm to the mouse - basically her watch should move in sync with the mouse and not sit still).
Once all this is done and correct then you can check if the mouse if comfortable or not (I had one mouse which was too tall (meant for a bigger hand or just bad design) and I noticed the effect after a week as my wrist was tilted back just a fraction too much).
I don't think its so much racism as pride. Which is more preferrable, being able to push a button to raise your bed into a sitting position and then using an assisted walker to make it on your own to the bathroom (for the third time that night), or calling out weakly to your nurse at 4am and hoping they hear you and respond before you wet the bed.
from the article you wanted (posted above) Interacting with other people can be difficult for the Japanese, he says, "because they always have to think about what the other person is feeling, and how what they say will affect the other person." But it is impossible to embarrass a robot, or be embarrassed, by saying the wrong thing.
The simple truth is you can't be a burden to a machine. Putting it all down to racism is akin to saying that American's elderly is so accustom to thinking of other races as beneath them that they have don't get embarressed by it at all.
Most of the time people hit imaginary dates due to really simple things like: tomorrow = today + oneDay;
A good date parser should just automatically correct these so Feb 31st is actually stored correctly as March 3rd (or 2nd depending on the year). Otherwise code is tested, deployed and all works fine until it mysteriously falls over at the end of the year, resulting in some techie getting called in early New Years Day because yesterday (2006 Jan -1) is throwing an error.
Divert the calls from your employer's phone to your own phone and turn off your employer's phone.
nah, leave it on in your desk draw after diverted it... that way you're still busy working back late.:)
As our tech increases we need less and less knowledge about it. My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?
The kid. While both of you are looking for the fuse the kid realises that the car's got an onboard computer (black box) which has crashed and needs resetting, finds the reset switch (possibly a hole needing a paperclip), and holds it down for 3 seconds.
After an hour, you, knowing how to disconnect and reconnect stuff, possibly manage a hard reset by opening the onboard case and removing the systems internal battery and main power connector. The car resets back to default factor mode and while working turns on warning lights and beeps at you until you get your car serviced. You swear at modern cars and how they are black boxes.
Meanwhile, your mum is still searching for something burnt out. After calling the tech support number listed in the manual she presses (but doesn't hold down) the reset button and eventually gets her car towed to the mechanic. He presses the button for 3 seconds, charges her outragously for it, and laughs to his workmates about how clueless the old ditty is.
Give each one "the exactly the same test". ie. one written 30 years ago reflecting what was taught, and deemed important, at that time and is it really so surprising that in a test that only a 1/3 did well on then, in a subject that isn't covered fully anymore, that this percentage will drop.
The percentage that did well now probably matches the ones that didn't need to pay attention back then to understand these concepts and the dropped percentage probably matches those that need to be taught the concepts but have good recall. (ie. 30 years ago the bright kids and the studious kids did well, now the bright kids do well and the studious kids fail what wasn't covered in class).
The question is, have these subjects been lost, or are they simply being replaced with a different set of applied knowlege. ie. Have the basic principles of mass/volume/displacement just been replaced with the basic principles of light/sound/wavelengths/etc to reflect a general technological shift from hydraulic to optic, etc.
Would asking kids now, "Which wavelength is longer, red or blue?" be a more appropriate question? 30 years ago I'm sure that would have gotten alot of blank stares, even from high-school kids.
At that are children are sponges, most just know what they are taught (watch any light-news tv report were they gets kids to add their opinion about some issues and watch each give the same 'correct' answer that was just explained to them).
"That's jsut it, vertical turbines can never be as efficient as horizontal (propeller style). There's a reason airplanes use horizontal propellers; they are more efficient."
For an airplane efficiency is a measure of power to weight, so ofcourse it's more efficient to spin a lighter prop faster to produce push.
For this they're talking of efficiency in terms of power to area (and also mention power to cost). A bit of extra weight (momentum) doesn't really matter.
and then convert it back to Flash
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And then you can use this tool to convert the web based C#/XAML app back to Flash. http://www.xamlon.com/
Hopefully Macrobe will take this as a challenge and drop in some 3d support and copy a few other features into their next version.
Main differences here is Flash is focused on the web - while you can output an.exe it has its limitations (disk access, etc -- which requires workarounds like embedding it inside another layer (ie. C# app) and passing messages back and forth).
Sparkle is for Desktop apps - and you can output for the web (but will limit your potential audience)
DVD subtitle tracks would be another good addition to help pick up slang too (most have an english track along with a couple others depending on the region)... all time-synced and easy to match up...
(I'm guessing that it'd fall under fair use and google wouldn't have to struggle to get the movie studios approval, (even though such tech would benefit the studios too))
Hopefully they'll do too go a job with their case and expose a nice big hole in the US patent system itself (or atleast set a good precedent for others to follow).
They picked a strong enough opponent for it. The CSIRO is very well established and respected in Australia, being involved in all kinds of useful industry research, from this to better milk pasturisation, so I'd say the patent has the details to back itself up. And since the CSIRO doesn't produce any products of its own, its immune from attack by the enormous patent libraries these companies own (the usual tatic).
I'm not sure how they'll proceed but it'll be an interesting one to watch play out...
*chuckles* now that's something to do and submit to http://www.hackaday.com/ -- ofcourse if you ever tried to resell your house I doubt the real estate agent would know what to make of it... probably list it as 'ideal for smokers'
Most houses are wired in zones, I know all the places I've lived in have the lights on a seperate switch to the powerpoints (which are usually split into groups too). So the lights are actually the easiest to swap as long as you do them all at the same time.
The other stuff gets more hands-on since, just looking about this room, I'd have to crack open my printer to bypass its built-in converter, reduce the 12V to 7.5V for the USB hub, modem uses 15V, phone charger 5.8V, subwoofer might still want AC, etc.
We really need a standard plug agreed on by gadget makers (the USB of DC power) before it makes sense for the rest, but lights might be a good the first step in the right direction.
Most of the mac sites have the keynotes in point form. To answer you questions:
1) mini mac comes with OS and iLife (iWorks $79) -- which I think puts it under an corporate workstation microsoft licence cost... how much does Office cost again?
Actually the second would be: Solar -> Electricity -> Battery (Lead/Acid) -> Power
Battery Storage also being extremely ineffective. So its really just about finding a better energy container and the 'magic genie' needs its magic lamp that it can't escape from and is nice and small. The interesting research is in these containers, be in sponge like materials or hygrogen pebbles, they just need to find a way to hold it safely and compactly. They have set targets that they have to reach in fuel-cell efficiency and hydrogen storage density before it makes sense to produce commerically... but they're moving steadily towards it (the first combustion engines were very inefficent as were the first batteries).
Flash is also a very good language if taught correctly as its quite easy to start with (stop(); gotoAndPlay();) and is very visual which is good for instant feedback and short attentions spans.
Its also a very good way to extend into object orientated concepts and events as you can see the objects your talking about and how they react to your code (car._x--; this.onRelease).
PhotoDisc - Getty Images is another great stock photo library -- gives you free shots to composite from and then you pay for the ones you use (itemise the cost and pass onto client).
Also for when you do need something drawn, get/take reference photos and trace - give you perfect dimensions and proportions everytime.
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This goes off the assumption that it just uses the link name or address to find the page.
Basically when a page is indexed by a search engine such as google, the first step is to create a document vector from the document based on the repetition of words (terms) and how common these words are (ie. list of TFIDF values -- term frequency * inverse document frequency).
Anyway, this document vector is what is compared against by the search engine to find matches (which is how google can return results is 0.14 seconds). It also acts as a extremely good (and small) statistical representation of the document.
I'd put money on the fact that the program calculates and keeps a record of the document vectors of these linked pages. When re-run, it then can tell how much a linked page has changed from last time it was checked (as mentioned in the article) and if a page has moved it can refind it with a lot of precision. (finding a 100% match if the page has just been moved but the content hasn't changed at all).
Quite clever, and if this was used, you could basically totally reshuffle your web's directory structure, re-run the tool, and have all your links back in place...
Why is it that every time I read about a scientific breakthrough, journalists always promise that it could lead to... *drumroll*... an improved lightbulb?
I wonder if Einstein had this problem. E=mc^2... helps us understand the relationship between energy and matter... which could lead to...
Flash allows me to use if statements Some people use this to write if (answer=="Password") {... therefore I should be wary of flash
And this is modded as Insightful?
Just another, "You can do stupid things in Flash, therefore Flash is bad", post. Wouldn't the better lesson to be learnt be, don't trust client-side code as security.
PS. Drag a C/C++ program in notepad and you can see all it's ASCII strings too...
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Or take the Mac Mini base footprint and extend it up to fit a normal-sized harddrive and video card slot and you've got yourself:
the Mac Cube
(that is, if you had a thing for cubes)
Yeah, and they typically do it by taking out weight.
Well, maybe if you're doing rocket calculations, but for cars you can also help by keeping the structure rigid and placing the weight low/balanced to reduce body roll. Getting the aerodynamics/suspension/brakes/wheels/etc right also helps alot.
nice
Simple question - Is she holding the mouse properly? (Don't take this as a condesending question - no one ever teaches people how to hold/use a mouse and ergonomics is very important - humans just aren't naturally designed to sit in chairs all day long). Pain such as this can often be caused by having the arm at the wrong angle causing the wrist to be twisted at an odd angle for long hours.
Instead of just looking at the mouse, I'd suggest looking at her complete desk/chair/keyboard setup. Starting at the bottom and working your way up.
Chair
Her chair should be such that her feet comfortably touch the ground when the knees are bent at about 90 (ie. not dangling and not cramped backwards/stretched forward) and her back is straight and comfortably supported. This should then put her elbows at about level of the desk surface.
Desk
Get her to place her hands on the keyboard with her shoulders relaxed and her forearms should be able to rest along the desk surface (alot of people have their keyboard too close cramping up their shoulders and causing the elbows to stick out and wrists to be twisted... move the keyboard back towards the monitor until its at a good comfortable length). Do the same for the mouse and get her to hold it.
Mouse
Since her arm is now relaxed and stretched out, the base of the mouse should rest under the palm of the hand, with the base of the palm resting on the mousepad, so the fingers naturally stretch forward over the buttons. Alot of people hold mice incorrectly from above and then move it with their wrist. The wrist shouldn't actually move much (it wiggles a bit) but most of the movement actually coming from small movements of the elbow/shoulder (which translate to larger movements of the forearm which transfer through the base of the palm to the mouse - basically her watch should move in sync with the mouse and not sit still).
Once all this is done and correct then you can check if the mouse if comfortable or not (I had one mouse which was too tall (meant for a bigger hand or just bad design) and I noticed the effect after a week as my wrist was tilted back just a fraction too much).
I don't think its so much racism as pride. Which is more preferrable, being able to push a button to raise your bed into a sitting position and then using an assisted walker to make it on your own to the bathroom (for the third time that night), or calling out weakly to your nurse at 4am and hoping they hear you and respond before you wet the bed.
from the article you wanted (posted above)
Interacting with other people can be difficult for the Japanese, he says, "because they always have to think about what the other person is feeling, and how what they say will affect the other person." But it is impossible to embarrass a robot, or be embarrassed, by saying the wrong thing.
The simple truth is you can't be a burden to a machine. Putting it all down to racism is akin to saying that American's elderly is so accustom to thinking of other races as beneath them that they have don't get embarressed by it at all.
Most of the time people hit imaginary dates due to really simple things like:
tomorrow = today + oneDay;
A good date parser should just automatically correct these so Feb 31st is actually stored correctly as March 3rd (or 2nd depending on the year). Otherwise code is tested, deployed and all works fine until it mysteriously falls over at the end of the year, resulting in some techie getting called in early New Years Day because yesterday (2006 Jan -1) is throwing an error.
Divert the calls from your employer's phone to your own phone and turn off your employer's phone. :)
nah, leave it on in your desk draw after diverted it... that way you're still busy working back late.
As our tech increases we need less and less knowledge about it. My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?
The kid. While both of you are looking for the fuse the kid realises that the car's got an onboard computer (black box) which has crashed and needs resetting, finds the reset switch (possibly a hole needing a paperclip), and holds it down for 3 seconds.
After an hour, you, knowing how to disconnect and reconnect stuff, possibly manage a hard reset by opening the onboard case and removing the systems internal battery and main power connector. The car resets back to default factor mode and while working turns on warning lights and beeps at you until you get your car serviced. You swear at modern cars and how they are black boxes.
Meanwhile, your mum is still searching for something burnt out. After calling the tech support number listed in the manual she presses (but doesn't hold down) the reset button and eventually gets her car towed to the mechanic. He presses the button for 3 seconds, charges her outragously for it, and laughs to his workmates about how clueless the old ditty is.
Give each one "the exactly the same test". ie. one written 30 years ago reflecting what was taught, and deemed important, at that time and is it really so surprising that in a test that only a 1/3 did well on then, in a subject that isn't covered fully anymore, that this percentage will drop.
The percentage that did well now probably matches the ones that didn't need to pay attention back then to understand these concepts and the dropped percentage probably matches those that need to be taught the concepts but have good recall. (ie. 30 years ago the bright kids and the studious kids did well, now the bright kids do well and the studious kids fail what wasn't covered in class).
The question is, have these subjects been lost, or are they simply being replaced with a different set of applied knowlege. ie. Have the basic principles of mass/volume/displacement just been replaced with the basic principles of light/sound/wavelengths/etc to reflect a general technological shift from hydraulic to optic, etc.
Would asking kids now, "Which wavelength is longer, red or blue?" be a more appropriate question? 30 years ago I'm sure that would have gotten alot of blank stares, even from high-school kids.
At that are children are sponges, most just know what they are taught (watch any light-news tv report were they gets kids to add their opinion about some issues and watch each give the same 'correct' answer that was just explained to them).
"That's jsut it, vertical turbines can never be as efficient as horizontal (propeller style). There's a reason airplanes use horizontal propellers; they are more efficient."
For an airplane efficiency is a measure of power to weight, so ofcourse it's more efficient to spin a lighter prop faster to produce push.
For this they're talking of efficiency in terms of power to area (and also mention power to cost). A bit of extra weight (momentum) doesn't really matter.
And then you can use this tool to convert the web based C#/XAML app back to Flash. http://www.xamlon.com/
.exe it has its limitations (disk access, etc -- which requires workarounds like embedding it inside another layer (ie. C# app) and passing messages back and forth).
Hopefully Macrobe will take this as a challenge and drop in some 3d support and copy a few other features into their next version.
Main differences here is Flash is focused on the web - while you can output an
Sparkle is for Desktop apps - and you can output for the web (but will limit your potential audience)
and here is a rendering of the completed project
Microsoft plans in advance - it's a step at keeping .doc as the office standard and warding off PDF from taking over... because we're open too...
not that its a bad thing... I just think this is their real motives..
DVD subtitle tracks would be another good addition to help pick up slang too (most have an english track along with a couple others depending on the region)... all time-synced and easy to match up...
(I'm guessing that it'd fall under fair use and google wouldn't have to struggle to get the movie studios approval, (even though such tech would benefit the studios too))
and who says that open source isn't innovative... oh wait, now it's a good thing...
Hopefully they'll do too go a job with their case and expose a nice big hole in the US patent system itself (or atleast set a good precedent for others to follow).
They picked a strong enough opponent for it. The CSIRO is very well established and respected in Australia, being involved in all kinds of useful industry research, from this to better milk pasturisation, so I'd say the patent has the details to back itself up. And since the CSIRO doesn't produce any products of its own, its immune from attack by the enormous patent libraries these companies own (the usual tatic).
I'm not sure how they'll proceed but it'll be an interesting one to watch play out...
Mono vs Macro... what about Exo
*chuckles* now that's something to do and submit to http://www.hackaday.com/ -- ofcourse if you ever tried to resell your house I doubt the real estate agent would know what to make of it... probably list it as 'ideal for smokers'
Of course rewiring houses is the real problem...
Most houses are wired in zones, I know all the places I've lived in have the lights on a seperate switch to the powerpoints (which are usually split into groups too). So the lights are actually the easiest to swap as long as you do them all at the same time.
The other stuff gets more hands-on since, just looking about this room, I'd have to crack open my printer to bypass its built-in converter, reduce the 12V to 7.5V for the USB hub, modem uses 15V, phone charger 5.8V, subwoofer might still want AC, etc.
We really need a standard plug agreed on by gadget makers (the USB of DC power) before it makes sense for the rest, but lights might be a good the first step in the right direction.
Most of the mac sites have the keynotes in point form. To answer you questions:
1) mini mac comes with OS and iLife (iWorks $79) -- which I think puts it under an corporate workstation microsoft licence cost... how much does Office cost again?
2) No screen... playlist or shuffle/autofill
Solar*(inefficient conversion rate)->Electricity*(inefficient conversion rate)->Hydrogen*(inefficient conversion rate)->Power
Solar*(inefficient conversion rate)->Electricity*(inefficient conversion rate)->Power
Actually the second would be: Solar -> Electricity -> Battery (Lead/Acid) -> Power
Battery Storage also being extremely ineffective. So its really just about finding a better energy container and the 'magic genie' needs its magic lamp that it can't escape from and is nice and small. The interesting research is in these containers, be in sponge like materials or hygrogen pebbles, they just need to find a way to hold it safely and compactly. They have set targets that they have to reach in fuel-cell efficiency and hydrogen storage density before it makes sense to produce commerically... but they're moving steadily towards it (the first combustion engines were very inefficent as were the first batteries).
Flash is also a very good language if taught correctly as its quite easy to start with (stop(); gotoAndPlay();) and is very visual which is good for instant feedback and short attentions spans.
Its also a very good way to extend into object orientated concepts and events as you can see the objects your talking about and how they react to your code (car._x--; this.onRelease).
Very good advice. To add to that:
PhotoDisc - Getty Images is another great stock photo library -- gives you free shots to composite from and then you pay for the ones you use (itemise the cost and pass onto client).
Also for when you do need something drawn, get/take reference photos and trace - give you perfect dimensions and proportions everytime.
This goes off the assumption that it just uses the link name or address to find the page.
Basically when a page is indexed by a search engine such as google, the first step is to create a document vector from the document based on the repetition of words (terms) and how common these words are (ie. list of TFIDF values -- term frequency * inverse document frequency).
Anyway, this document vector is what is compared against by the search engine to find matches (which is how google can return results is 0.14 seconds). It also acts as a extremely good (and small) statistical representation of the document.
I'd put money on the fact that the program calculates and keeps a record of the document vectors of these linked pages. When re-run, it then can tell how much a linked page has changed from last time it was checked (as mentioned in the article) and if a page has moved it can refind it with a lot of precision. (finding a 100% match if the page has just been moved but the content hasn't changed at all).
Quite clever, and if this was used, you could basically totally reshuffle your web's directory structure, re-run the tool, and have all your links back in place...
Why is it that every time I read about a scientific breakthrough, journalists always promise that it could lead to... *drumroll*... an improved lightbulb?
I wonder if Einstein had this problem.
E=mc^2... helps us understand the relationship between energy and matter... which could lead to...
So basically...
Flash allows me to use if statements
Some people use this to write if (answer=="Password") {...
therefore I should be wary of flash
And this is modded as Insightful?
Just another, "You can do stupid things in Flash, therefore Flash is bad", post. Wouldn't the better lesson to be learnt be, don't trust client-side code as security.
PS. Drag a C/C++ program in notepad and you can see all it's ASCII strings too...