When I entered protein crystallography in the late 80's, the standard of the day was the E&S PS330 (vector graphics, how I miss you!) with split-screen stereo. A few people could make their eyes separate well enough to see the 3-D unaided, but most of us strapped on "the box." The box had a pair of adjustable mirrors in front of each eye--you twiddled their angles and your position until you only saw the one 3-D image. The system worked great, until the neck strain kicked in from the extra weight on your face, or until you tried to look away and take notes.
I also wonder if anyone quoting the "3 laws" has actually read Asmiov. He explicitly states in several stories that the actual 3 Laws are mathematical formulae encoded in the paths of the robots positronic brains. The oft-quoted English versions are handy paraphrases at best.
Every time I read "Shockwave Rider" (finally available for Kindle!), I'm more convinced awed by Brunner. Most recently I was struck by the parallels between what happens to San Francisco in his world and how close we came to losing New Orleans. And I find his "plug-in lifestyle" to be even more prophetic than his pervasive computer tech--though like everyone else, he completely missed mobile/wireless.
Those two requirements are mutually exclusive. Unless they think there is an audit trail of everyone who has ever seen Windows source code (and given that there is an enterprise source license, that is going to be one heck of an audit).
In the 4 months since I was issued my T420s, I've re-imaged twice, replaced *every* part, and still get a random shutdown/reboot/bluescreen at least once per week. The W500 it replaced crashed about twice in 3 years.
I'm glad I'm not alone in hearing "The Sound of His Wings" in Santorum's campaign speeches. If Santorum gets nominated, or God forbid wins, I will consider it proof positive that Heinlein was in fact a time traveler.
I always opt out, and under *no* circumstances will I let them grope me in a private area. You want to violate me, you do it where grandmothers and children can watch. If I'm going to be degraded to do my job (my travel is mostly work), so are you.
Not entirely accurate--one of the things I like best about ebooks from Amazon is that I can (and do) read them on the Kindle, my phones, and my computers. The Kindle app is available for just about everything, and syncs between devices so I can pick up on one where I left off on another.
One of my first hard lessons in UNIX system administration came the day I typed "rm -rf *" as root in/etc. The second one came about 1 minute later when I asked the other admin where we kept the backups, only be greeted with "what backups?"
The first rule of Seattle Club is: you don't talk about July and August.
The second rule of Seattle Club is: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT JULY AND AUGUST!
(An exception to rules 1 and 2 is being made for 2011).
I've seen this problem go both ways in trying create commercial scientific software. For every scientist who can't believe that the code needs to be re-written, there is a software engineer who has read a survey paper and thinks they don't need to consult the domain experts. The reality is somewhere between--both groups have spent years learning their own craft and a little time picking up enough of the other's craft to get by. As I've told many scientists, "I wouldn't let them loose in the lab to do research, why would I think I can write commercial software?"
(For background, I'm a former computational/structural biologist turned non-coding software professional.)
It's a feature! I sit with the 1920x1200 laptop up close so I can use the keyboard and have the larger-but-lower-resolution second monitor as far away as it can go. It almost makes up the difference in window size.
Why do we claim the OS is "DPI aware" when we are forced to use the same settings for all displays???
That assumes that the test doesn't have a systematic error. If you are systematically biasing the results (and in the case of the lab that did the Tour de France testing, since their procedures and logs aren't published, we'll never know if they are biasing the results), any number of positives is no more remarkable than 1.
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Put down that iPhone and get an Android with a swipe keyboard.
I have 3 swipe keyboards for my iPhone. The problem isn't with the input device...
When I entered protein crystallography in the late 80's, the standard of the day was the E&S PS330 (vector graphics, how I miss you!) with split-screen stereo. A few people could make their eyes separate well enough to see the 3-D unaided, but most of us strapped on "the box." The box had a pair of adjustable mirrors in front of each eye--you twiddled their angles and your position until you only saw the one 3-D image. The system worked great, until the neck strain kicked in from the extra weight on your face, or until you tried to look away and take notes.
I also wonder if anyone quoting the "3 laws" has actually read Asmiov. He explicitly states in several stories that the actual 3 Laws are mathematical formulae encoded in the paths of the robots positronic brains. The oft-quoted English versions are handy paraphrases at best.
Every time I read "Shockwave Rider" (finally available for Kindle!), I'm more convinced awed by Brunner. Most recently I was struck by the parallels between what happens to San Francisco in his world and how close we came to losing New Orleans. And I find his "plug-in lifestyle" to be even more prophetic than his pervasive computer tech--though like everyone else, he completely missed mobile/wireless.
Those two requirements are mutually exclusive. Unless they think there is an audit trail of everyone who has ever seen Windows source code (and given that there is an enterprise source license, that is going to be one heck of an audit).
If I had mod points, you'd get them. FG is a great example of how bad it can be.
In the 4 months since I was issued my T420s, I've re-imaged twice, replaced *every* part, and still get a random shutdown/reboot/bluescreen at least once per week. The W500 it replaced crashed about twice in 3 years.
I'm glad I'm not alone in hearing "The Sound of His Wings" in Santorum's campaign speeches. If Santorum gets nominated, or God forbid wins, I will consider it proof positive that Heinlein was in fact a time traveler.
I always opt out, and under *no* circumstances will I let them grope me in a private area. You want to violate me, you do it where grandmothers and children can watch. If I'm going to be degraded to do my job (my travel is mostly work), so are you.
Amazon's ebooks only work on amazon hardware.
Not entirely accurate--one of the things I like best about ebooks from Amazon is that I can (and do) read them on the Kindle, my phones, and my computers. The Kindle app is available for just about everything, and syncs between devices so I can pick up on one where I left off on another.
I miss us too.
One of my first hard lessons in UNIX system administration came the day I typed "rm -rf *" as root in /etc. The second one came about 1 minute later when I asked the other admin where we kept the backups, only be greeted with "what backups?"
The first rule of Seattle Club is: you don't talk about July and August.
The second rule of Seattle Club is: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT JULY AND AUGUST!
(An exception to rules 1 and 2 is being made for 2011).
Forever more I will be stuck with the image of Bullwinkle in a lab coat, saying "watch me pull a spectrum out of a hat!"
I've seen this problem go both ways in trying create commercial scientific software. For every scientist who can't believe that the code needs to be re-written, there is a software engineer who has read a survey paper and thinks they don't need to consult the domain experts. The reality is somewhere between--both groups have spent years learning their own craft and a little time picking up enough of the other's craft to get by. As I've told many scientists, "I wouldn't let them loose in the lab to do research, why would I think I can write commercial software?" (For background, I'm a former computational/structural biologist turned non-coding software professional.)
It's a feature! I sit with the 1920x1200 laptop up close so I can use the keyboard and have the larger-but-lower-resolution second monitor as far away as it can go. It almost makes up the difference in window size. Why do we claim the OS is "DPI aware" when we are forced to use the same settings for all displays???
That assumes that the test doesn't have a systematic error. If you are systematically biasing the results (and in the case of the lab that did the Tour de France testing, since their procedures and logs aren't published, we'll never know if they are biasing the results), any number of positives is no more remarkable than 1.