I'm not into the medical field, but while in university doing engineering one of my group members put our model against a big sanding machine thereby pretty much evaporating it within 2 seconds. The only think I thought was oh shit those people get medical degrees, too. If I ever get sick I'm screwed.
IF a certain marker is aligned with another distinct point, THEN a certain result is produced. IF that marker is aligned with a different point, it produces a different result(ELSIF). If it doesn't align with a marker at all you get your ELSE. The only limitation is that the inputs are restricted to those available on the mechanism.
There's no value added. It's like saying it's true because it's true and it's true because it's not false.
The computer should be able to change its program based on a previous result. That's what "if then else" is all about. The antikythera can not do that.
I forgot to say that a jump was referred to as backing or advancing the punched cards. This could be either unconditional as conditional. Conditional jumping is a way for the machine to "change its program".
I agree. It's an orrery. It's not something we would call a computer today, however amazing it is. Babbage's Difference Engine wasn't a computer in that sense too. The Difference Engine is more like an ALU. Today, two Difference Engines are in existance, one is in the science museum in London, the other one will be shipped to some MicroSoft billionaire anytime soon. The machine is about GBP 1 million. Babbage's Analytical Engine, however, that's what we would call a computer today. A real nice box of tricks. The Analytical Engine was somewhat bigger and somewhat more complex. For example, the difference engine is an adding machine. This in itself is enough to make a computer out of, but the AE also had dedicated mechanisms to multiply and divide 50 digit decimal numbers in about 3 minutes upon request of a punched card. Babbage also got rid of the ripple carry we all learn about in elementary school and created something that could add the same 50 digit numbers in 2 steps (adding all numbers, then adding all carries at once by linking 9's next to each other mechanically). I've no idea what it would cost to make it today. It was also never finished, but part of the ALU has been built by Babbage (and later his son did some work too). Babbage called the ALU the mill and the memory the store, concepts that were taken from the weaving industry. He also used somthing similar to the Jacquard loom to read the punched cards.
It is not what you can do, it is what people thing you can do. Make a lot of noise while working. Walk around a lot. Laugh really hard about other people's jokes. And you're job secure until you retire.
It may take a few days of patent search (not really fun to do, but ok), to find that your ideas have all been patented 100+ years ago already. And thus being in the public domain. Problem solved.
I don't care. As long as the TV commercials keep showing chimneys with colorful flowers coming out and lovely bunnies next to it and all to keep my conscious from nagging me.
Edison created something that could actually be used. That is including the electrical grid, switches, powermeters, bulb fitting and so on that was all needed to make the bulb glow. All this stuff didn't really exist back then. And a lot of new inventions that came out of that were indeed patented.
I think the patent system is put to good use in this case. If it were for Swan or some other introvert nerd, we would still be reading by candlelight.
Open 40 MB harddisk Carefully take out read/write head File off some material off said read/write head Carefully insert read/write head Close 1 TB harddisk Profit
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I have a question and I am writing to you for help. My question is about bones. More specifically, about human bones. My question is what is the number of bones in the human body?
Yeah ok, but you're talking about the bad climate change. The one that is only applicable to the lefties and the poor. It won't effect us. We have the good climate change.
Claytronics for example need further miniaturization. Tiny dust specs that communicate with other specs to barbapappa-build any product you'll ever need.
>> Indeed Einstein did not work in complete isolation: Much of the mathematical framework for the >> theory of relativity was explored by Poincare and Lorentz.
That's true for special relativity. I'm not sure whether that's true for general relativity, which was rather an exceptional find.
In a book from when I was little, edison apparently invented a motor that was powered by the human voice that was powerful enough, once brought in motion, to drill a hole in a wall. If I remember correctly
You are joking, right? "User experience guidelines" from a company that
This is ridiculous. You've obviously never worked with SAP or (much worse) in-house software. What you're doing is whining that the goose liver in the Christmas hamper is such a small can.
I sure wish people would stop inventing their own user interfaces. Instead just follow the conventions of your operating system. The sluggish and unfriendly custom interfaces I encounter in my day to day work makes me age two times as fast and makes me do my job four times as slow. We don't need a reinvented GUI, we need programmers that enforce just that little bit of GUI hygiene in the first place.
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I'm not into the medical field, but while in university doing engineering one of my group members put our model against a big sanding machine thereby pretty much evaporating it within 2 seconds. The only think I thought was oh shit those people get medical degrees, too. If I ever get sick I'm screwed.
Thought about faraday, too. It looks cool, but it reminds me of another device that is small already and existed since the dawn of the cold war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
Darn, I knew I shouldn't trust wiki!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan
turkey 0.24 [g/100 g of food]
milk 0.08 [g/100 g of food]
How I read it. Long life. No sex.
*eat banana and 4 eggs at same time*
IF a certain marker is aligned with another distinct point, THEN a certain result is produced. IF that marker is aligned with a different point, it produces a different result(ELSIF). If it doesn't align with a marker at all you get your ELSE. The only limitation is that the inputs are restricted to those available on the mechanism.
There's no value added. It's like saying it's true because it's true and it's true because it's not false.
The computer should be able to change its program based on a previous result. That's what "if then else" is all about. The antikythera can not do that.
I forgot to say that a jump was referred to as backing or advancing the punched cards. This could be either unconditional as conditional. Conditional jumping is a way for the machine to "change its program".
I agree. It's an orrery. It's not something we would call a computer today, however amazing it is. Babbage's Difference Engine wasn't a computer in that sense too. The Difference Engine is more like an ALU. Today, two Difference Engines are in existance, one is in the science museum in London, the other one will be shipped to some MicroSoft billionaire anytime soon. The machine is about GBP 1 million. Babbage's Analytical Engine, however, that's what we would call a computer today. A real nice box of tricks. The Analytical Engine was somewhat bigger and somewhat more complex. For example, the difference engine is an adding machine. This in itself is enough to make a computer out of, but the AE also had dedicated mechanisms to multiply and divide 50 digit decimal numbers in about 3 minutes upon request of a punched card. Babbage also got rid of the ripple carry we all learn about in elementary school and created something that could add the same 50 digit numbers in 2 steps (adding all numbers, then adding all carries at once by linking 9's next to each other mechanically). I've no idea what it would cost to make it today. It was also never finished, but part of the ALU has been built by Babbage (and later his son did some work too). Babbage called the ALU the mill and the memory the store, concepts that were taken from the weaving industry. He also used somthing similar to the Jacquard loom to read the punched cards.
It is not what you can do, it is what people thing you can do. Make a lot of noise while working. Walk around a lot. Laugh really hard about other people's jokes. And you're job secure until you retire.
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Whoah! Free materials! *sits patiently at bottom of Great Basin National Park mountain with extra large set of Allen keys*
It may take a few days of patent search (not really fun to do, but ok), to find that your ideas have all been patented 100+ years ago already. And thus being in the public domain. Problem solved.
I don't care. As long as the TV commercials keep showing chimneys with colorful flowers coming out and lovely bunnies next to it and all to keep my conscious from nagging me.
Edison created something that could actually be used. That is including the electrical grid, switches, powermeters, bulb fitting and so on that was all needed to make the bulb glow. All this stuff didn't really exist back then. And a lot of new inventions that came out of that were indeed patented.
I think the patent system is put to good use in this case. If it were for Swan or some other introvert nerd, we would still be reading by candlelight.
Open 40 MB harddisk
Carefully take out read/write head
File off some material off said read/write head
Carefully insert read/write head
Close 1 TB harddisk
Profit
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Dear Wolfram Alpha:
I have a question and I am writing to you for help. My question is about bones. More specifically, about human bones. My question is what is the number of bones in the human body?
I look forward to your reply.
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http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=1797&category=5487&title=05068_00
Funny that the camera, the flag and the car on the moon are the last human traces to disappear.
I really want to know how far a stack of paper with this much data would stretch.
Paper or DVD leaflets?
Who cares how many DVDs? How many Libraries of Congress is it, that's what I want to know.
And can it be used to make calls from a public telephone?
Yeah ok, but you're talking about the bad climate change. The one that is only applicable to the lefties and the poor. It won't effect us. We have the good climate change.
Claytronics for example need further miniaturization. Tiny dust specs that communicate with other specs to barbapappa-build any product you'll ever need.
>> Indeed Einstein did not work in complete isolation: Much of the mathematical framework for the
>> theory of relativity was explored by Poincare and Lorentz.
That's true for special relativity. I'm not sure whether that's true for general relativity, which was rather an exceptional find.
In a book from when I was little, edison apparently invented a motor that was powered by the human voice that was powerful enough, once brought in motion, to drill a hole in a wall. If I remember correctly
>> 1000 screaming people worth of energy
That's would make a great label on my energy meter
You are joking, right? "User experience guidelines" from a company that
This is ridiculous. You've obviously never worked with SAP or (much worse) in-house software. What you're doing is whining that the goose liver in the Christmas hamper is such a small can.
I sure wish people would stop inventing their own user interfaces. Instead just follow the conventions of your operating system. The sluggish and unfriendly custom interfaces I encounter in my day to day work makes me age two times as fast and makes me do my job four times as slow. We don't need a reinvented GUI, we need programmers that enforce just that little bit of GUI hygiene in the first place.