It seems that he's got ideas for mobile testing locations. Now, 80 degrees N/S doesn't seem like that great of a place to go, but it's somewhere where we don't have to put it on a rocket, which would require more funding. The materials (from TFA) that he proposes wouldn't be too terribly expensive to cart to Greenland/Antartica versus launching it onto the ISS.
Again, it's probably worth setting up some theoretical physicists up on top of a glacier just for the hilarity of it. But most of them are probably Russians, and used to the cold...
Wholeheartedly agree with ya, although the TI-89 might make you lazy in calculus (as in not learning how to correct differentiate and integrate because of use of the built-in functions.) And, unlike others in this thread, I've never had a college or grad school professor ask me about what calculator I'm using and explicitly ban them. Plus, Pheonix rocks.
Oh, and in the sciences, we also use MATLAB and FORTRAN (at least in Atmospheric Science), but IDL/PVWAVE is gaining (and is purely evil...)
The fact of the matter is that there already is a National ID standard... it's called a passport. You need one to travel to any non-NAFTA country, and soon you'll need one even for Canada and Mexico. Don't people realize that a passport is a national ID standard and works for any case (beer, smokes, etc?)
Yeah, it definitely could be a combination of all manners of cycles. That's the thing about climate shifts- there are so many variables interacting, that some interact in very different ways.
I wrote a summary paper a few years ago for a seminar about a theory of frequency modulation of the Milankovitch cycles to help solve some of the classic Milankovitch "problems". Here's a link for it:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/285 /5427/564. Looking at the followup research, Dr. Rial has done both frequency modulation to see what he can do with the three main Milankovitch cycles (that being orbital eccentricity (changing in how "oval" the Earth's orbit is, every 100,000 and 400,000 years), planetary precession (changing the location of the seasons, so that the Northern Hemisphere winter moves from January to January over the course of 21,000 years) and the planet's obliquity (changes in the tilt of the earth from 22.5 degrees to 24.5 degrees, over a course of 41,000 years).
Through this frequency modulation, he was able to produce a signal very close the delta-O 18 ratios found for the Vostok core in Antartica. His theory also was able to "demodulate" the Vostok core to get peaks at 41kyr (kyr = 1000 years), 100kyr, and 21kyr as predicted by the classic Milankovitch cycles.
While these solar fluctuations may exist (and I'm not an astronomer, just a meteorology/atmospheric science/climatology PhD student) I'd prefer to firm them up before they replace the classical orbital mechanisms that we know exist. Whether they cause the Ice Ages or not, they are present in the orbital path.
In my tech support days, we took walk-ins from all around campus with corrupted floppy drives. We always recommended that they switch over to flash drives to get rid of this constant problem. Then, a few weeks later, someone brought in a 1 GB corrupted flash drive... and we sat there for an hour as BadCopy Pro did its work.
Norton Disk Doctor, BadCopy Pro work very well at file recovery from failed disks that say that they need to be reformatted before they are read. They're old tools, to be sure, but they still work on whoever has a floppy and they also work on flash drives. Sure, they can be slow (sometimes it took 10-15 min to recover a single floppy, an hour to recover said 1 GB flash drive) but they really do the trick and will be able to recover the files pretty well.
Well, thank God that they lifted the laptop restrictions. Sure, my one-year old Inspiron isn't worth much anymore, but it's still worth something to me... and I'm flying to London this Saturday. What fun for this stuff to go on right before I leave...
This is just a pure no-brainer. Let's say that I live on the border of France and Belgium... if the two countries are on different frequencies, I'm going to be SOL on a lot of the services that are going to be brought around with the huge bandwith sale. In the US, the bandwith works because it's standardized across the nation (hence you can go coast-to-coast on your cell phone on the same fricking network). In the EU, this just makes sense to have this same model, because of the area involved. Having your cellphone work in England as well as Turkey should be a good boost for this plan.
There are some things with total hard drive storage... for example, a text file (ASCII character) takes the same amount of bytes to store it, no matter what. Also, the amount of data needed to fill up that single drive seems to go up so much more then it used to. For example, I have a 60 GB hard drive on my laptop (mid-level one year old Dell) that was actually an upgrade from the standard. There will continue to be a disparity of need for that storage in the immediate term (for some reason, I don't remember 60 MB hard drives being shipped still with units when 750 MB was brand new... but I could be wrong)... so data uses keep around the same.
Think about it- a MP3 will always be around 5 MB (even at high bitrate). For this drive, that would be 25,000 MP3s on a SINGLE DRIVE. We'll see how Moore's Law pans out... but there is a limit, eventually, with our data (although not for a while) and our ability to fill drives.
More hot air...
It's hilarious, as a grad student in the atmospheric sciences, how compartmentalized this beleif is.
I work with geologists, glaciologists, climatologists, and meteorologists all days, and there are several signs that warming is occuring- the most convincing being the melt of tropical glaciers, of which all of them are melting. I know this because I've examined the satellite photography myself, and modeled the glacial decline.
This gets the geologists and glaciologists into the mix.
The climate databases almost always show a climatological rise, so the climatologists are in on it.
However, teh real-time meteorologists really don't think it's occuring- and if you think that they don't know what's going on, these are the people that are forecasting your weather all day. Go figure...
Sounds like everyone needs that new MacBook alarm that enables itself through the FrontRow... http://youtube.com/watch?v=KkAtRfA1UXc if you haven't seen it yet...
The problem with DRM is the compatibility issues between players. most MP3 players will only play the certain files for those certain players- and because of that, it sucks if you're stuck with a wrong one. If people open their DRM schemes to allow playing on other devices, people will then share music again.
We're only 6-7 years removed from the Napster area- however, in 10-15 years, we most likely won't even think about sharing music- it'll all be in the past.
I wholeheartedly respect this opinion- and it is true, science had very little to deal with the article.
We can look back of the studies of sexuality really to Kinsey's sexual studies at the University of Indiana. When he first started teaching the course, you had to be married to take it- which prompted several students to get married on the spot and present their marraige certificate to register. This has been shown in movies as being the start of a "sexual revolution".
That is actual science. Some psychology-bullcrap arguments that state "Well, we think this is true because of these abberant cases" is not, and needs to be examined in a scientific light.
I respect that you don't view porn, and are completely normal. You're also married at 24, which is a little young today (although really, it sounds about right). The problem that comes around with porn is in the stereotypically "geeky" guys... the ones who smell, don't shower, play D&D all night, and bitch and moan about not being able to get a girlfriend. It is these geeks (which we all share characteristics with) that we are embarrassed of- we all know the type. Those are the crazy stalker-types, the ones who cannot be aroused by a girl (if and when they get them) because they have serious problems- I've known of people that were physically unable to perform with a real girl- but they were just fine viewing porn.
To sorta finish this up- not all people look at porn, and not all religious people are brainwashed. However, the vast majority of men do look at porn, and the vast majority of the religious side of things (I'm Catholic, it doesn't count) view anything that derides their religion as being harmful just because they think so. Let's get some scientific evidence on this subject- it'll show we're just fine.
That's true, fully.
But the people buying porn (dirty old men with money) are also the people buying game systems for their kids or for themselves. With the PS2 having a built-in, no extra cost (ala Xbox) DVD player, it reached more people to try the new format and be able to view that type of medium. With PS3 coming up with the Blu-Ray, it will be in more living rooms then the HD-DVD player off the bat (as long as it doesn't suck and isn't insanely expensive... and the jury is out on both counts for that).
For my own use, I'll probably get a PS3, and use that as my DVD/Blu-Ray player. And since I don't buy movies all that often, I'm not going to really see a big price difference (and being a poor student for the rest of my life, I won't have the money for a big fancy HDTV, and just go with a TV tuner card) but still ahve the early-adopter tag.
Man, PETA's gonna have a field day with this one. However, it shows just how cool science can be. To actually be able to manipulate the mind of a shark for military purpose... instead of just to see what it does- it's kinda scary, however, it's also kinda useful.
New movie idea... the world of the future... where man does not fight, but uses it's mind-controlled shark bombers (with or without laser beams) to nuke the new commies... whomever the new commies would be (prob the French)
What fun.
I liked how in the article itself it said "There is no patch for user error." I call it removing their Banzai Buddy and smacking them upside the head with a keyboard.
It also makes a statement on the true quality of patent applications out there- I could literally draw a design in poop and send it in and if it was techinically feasible, hold the patent for it... and then if Microsoft came out with my design for this new wonderful machine or software idea (whatever it may be) I could tell Bill Gates where to go... hmmm... interesting idea...
Microsoft doesn't care about the move over to Vista- when it starts selling it, it'll buy it. Why not just have XP over now, so that people buy it... and then people buy it again when Vista comes out? Make twice the money, half the time... (and it sounds like the Apple approach to OS... make a new one every year and have everyone shell out $100 for it)
The thing that we all have to look for is the involvement of Microsoft. Connectix used the Virtual PC app for a while, but it ran slow and clunky (back in the day of the 604e processor, it simulated like a Pentium MMX). Apple has also created dual-boot systems sharing the same hard drive in the past- one just has to look at the ill-fated Powermac 7200/Pentium machine where the Intel hardware was on a PCI card and alt-tab would go from being a Mac to Win95. These systems and the programs haven't panned out.
However, Microsoft is the big key. They are just a hegemonic software company- and they don't really care where they sell their copy of Windows, just as long as it sells. If Microsoft comes out with a version of XP that runs natively on the Mac, either in a window or as a dual-boot option, then watch Apple's share of the market grow. Just look to history- Microsoft shipped Virtual PC with Office v.X, and the fact that it could run natively instead of being a simulation. In any case, it's exciting.
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It seems that he's got ideas for mobile testing locations. Now, 80 degrees N/S doesn't seem like that great of a place to go, but it's somewhere where we don't have to put it on a rocket, which would require more funding. The materials (from TFA) that he proposes wouldn't be too terribly expensive to cart to Greenland/Antartica versus launching it onto the ISS.
Again, it's probably worth setting up some theoretical physicists up on top of a glacier just for the hilarity of it. But most of them are probably Russians, and used to the cold...
Wholeheartedly agree with ya, although the TI-89 might make you lazy in calculus (as in not learning how to correct differentiate and integrate because of use of the built-in functions.) And, unlike others in this thread, I've never had a college or grad school professor ask me about what calculator I'm using and explicitly ban them. Plus, Pheonix rocks. Oh, and in the sciences, we also use MATLAB and FORTRAN (at least in Atmospheric Science), but IDL/PVWAVE is gaining (and is purely evil...)
The fact of the matter is that there already is a National ID standard... it's called a passport. You need one to travel to any non-NAFTA country, and soon you'll need one even for Canada and Mexico. Don't people realize that a passport is a national ID standard and works for any case (beer, smokes, etc?)
Yeah, it definitely could be a combination of all manners of cycles. That's the thing about climate shifts- there are so many variables interacting, that some interact in very different ways. I wrote a summary paper a few years ago for a seminar about a theory of frequency modulation of the Milankovitch cycles to help solve some of the classic Milankovitch "problems". Here's a link for it: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/285 /5427/564. Looking at the followup research, Dr. Rial has done both frequency modulation to see what he can do with the three main Milankovitch cycles (that being orbital eccentricity (changing in how "oval" the Earth's orbit is, every 100,000 and 400,000 years), planetary precession (changing the location of the seasons, so that the Northern Hemisphere winter moves from January to January over the course of 21,000 years) and the planet's obliquity (changes in the tilt of the earth from 22.5 degrees to 24.5 degrees, over a course of 41,000 years).
Through this frequency modulation, he was able to produce a signal very close the delta-O 18 ratios found for the Vostok core in Antartica. His theory also was able to "demodulate" the Vostok core to get peaks at 41kyr (kyr = 1000 years), 100kyr, and 21kyr as predicted by the classic Milankovitch cycles.
While these solar fluctuations may exist (and I'm not an astronomer, just a meteorology/atmospheric science/climatology PhD student) I'd prefer to firm them up before they replace the classical orbital mechanisms that we know exist. Whether they cause the Ice Ages or not, they are present in the orbital path.
In my tech support days, we took walk-ins from all around campus with corrupted floppy drives. We always recommended that they switch over to flash drives to get rid of this constant problem. Then, a few weeks later, someone brought in a 1 GB corrupted flash drive... and we sat there for an hour as BadCopy Pro did its work. Norton Disk Doctor, BadCopy Pro work very well at file recovery from failed disks that say that they need to be reformatted before they are read. They're old tools, to be sure, but they still work on whoever has a floppy and they also work on flash drives. Sure, they can be slow (sometimes it took 10-15 min to recover a single floppy, an hour to recover said 1 GB flash drive) but they really do the trick and will be able to recover the files pretty well.
Well, thank God that they lifted the laptop restrictions. Sure, my one-year old Inspiron isn't worth much anymore, but it's still worth something to me... and I'm flying to London this Saturday. What fun for this stuff to go on right before I leave...
This is just a pure no-brainer. Let's say that I live on the border of France and Belgium... if the two countries are on different frequencies, I'm going to be SOL on a lot of the services that are going to be brought around with the huge bandwith sale. In the US, the bandwith works because it's standardized across the nation (hence you can go coast-to-coast on your cell phone on the same fricking network). In the EU, this just makes sense to have this same model, because of the area involved. Having your cellphone work in England as well as Turkey should be a good boost for this plan.
There are some things with total hard drive storage... for example, a text file (ASCII character) takes the same amount of bytes to store it, no matter what. Also, the amount of data needed to fill up that single drive seems to go up so much more then it used to. For example, I have a 60 GB hard drive on my laptop (mid-level one year old Dell) that was actually an upgrade from the standard. There will continue to be a disparity of need for that storage in the immediate term (for some reason, I don't remember 60 MB hard drives being shipped still with units when 750 MB was brand new... but I could be wrong)... so data uses keep around the same. Think about it- a MP3 will always be around 5 MB (even at high bitrate). For this drive, that would be 25,000 MP3s on a SINGLE DRIVE. We'll see how Moore's Law pans out... but there is a limit, eventually, with our data (although not for a while) and our ability to fill drives.
More hot air... It's hilarious, as a grad student in the atmospheric sciences, how compartmentalized this beleif is. I work with geologists, glaciologists, climatologists, and meteorologists all days, and there are several signs that warming is occuring- the most convincing being the melt of tropical glaciers, of which all of them are melting. I know this because I've examined the satellite photography myself, and modeled the glacial decline. This gets the geologists and glaciologists into the mix. The climate databases almost always show a climatological rise, so the climatologists are in on it. However, teh real-time meteorologists really don't think it's occuring- and if you think that they don't know what's going on, these are the people that are forecasting your weather all day. Go figure...
Sounds like everyone needs that new MacBook alarm that enables itself through the FrontRow... http://youtube.com/watch?v=KkAtRfA1UXc if you haven't seen it yet...
The problem with DRM is the compatibility issues between players. most MP3 players will only play the certain files for those certain players- and because of that, it sucks if you're stuck with a wrong one. If people open their DRM schemes to allow playing on other devices, people will then share music again. We're only 6-7 years removed from the Napster area- however, in 10-15 years, we most likely won't even think about sharing music- it'll all be in the past.
I wholeheartedly respect this opinion- and it is true, science had very little to deal with the article. We can look back of the studies of sexuality really to Kinsey's sexual studies at the University of Indiana. When he first started teaching the course, you had to be married to take it- which prompted several students to get married on the spot and present their marraige certificate to register. This has been shown in movies as being the start of a "sexual revolution". That is actual science. Some psychology-bullcrap arguments that state "Well, we think this is true because of these abberant cases" is not, and needs to be examined in a scientific light. I respect that you don't view porn, and are completely normal. You're also married at 24, which is a little young today (although really, it sounds about right). The problem that comes around with porn is in the stereotypically "geeky" guys... the ones who smell, don't shower, play D&D all night, and bitch and moan about not being able to get a girlfriend. It is these geeks (which we all share characteristics with) that we are embarrassed of- we all know the type. Those are the crazy stalker-types, the ones who cannot be aroused by a girl (if and when they get them) because they have serious problems- I've known of people that were physically unable to perform with a real girl- but they were just fine viewing porn. To sorta finish this up- not all people look at porn, and not all religious people are brainwashed. However, the vast majority of men do look at porn, and the vast majority of the religious side of things (I'm Catholic, it doesn't count) view anything that derides their religion as being harmful just because they think so. Let's get some scientific evidence on this subject- it'll show we're just fine.
Dude... it looks like an ancient '70s VHS player... except it's not top-loading.
That's true, fully. But the people buying porn (dirty old men with money) are also the people buying game systems for their kids or for themselves. With the PS2 having a built-in, no extra cost (ala Xbox) DVD player, it reached more people to try the new format and be able to view that type of medium. With PS3 coming up with the Blu-Ray, it will be in more living rooms then the HD-DVD player off the bat (as long as it doesn't suck and isn't insanely expensive... and the jury is out on both counts for that). For my own use, I'll probably get a PS3, and use that as my DVD/Blu-Ray player. And since I don't buy movies all that often, I'm not going to really see a big price difference (and being a poor student for the rest of my life, I won't have the money for a big fancy HDTV, and just go with a TV tuner card) but still ahve the early-adopter tag.
Man, PETA's gonna have a field day with this one. However, it shows just how cool science can be. To actually be able to manipulate the mind of a shark for military purpose... instead of just to see what it does- it's kinda scary, however, it's also kinda useful. New movie idea... the world of the future... where man does not fight, but uses it's mind-controlled shark bombers (with or without laser beams) to nuke the new commies... whomever the new commies would be (prob the French) What fun.
I liked how in the article itself it said "There is no patch for user error." I call it removing their Banzai Buddy and smacking them upside the head with a keyboard.
It also makes a statement on the true quality of patent applications out there- I could literally draw a design in poop and send it in and if it was techinically feasible, hold the patent for it... and then if Microsoft came out with my design for this new wonderful machine or software idea (whatever it may be) I could tell Bill Gates where to go... hmmm... interesting idea...
That, and he wrote a book on farting. No truer American hero could ever do that.
Microsoft doesn't care about the move over to Vista- when it starts selling it, it'll buy it. Why not just have XP over now, so that people buy it... and then people buy it again when Vista comes out? Make twice the money, half the time... (and it sounds like the Apple approach to OS... make a new one every year and have everyone shell out $100 for it)
The thing that we all have to look for is the involvement of Microsoft. Connectix used the Virtual PC app for a while, but it ran slow and clunky (back in the day of the 604e processor, it simulated like a Pentium MMX). Apple has also created dual-boot systems sharing the same hard drive in the past- one just has to look at the ill-fated Powermac 7200/Pentium machine where the Intel hardware was on a PCI card and alt-tab would go from being a Mac to Win95. These systems and the programs haven't panned out. However, Microsoft is the big key. They are just a hegemonic software company- and they don't really care where they sell their copy of Windows, just as long as it sells. If Microsoft comes out with a version of XP that runs natively on the Mac, either in a window or as a dual-boot option, then watch Apple's share of the market grow. Just look to history- Microsoft shipped Virtual PC with Office v.X, and the fact that it could run natively instead of being a simulation. In any case, it's exciting.