Who else had a long vertical orientation to the monitor, knowing it was a better way to work? Xerox PARC.
Ok, if it was so awesome and so useful, why did it not catch on? Oh yeah, because only a small segment of computer users saw it that way. Coders have been bitching about this for decades. They bitched when they only had 480 lines and now they're bitching over 1080 lines. And then they covet 200 extra pixels? WTF?!?! If you are so hard up for vertical real estate that you covet a monitor with 200 extra vertical pixels you have some serious reality problems, as in you ain't living in it. If you have a desktop, stack monitors vertically if you need to scroll like a fiend all the time. Me, I use the "Find" command. Lovely invention to speed up scrolling through long documents on a computer screen. I just don't understand, as a fellow developer, the constant din over vertical scrolling. If it's that much of a problem for you, maybe go do something else for a living. It's really not that difficult to work around. Hell, if necessary, write a piece of code that splits the window across the screen horizontally so you see more of the document at once on a wide screen. That way you get twice or more the amount of text on a screen at one time. Again, bitch less, fix more if it's that important to you.
Screw super high res. Just give me laptops with resolution better than 1366 x 768 at 13" at least without the need to pay through the nose for this alleged "luxury".
It's not a luxury, it's economy of scale. The manufacturers of display panels get orders from a vast majority of vendors for standard sizes, currently those are in the 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio. Anything outside the normal lots of hundreds of thousands to millions are going to be "specialty" panels and will come in lot sizes that are much smaller and as a consequence cost more. In most laptops, the screen is still one of the most expensive single components. You want one out of the normal-for-the-era size then make sure your nose is clear.
Me, I think the whole argument is ridiculous. If you want more screen real estate, buy another screen, not a bigger laptop. There will never be a complete solution for people with display height issues as there will always be some application or workflow that "needs more". How we write text is tied to top-to-bottom progression in most languages. It's ridiculous to keep bitching about something that isn't really anyone's fault, it's the nature of the work being done. If you need more scrolling real estate, stack monitors vertically. If you want to take that "on-the-road", buy a RV, or maybe invent something for that niche market that needs ridiculous vertical screen real estate. I think the reason something hasn't been done about this is because there isn't a large enough market to make it worth doing. That whole economy of scale thing again.
One possible reason for the silence is that academic researchers get most of their money from the Government, and certainly cryptographers are funded through the three letter agencies (DoD, DHS, CIA, NSA, etc.). Why on Earth would they speak up and potentially ruin their academic careers? You can be outspoken when you are high-profile and have already made full Professor and have a comfortable life. If you're an assistant or associate professor, you're not rocking the boat too much if you want to keep going. Get on the bad side of a funding agency and you can kiss a fruitful career good bye in academic research.
I can still tell when a CRT is turned on in another room
Oh yeah, dammit this used to drive me nuts when i was younger.. Now I'm pretty close to 30 and... to be honest I haven't been near a CRT in/ages/ so I really can't tell whether I'd still hear it.
I am 42. I can still hear them. It is nice that there are less of them, as them cutting on and off was a mild distraction.
And here we go again: someone claims that "if something is not completely perfect, it's completely useless".
Look, even if someone gets local access to your files, you are still less fucked if some of them are encrypted.
True, but that "less" would be about 0.0001% less fucked. Fucked is fucked. There really isn't a partial to it when it comes to data security. That one pretty much is a "is" or "isn't". Local access to files is a lot more fucked than one unencrypted file. About 1,000,000% more fucked.
with the subtropical Mordor region being more like Los Angeles or western Texas.
I do believe that anyone that bothered to read the books would know that Mordor was arid, volcanic in climate, hardly subtropical. L.A. is temperate bordering on semi-arid, and West Texas is certainly semi-arid to arid, a bit more like Mordor minus the volcanoes, fishers and orcs. (And, did I forget to mention the giant spider, spawn of Ungoliant at the back door?) That Mordor? Texas ain't anything like that Mordor. But, then again there is evil that lives there. Hmmmm....
Engineer: "Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
In time, governments will try to tax and control it, perhaps even stopping colonization or private enterprise, probably even cheered on by some around here who, one presumes, were completely down with Europe looting the New World to feed their governments' voracious appetites for cash, dead-set against any colonies not their own, much less independence.
Huh, what?!?!?! See this. Ownership has been declared and agreed that the moon belongs--literally--to everyone. Unless you want to renegotiate that (good luck, you're gonna need it) or start a very nasty war, mining the moon or colonizing the moon are out. Plus, you'll have protests and backlash the likes of which God has never seen.
I am just taking a stab in the dark here as I don't really know, but maybe there are a lot of "MS Stack software" developers in the home of MS. If they got a ton of them already in town why import more?
I have been in academia for more than twenty years and can say without a doubt that being around experts in a field cannot be replaced.
What happens if you want to do something interesting in the field and can't afford to chill with experts for twenty years?
Then computational neuroscience is not going to be your bag. I also learned in this time that coming to college doesn't always mean graduating with a degree in order to find out what you want to do with the rest of your life. But, if you want to do scientific research and have any impact then you should go the research and academia route. If you want to just play, go play. You don't have to be an enrolled student to go to the library and read journals, although a lot of them are no longer printed so sooner would be better. If you're that enthusiastic about it you could always subscribe to a few journals. Here's a few to look at:
That last one is a list of pertinent journals in the field.
The most important thing to get out of college *is* figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life. If that's dropping out to start your own neuroscience company then by all means go forth and conquer!
Mod parent up! I have been in academia for more than twenty years and can say without a doubt that being around experts in a field cannot be replaced. That is not to say there aren't Ramanujans and Rain Men out there, those that have natural abilities to learn and the idiot savants. Computational neuroscience isn't something you lightly tread into as a hobby and think you're going to contribute to anything more than learning how difficult it is to do. If you want to contribute and you think you have the chops, get involved in a degree program where you can do research that is focused on areas that interest you. These faculty members have web pages that list their areas of research and sometimes their affiliations (NIH, CDC, DOD, etc.). It's not hard to find the people doing the research that you'd like to do. It is hard to actually have the chops to enter the program and get in the game. Otherwise, I'd look for programming jobs for those same research groups. The larger ones will most likely have openings from time-to-time. You may be able to back in by getting another job somewhere on the campus and then building up connections for a future opening with the group you want to work with.
Technologies come and go. I didn't see folks up in arms when the roaming knife sharpeners and milk delivery men went out of business. Those going away destroyed jobs. Moving from POTS to digital IP-based communications is a good thing. The digital service can be restored a lot faster, and there are excellent cell phone tower replacements.
The only thing really lost is local 911 services. Those things were a disaster waiting to happen, anyway, as the cost of the analog infrastructure was killing localities as they tried to grow. Something better needs to be implemented and sooner is always better than later.
The one advantage POTS has is that it does take a court order for them to tap the line. But, I am guessing that laws will be changing soon and some of our privacy and security concerns will get addressed. Again, sooner is always better than later.
Wish I had mod points. Was going to say, "Have you looked at what Amazon has available?" I know computational chemists that designed workflows like what the OP is talking about, so I know it is well documented somewhere. [cough, cough]
If you need gadget electronics, none of them! If you need PC, laptop for home, some listed above but still be careful. If you need enterprise hardware, get an eval unit from the manufacturer and test it yourself for what you need then read reviews of their customer service and support. Nothing beats first-hand product experience and your own judgement when it comes to high ticket items. Also, ask people that are support persons for your organization's IT department. We/They unwittingly test products in the crucible of the workplace and can tell you what is crap, what manufacturers to avoid and what retailers have better prices.
1. Nowhere to plug in at home. (Live in apartment in rural town)
2. Charging infrastructure. (Of the dozen gas stations within a five minute drive one has a charging station)
3. Initial vehicle cost for one with adequate range to compete with gasoline powered vehicles.
4. Battery lifespan.
Having battery swap stations and standardized battery technology would eliminate all but the cost issue from above. Just producing the cars is not enough, and plug-in chargers work for leisurely drives but not work commutes nor the average American's hurried lifestyle. Then there is the 30% - 40% of Americans (like myself) that don't own a home with a garage, or an older existing home and can't afford to add a 220v line to the garage. It will be difficult for the masses to own electric cars until a ubiquitous infrastructure, like that existing for gasoline cars for decades, is built up and can support more than leisure driving or the more affluent owners that can afford electric cars today.
His whole question and narrative is telling. This is obviously someone that has no idea what he is doing nor why. He is also most likely in violation of Wolfram's license agreement on top of his lack of computational knowledge. He should have stopped at web statistics and stayed there.
I thought that the firing pin and the bullets were still metal and therefore detectable?
You are correct, sir. That's why this hysteria is a little silly. The bullet casing would not only set off a metal detector it would show up in x-ray or body scanning machines as well. There is no place to hide the most dangerous part of a gun, the ammunition, so why worry about secured areas. The worst thing this bypasses is the background check and waiting period. Not to say that's not a concern, but a plastic gun that may fire one to eight bullets before being inert is no AK-47 or AR-15. In the grand scheme "real" guns still pose a greater risk to public safety.
It wont do anything for you more than add to your superiority complex over the "eager beavers".
Who said anything about being superior to anyone else? I was talking about juvenile, irrational needs and how marketing hype leads to foolish buying decisions. On your other flimsy point, you seem to be trying to come up with something to cover, i.e., being defensive. Do you have a pulsing blue space heater, perhaps?
The light hearted heckling about using slide rules later on varies from humorous to insightful. Some of the discussion by people about not needing calculators, or about the often debated issue on using calculators for testing can also be insightful. That is rather different than someone being an asshole because they purposely misunderstand what is being done here and/or because they value complaining more than actually adding to the conversation or even value it more than their own time they could save by ignoring the story.
Or the time wasted not looking for a calculator and pouring over/. posts? Yeah, productive use of time. Or, was it about the whining and having to ask/. when their precious programmable calculator isn't allowed in a test? Which one was the better use of time?
If I had mod points, you'd be king! I pretty much stated the same thing above, but added a square root button as those can be tricky to keep straight. I want to also thank my 11th grade pre-calculus teacher for making us do things the long way. Mr. Raines, you were a hardass but you really did help us out. We had add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root and I think he allowed Pi buttons as well. That's it because that's all you really "need" if you know what you're doing. After that it was how fast could you write legibly as you thought the problem out. Programmable calculators are for wusses and cheats in my book. Never used one, never will.
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Who else had a long vertical orientation to the monitor, knowing it was a better way to work? Xerox PARC.
Ok, if it was so awesome and so useful, why did it not catch on? Oh yeah, because only a small segment of computer users saw it that way. Coders have been bitching about this for decades. They bitched when they only had 480 lines and now they're bitching over 1080 lines. And then they covet 200 extra pixels? WTF?!?! If you are so hard up for vertical real estate that you covet a monitor with 200 extra vertical pixels you have some serious reality problems, as in you ain't living in it. If you have a desktop, stack monitors vertically if you need to scroll like a fiend all the time. Me, I use the "Find" command. Lovely invention to speed up scrolling through long documents on a computer screen. I just don't understand, as a fellow developer, the constant din over vertical scrolling. If it's that much of a problem for you, maybe go do something else for a living. It's really not that difficult to work around. Hell, if necessary, write a piece of code that splits the window across the screen horizontally so you see more of the document at once on a wide screen. That way you get twice or more the amount of text on a screen at one time. Again, bitch less, fix more if it's that important to you.
Screw super high res. Just give me laptops with resolution better than 1366 x 768 at 13" at least without the need to pay through the nose for this alleged "luxury".
It's not a luxury, it's economy of scale. The manufacturers of display panels get orders from a vast majority of vendors for standard sizes, currently those are in the 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio. Anything outside the normal lots of hundreds of thousands to millions are going to be "specialty" panels and will come in lot sizes that are much smaller and as a consequence cost more. In most laptops, the screen is still one of the most expensive single components. You want one out of the normal-for-the-era size then make sure your nose is clear.
Me, I think the whole argument is ridiculous. If you want more screen real estate, buy another screen, not a bigger laptop. There will never be a complete solution for people with display height issues as there will always be some application or workflow that "needs more". How we write text is tied to top-to-bottom progression in most languages. It's ridiculous to keep bitching about something that isn't really anyone's fault, it's the nature of the work being done. If you need more scrolling real estate, stack monitors vertically. If you want to take that "on-the-road", buy a RV, or maybe invent something for that niche market that needs ridiculous vertical screen real estate. I think the reason something hasn't been done about this is because there isn't a large enough market to make it worth doing. That whole economy of scale thing again.
One possible reason for the silence is that academic researchers get most of their money from the Government, and certainly cryptographers are funded through the three letter agencies (DoD, DHS, CIA, NSA, etc.). Why on Earth would they speak up and potentially ruin their academic careers? You can be outspoken when you are high-profile and have already made full Professor and have a comfortable life. If you're an assistant or associate professor, you're not rocking the boat too much if you want to keep going. Get on the bad side of a funding agency and you can kiss a fruitful career good bye in academic research.
I've seen dents in the leading edges of the wings just from hitting grasshoppers...
If pilots are doing 500+kts at altitudes reachable by grasshoppers, I'd be worried about the dents caused by trees. And small children.
Wow, 3000 foot tall trees? Would like to see those. Plus, there aren't a whole lot of trees and children on the test range, for good reason.
I can still tell when a CRT is turned on in another room
Oh yeah, dammit this used to drive me nuts when i was younger.. Now I'm pretty close to 30 and ... to be honest I haven't been near a CRT in /ages/ so I really can't tell whether I'd still hear it.
I am 42. I can still hear them. It is nice that there are less of them, as them cutting on and off was a mild distraction.
And here we go again: someone claims that "if something is not completely perfect, it's completely useless".
Look, even if someone gets local access to your files, you are still less fucked if some of them are encrypted.
True, but that "less" would be about 0.0001% less fucked. Fucked is fucked. There really isn't a partial to it when it comes to data security. That one pretty much is a "is" or "isn't". Local access to files is a lot more fucked than one unencrypted file. About 1,000,000% more fucked.
with the subtropical Mordor region being more like Los Angeles or western Texas.
I do believe that anyone that bothered to read the books would know that Mordor was arid, volcanic in climate, hardly subtropical. L.A. is temperate bordering on semi-arid, and West Texas is certainly semi-arid to arid, a bit more like Mordor minus the volcanoes, fishers and orcs. (And, did I forget to mention the giant spider, spawn of Ungoliant at the back door?) That Mordor? Texas ain't anything like that Mordor. But, then again there is evil that lives there. Hmmmm....
Senator: "What good is electricity in the house?"
Engineer: "Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
In time, governments will try to tax and control it, perhaps even stopping colonization or private enterprise, probably even cheered on by some around here who, one presumes, were completely down with Europe looting the New World to feed their governments' voracious appetites for cash, dead-set against any colonies not their own, much less independence.
Huh, what?!?!?! See this. Ownership has been declared and agreed that the moon belongs--literally--to everyone. Unless you want to renegotiate that (good luck, you're gonna need it) or start a very nasty war, mining the moon or colonizing the moon are out. Plus, you'll have protests and backlash the likes of which God has never seen.
I believe the British would say that applying for a MS IT position in Seattle is like "carrying coals to Newcastle"...
Touché
MS Stack software developer
I am just taking a stab in the dark here as I don't really know, but maybe there are a lot of "MS Stack software" developers in the home of MS. If they got a ton of them already in town why import more?
I have been in academia for more than twenty years and can say without a doubt that being around experts in a field cannot be replaced.
What happens if you want to do something interesting in the field and can't afford to chill with experts for twenty years?
Then computational neuroscience is not going to be your bag. I also learned in this time that coming to college doesn't always mean graduating with a degree in order to find out what you want to do with the rest of your life. But, if you want to do scientific research and have any impact then you should go the research and academia route. If you want to just play, go play. You don't have to be an enrolled student to go to the library and read journals, although a lot of them are no longer printed so sooner would be better. If you're that enthusiastic about it you could always subscribe to a few journals. Here's a few to look at:
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/10827
http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_neuroscience
http://www.cnsorg.org/journals
That last one is a list of pertinent journals in the field.
The most important thing to get out of college *is* figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life. If that's dropping out to start your own neuroscience company then by all means go forth and conquer!
Mod parent up! I have been in academia for more than twenty years and can say without a doubt that being around experts in a field cannot be replaced. That is not to say there aren't Ramanujans and Rain Men out there, those that have natural abilities to learn and the idiot savants. Computational neuroscience isn't something you lightly tread into as a hobby and think you're going to contribute to anything more than learning how difficult it is to do. If you want to contribute and you think you have the chops, get involved in a degree program where you can do research that is focused on areas that interest you. These faculty members have web pages that list their areas of research and sometimes their affiliations (NIH, CDC, DOD, etc.). It's not hard to find the people doing the research that you'd like to do. It is hard to actually have the chops to enter the program and get in the game. Otherwise, I'd look for programming jobs for those same research groups. The larger ones will most likely have openings from time-to-time. You may be able to back in by getting another job somewhere on the campus and then building up connections for a future opening with the group you want to work with.
Technologies come and go. I didn't see folks up in arms when the roaming knife sharpeners and milk delivery men went out of business. Those going away destroyed jobs. Moving from POTS to digital IP-based communications is a good thing. The digital service can be restored a lot faster, and there are excellent cell phone tower replacements.
The only thing really lost is local 911 services. Those things were a disaster waiting to happen, anyway, as the cost of the analog infrastructure was killing localities as they tried to grow. Something better needs to be implemented and sooner is always better than later.
The one advantage POTS has is that it does take a court order for them to tap the line. But, I am guessing that laws will be changing soon and some of our privacy and security concerns will get addressed. Again, sooner is always better than later.
Wish I had mod points. Was going to say, "Have you looked at what Amazon has available?" I know computational chemists that designed workflows like what the OP is talking about, so I know it is well documented somewhere. [cough, cough]
Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted
Thank heaven for that! Somebody pass the corn please.
If you need gadget electronics, none of them! If you need PC, laptop for home, some listed above but still be careful. If you need enterprise hardware, get an eval unit from the manufacturer and test it yourself for what you need then read reviews of their customer service and support. Nothing beats first-hand product experience and your own judgement when it comes to high ticket items. Also, ask people that are support persons for your organization's IT department. We/They unwittingly test products in the crucible of the workplace and can tell you what is crap, what manufacturers to avoid and what retailers have better prices.
1. Nowhere to plug in at home. (Live in apartment in rural town)
2. Charging infrastructure. (Of the dozen gas stations within a five minute drive one has a charging station)
3. Initial vehicle cost for one with adequate range to compete with gasoline powered vehicles.
4. Battery lifespan.
Having battery swap stations and standardized battery technology would eliminate all but the cost issue from above. Just producing the cars is not enough, and plug-in chargers work for leisurely drives but not work commutes nor the average American's hurried lifestyle. Then there is the 30% - 40% of Americans (like myself) that don't own a home with a garage, or an older existing home and can't afford to add a 220v line to the garage. It will be difficult for the masses to own electric cars until a ubiquitous infrastructure, like that existing for gasoline cars for decades, is built up and can support more than leisure driving or the more affluent owners that can afford electric cars today.
His whole question and narrative is telling. This is obviously someone that has no idea what he is doing nor why. He is also most likely in violation of Wolfram's license agreement on top of his lack of computational knowledge. He should have stopped at web statistics and stayed there.
Key word there is "metal". Trust me they'd spot a bullet no matter how hard you tried to conceal it. They're really not *that* inept.
And if you have access to a high-density ceramic you don't need a 3D printed gun. The black powder would be detected.
I thought that the firing pin and the bullets were still metal and therefore detectable?
You are correct, sir. That's why this hysteria is a little silly. The bullet casing would not only set off a metal detector it would show up in x-ray or body scanning machines as well. There is no place to hide the most dangerous part of a gun, the ammunition, so why worry about secured areas. The worst thing this bypasses is the background check and waiting period. Not to say that's not a concern, but a plastic gun that may fire one to eight bullets before being inert is no AK-47 or AR-15. In the grand scheme "real" guns still pose a greater risk to public safety.
that doesn't last long if your Rev A model keeps BSODing.
This time it isn't BSOD, but PBDS (Pulsing blue dickpunch of sadness).
What's the difference? Both cause no gaming outcomes, and BSOD has precedence.
It wont do anything for you more than add to your superiority complex over the "eager beavers".
Who said anything about being superior to anyone else? I was talking about juvenile, irrational needs and how marketing hype leads to foolish buying decisions. On your other flimsy point, you seem to be trying to come up with something to cover, i.e., being defensive. Do you have a pulsing blue space heater, perhaps?
The light hearted heckling about using slide rules later on varies from humorous to insightful. Some of the discussion by people about not needing calculators, or about the often debated issue on using calculators for testing can also be insightful. That is rather different than someone being an asshole because they purposely misunderstand what is being done here and/or because they value complaining more than actually adding to the conversation or even value it more than their own time they could save by ignoring the story.
Or the time wasted not looking for a calculator and pouring over /. posts? Yeah, productive use of time. Or, was it about the whining and having to ask /. when their precious programmable calculator isn't allowed in a test? Which one was the better use of time?
If I had mod points, you'd be king! I pretty much stated the same thing above, but added a square root button as those can be tricky to keep straight. I want to also thank my 11th grade pre-calculus teacher for making us do things the long way. Mr. Raines, you were a hardass but you really did help us out. We had add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root and I think he allowed Pi buttons as well. That's it because that's all you really "need" if you know what you're doing. After that it was how fast could you write legibly as you thought the problem out. Programmable calculators are for wusses and cheats in my book. Never used one, never will.