It seems that the parties involved (Nokia, HTC, Apple, Blackberry, etc.) are more busy fighting for the money rather than taking care of developing OS and applications. No reasons for me to waste money for replacing my old cellphone and my trusted Filofax with a smartphone.
An underground nuke explosion could severely change the pattern of fractures in the surrounding oil fields. This could cause either an amazing boost of production, or the end of production for most of them. Unfortunately there is no way to predict which outcome is the more likely.
Furthermore, if 1 ton of TNT caused this, can you imagine the effect of a nuke ?!?
Another good reason to keep your Sony is that power consumption for a radio receiver is usually quite small. I just measured the absorption of my radio receiver: it absorbs a mere 0.5 W while keeping the volume high enough to fill the kitchen with music. The internet receiver described in the article if I am right absorbs 2 W while running, 1 in standby. To this you have to add the power needed for powering up your network router, so you probably have to burn about 10 W for listening to the radio. Can we label internet radio as a green technology ?!?
People interested into floating point math will find some very interesting materials and horror stories in the documents collected at the home page of professor William Kahan, the man behind IEEE754 standard.
According to my personal experience the paper by David Goldberg cited in the post isn't that difficult after all. Plenty of interesting materials can also be found in the Oppenheim & Shafer textbook about digital signal processing.
I noticed the very same thing on ham radio operators using VHF handy-talkies. Claims that RF is dangerous to brain cells shouldn't be underestimated...
Science incubators and technology districts are usually the buzzwords evocated by politicians and real-estate investors. Hewlett and Packard years ago demonstrated that, to start a succesful company, everything you need are a bright idea and a garage. I still have to meet a politicians with 1/1000 of the genius of these guys.
There is plenty of electronics, mechanics, ingenuity, they are fun to build and can entertain children and adults. Furthermore there is no need to apply for a license, or raise an antenna on your roof.
Should the device explode, given the amount of energy stored inside the battery and the kind of chemicals employed in the facility, it could level out the surroundings. Furthermore keeping it underground should make easier to cool the device while charging.
Whenever I read a piece of news like this, I remeber what happened at a scientific congress many years ago.
A well known seismologist (I will omit his name...) published a paper claiming that he found a way to predict earthquakes. Some time later at a conference a young and brilliant mathematician showed, using the very same equations and methods described by the seismologist, that not only it happened that every time the seismologist did a prediction an earthquake happened, but that the reverse was true, i.e. after an earthquake the seismologist would announce an earthquake prediction. A very inconvenient problem....the conference room was filled with laughs.
The mathematician then continued by demonstrating a well-posed method for earthquake prediction that was properly honouring the cause-effect relationship, but the predictor was pretty useless, since it could forecast only a small fraction of all earthquakes happening in the area under study (I think about 15% or so).
I believe that this anecdote suggests that whenever the newspaper (or Slashdot) talks about exotic methods for earthquake prediction, one can safely jump to the following piece of news. Making earthquakes forecasts is a very thought topic, and it is very unlikely toads will ever be of some help...
So are they going to charge the same price for electronic and printed editions ?!? Maybe they will find some customers abroad, where the paper edition costs more, but I doubt they will get many customers in UK.
Well, this book has been written by the author typing on a Nokia phone while daily commuting. So why couldnt't somebody develop code on a cellphone ?!?
Whenever I have to wait in a public place, I often audit the bluetooth name space with my cellphone. It is quite interesting to look at the nicknames that sometimes people assign to their cellphones, especially if you can identify the owner. One of the most appropriate nicks I found was "stinky"...
Slashdot Mirror
Congratulations! You just composed a malamanteau
and avoid oil spills on the moon. We just jammed up gulf of Mexico, avoid covering with tar palus Putredinis
Filing a petition could possibly give more relevance to the case for malamanteau to exist in wikipedia...
It seems that the parties involved (Nokia, HTC, Apple, Blackberry, etc.) are more busy fighting for the money rather than taking care of developing OS and applications. No reasons for me to waste money for replacing my old cellphone and my trusted Filofax with a smartphone.
who found it took care of collecting it. After all, it does not run neither linux nor flash...
An underground nuke explosion could severely change the pattern of fractures in the surrounding oil fields. This could cause either an amazing boost of production, or the end of production for most of them. Unfortunately there is no way to predict which outcome is the more likely.
Furthermore, if 1 ton of TNT caused this, can you imagine the effect of a nuke ?!?
are you aware that, should the experiment fail, the Earth cannot be rebooted ?
Another good reason to keep your Sony is that power consumption for a radio receiver is usually quite small. I just measured the absorption of my radio receiver: it absorbs a mere 0.5 W while keeping the volume high enough to fill the kitchen with music. The internet receiver described in the article if I am right absorbs 2 W while running, 1 in standby. To this you have to add the power needed for powering up your network router, so you probably have to burn about 10 W for listening to the radio. Can we label internet radio as a green technology ?!?
that when you write code, you must not use GOTOs
"My favourite programming language is a soldering iron".
From the wireline.
People interested into floating point math will find some very interesting materials and horror stories in the documents collected at the home page of professor William Kahan, the man behind IEEE754 standard.
According to my personal experience the paper by David Goldberg cited in the post isn't that difficult after all. Plenty of interesting materials can also be found in the Oppenheim & Shafer textbook about digital signal processing.
I noticed the very same thing on ham radio operators using VHF handy-talkies. Claims that RF is dangerous to brain cells shouldn't be underestimated...
Science incubators and technology districts are usually the buzzwords evocated by politicians and real-estate investors. Hewlett and Packard years ago demonstrated that, to start a succesful company, everything you need are a bright idea and a garage. I still have to meet a politicians with 1/1000 of the genius of these guys.
There is plenty of electronics, mechanics, ingenuity, they are fun to build and can entertain children and adults. Furthermore there is no need to apply for a license, or raise an antenna on your roof.
I am the cardholder of an ISS frequent-flyer card.
They will fly it above the polar circle latitude...problem solved!
Should the device explode, given the amount of energy stored inside the battery and the kind of chemicals employed in the facility, it could level out the surroundings. Furthermore keeping it underground should make easier to cool the device while charging.
...Natalie Portman, but instead there was mr. goatse.cx, yuck!
Whenever I read a piece of news like this, I remeber what happened at a scientific congress many years ago.
A well known seismologist (I will omit his name...) published a paper claiming that he found a way to predict earthquakes. Some time later at a conference a young and brilliant mathematician showed, using the very same equations and methods described by the seismologist, that not only it happened that every time the seismologist did a prediction an earthquake happened, but that the reverse was true, i.e. after an earthquake the seismologist would announce an earthquake prediction. A very inconvenient problem....the conference room was filled with laughs.
The mathematician then continued by demonstrating a well-posed method for earthquake prediction that was properly honouring the cause-effect relationship, but the predictor was pretty useless, since it could forecast only a small fraction of all earthquakes happening in the area under study (I think about 15% or so).
I believe that this anecdote suggests that whenever the newspaper (or Slashdot) talks about exotic methods for earthquake prediction, one can safely jump to the following piece of news. Making earthquakes forecasts is a very thought topic, and it is very unlikely toads will ever be of some help...
So are they going to charge the same price for electronic and printed editions ?!? Maybe they will find some customers abroad, where the paper edition costs more, but I doubt they will get many customers in UK.
Leave your cellphone where network signal is best, and use this device for talking from remote into the handset.
But beware of hefty fines...
Well, this book has been written by the author typing on a Nokia phone while daily commuting. So why couldnt't somebody develop code on a cellphone ?!?
Whenever I have to wait in a public place, I often audit the bluetooth name space with my cellphone. It is quite interesting to look at the nicknames that sometimes people assign to their cellphones, especially if you can identify the owner. One of the most appropriate nicks I found was "stinky"...