I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo"campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.
Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?
I've tried to run the game under wine 1.3.21. It installs perfectly ( as does Steam ) but crashes when you click "PLAY".
This might not be entirely Wine related though as a lot of other people ( see the Gearbox forums ) have been getting crashes upon start-up that look almost exactly like the one I'm getting under wine and furthermore the demo is *extremely* buggy.
Look up GPS on Wikipedia ( specifically this ) before spouting ignorant bullshit. Besides positioning, GR also has applications in celestial and orbital mechanics and hence spacecraft maneuvering. In fact, just look up GR, the subject of your diatribe, on Wikipedia, before making a fool of yourself.
Hmmm.... I wonder what would have happened if this guy would have lived circa 1853 right before Bernhard Riemann invented calculus on smooth manifolds, also known as Riemannian Geometry. Maybe Riemann would have been discouraged and scrapped his work. Too bad, since that work, which had no useful applications at the time, would turn out to be the core mathematics Einstein needed to complete General Relativity some 61 years later.
Math is the language that describes the universe. Stop pursuing new heights in math an you will never reach new heights in reality.
Ok, then tell me why before blurting out an unaccredited statement from the blue.
Often a thesis statement precedes the evidence. It's very standard English construction.
It's also standard argumentation practice for your thesis statement to support your evidence, which it did not.
Bacteria aren't people.
Neither are pluripotent stem cells or blastocysts.
I think you're deliberately missing the point. Human blastocysts are human, the DNA settles this.
And I think you're deliberately misconstruing the point. Human blastocysts are a small collection of Human cells -- nothing more. They are not conscious and they do not suffer. There is absolutely no evidence to the contrary regarding
this point. And about the DNA, we share 94% of it with chimps and some fraction will all life on earth. What is "Human" is a continuous gradient whether you look at it genetically or evolutionarily. The 4% that is unique to us gives us our sapience.
Bacteria are quite clearly not human.
They are distant genetic cousins, and they are cells, so why is their destruction any less worse than the destruction of tiny quantities of nascent Human cells?
Whether the blastocysts are alive is the question at hand.
They are alive by the definition provided to us by biology. The fallacy you are perpetrating is using life to conflate a self-sustaining chemical system and the ability to experience.
Sperm can't grow into a human.
If they're coupled with an ovum they can. Ever heard of sperm banks?
You were talking about the destruction of un-coupled sperm. Again, they can't grow into a human.
And neither can blastocysts unless implanted into a working uterus. Your argument is vacuous. Whether something can grow into a human is beside the point. You are talking about potential, which the DNA of any cell in one's body can provide, but what you ignore is that potential has to be coupled with a conscious choice.
then it's a human being, at one stage of development.
And you think my arguments are weak. Go look up "non sequitur" again. This statement has no logical connection to your previous one.
This is the very crux of the matter for those who are concerned. Of course it has a logical connection - some people believe that it is a living human deserving of full protections. You can't wish that away or pretend to be too obtuse to recognize it.
"If the blastocyst is 'alive'" --> "then it's a human being, at one stage of development." The implication here is fallacious. "Alive" here is nebulous and undefined. Your logic fails because you are once again equivocating your use of the term "life" which in this context could mean "ability to experience", which we already know is wrong, "ability to develop into a human" which we know is wrong because it is implicated on conscious choice, or some other unknown definition which brings us back full circle to "what is life?."
You can't wish away a non-statement or pretend to to be too obtuse to recognize it.
Defining 'life' is tricky.
And it's also irrelevant to this conversation, unless you're talking about "Human Life."
Of course we are, that's the subject of the whole debate.
Should we treat the suffering of an orangutan or dolphin any different than the suffering of the non-sentient brain impaired of our species, or even the non-brain-impaired, just because the latter looks like us?
Of course, this is a fundamental premise of our society and system of justice, no matter what your take on embryo research is.
Just because something is a "fundamental premise" doesn't mean it's right or isn't open to debate.
Even if your conclusion is right, your arguments are weak.
Ok, then tell me why before blurting out an unaccredited statement from the blue. You're reasoning in the above is equivalent to saying "You're wrong!." Let me introduce you to my friend -- his name is called Non Sequitur.
Bacteria aren't people.
Neither are pluripotent stem cells or blastocysts.
Sperm can't grow into a human.
If they're coupled with an ovum they can. Ever heard of sperm banks?
If the blastocyst is 'alive',
It is, and so are the bacteria in my shit.
then it's a human being, at one stage of development.
And you think my arguments are weak. Go look up "non sequitur" again. This statement has no logical connection to your previous one.
Defining 'life' is tricky.
And it's also irrelevant to this conversation, unless you're talking about "Human Life." And if you want to elevate Human life above all other "animal" life just because we're the only surviving sapient species on the planet, please provide a reason why the emergence of any new Human in our grand ecosystem is any "better" than the emergence of any other form of life which it encompasses. Should we treat the suffering of an orangutan or dolphin any different than the suffering of the non-sentient brain impaired of our species, or even the non-brain-impaired, just because the latter looks like us? For me, life is anything that can suffer. Sentio igitur sum is more primal. Positing that Humans are a higher form of life, other than the fact that we're sapient, is just cruel anthropocentrism and has led to the full scale destruction of the ecosystems that made us and sustains us.
"Destroying embryos?" First of all these aren't "embryos" -- that is a weasel word often used by fundies and Republicans to conflate an undifferentiated blastocyst with a viable fetus as probably both parties believe that the blastocyst, ney, the zygote, has a "soul." "Embryo" implies more advanced development which is what a blastocyst becomes when its development differentiates it as a human being. A blastocyst is a sphere of about 100 cells filled with fluid, the blastocoele, which contains a clump of pluripotent stem cells attached to its inner wall called the ebryoblast. This is what they're talking about when they say "embryo" : a blob of stem cells. And when they talk about "destroying" the "embryo" what really happens is that the blastocyst is punctured ( Oh no! It's destroyed! ) and the embryoblast stem cells are extracted and allowed to multiply a petri dish. These cells ARE NOT VIABLE -- that is babies won't sprout up like fucking mushrooms from the petri dish. And the blastocysts, they aren't viable unless implanted into a working uterus. Furthermore, what's going to happen to the "embryos" ( blastocysts ) that aren't needed? Can you say medical waste and a furnace? If "destroying embryos" is the equivalent of killing a person, then you commit mass murder every time you take a shit because there are more bacterial cells in your intestines than in your body. Going further with that thought, don't you also commit mass murder when you ejaculate? You know those sperm could have been babies! For fucks sake I'm damn sick of this bullshit.
People using their imagination to go beyond the limits of current technology? Don't bet on it.
But seriously, anything with the firepower of the Death Star would probably be using high intensity anti-neutronium particle beams or something to that effect.
Reminds me of a Star Trek TNG episode where the Enterprise-D was threatened by a ship armed only with high power lasers -- the crew thought it was quaint of course.
If that many people can be crammed into this capsule then I think some design "compromises" had to be made in order to save space.
One example that comes to mind is the space toilet -- it would really suck if you had to shit or urinate in your space suit on the way to the/a station.
Personally, I'm hoping something like the Kliper design takes off. Horizontal lifting body designs lend themselves to more space plus the added advantage of not having to take as many Gs on atmospheric re-entry.
Anyway, here's a somewhat tacky video detailing a hypothetical (CST)-100 mission.
An inner and outer event horizon? last I checked the event horizon was the point at which nothing not even light escapes. By that definition theres only one event horizon. If something goes in and is able to come out, it obviously hasn't entered the event horizon. I assume what you are talking about is the gravitational swing effect by which an object enters the gravitational field long enough to gain speed before it is slingshots away before being sucked in.
Until it is build into the kernel, I'll pass, thanks.
It's your loss. I have 8 gigs of DDR3-1600MHz and preload is running right now, keeping my most used loadable libraries and applications in a large portion of that 8 gigs and with a very noticeable effect on program startup time.
There are many drivers that are not built into the kernel. Perhaps you would like to "pass" on those as well.
One of the things I like the most about Windows 7 is that unlike XP my RAM actually is being used for something useful, instead of sitting empty most of the time. I have about 500Mb of my 8Gb free, because thanks to Superfetch Windows knows which programs I use and when and has them waiting in RAM for me.
Seems these people haven't heard of the Assassin 3D which was released almost a decade and a half ago. It was designed with similar goals -- ie. a trackball for aiming -- but was coupled with a real joystick for movement. This setup proved to be one of the great innovations for mouser haters. Indeed, I've had much fun fragging mouse+keyboard users since I bought my first Panther XL back in '98 -- the philosophical successor to the Assassin 3D. Nowadays I use a hacked/modified PXL where the mechanical 2-axis ( rotary ) sensor for the trackball has been replaced by the guts of a high end optical gaming mouse and the joystick electronics/sensor have either been modified to translate the joystick motion into eg. WASD key presses that are sent down a USB cable or in my case they've been replaced by a Panther DX USB joystick. ( The Panther DX is essentially the joystick component of the Panther XL )
As I rode my motorcycle past the Oak Ridge exit on the interstate on my way to North Carolina, I wondered why computing centers are located where coal is used for power generation, whereas Google places they're computing centers where cheap, renewable energy is available. Probably gov. pork (i.e. I want this in my district).
Heh, yeah, especially since it's estimated that the power consumption of an exaflop machine would, at a minimum, be 20 megawatts, at least with the projected advancement of current technology.
The DOE as well as Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories already have programs in place to develop an "exascale" system by 2018. ( the date at which Moore's law predicts the possibility of such systems )
The top companies competing for the government funds are, not surprisingly, IBM and Cray.
This being/. I'm surprised no one got the "Real Genius" reference :
"Jordan: What happened? How come you're up so late?
Mitch: Well, I just got back from helping Chris and there was a woman in my room.
Jordan: Pardon?
Mitch: A woman. She was an adult.
Jordan: Oh.
Mitch: She wanted...She wanted to...Oh god, how can I say this as not to offend you?
Jordan: Jump you?
Mitch: Yeah. "
Another tidbit is also likely explains why I get moderated to hell is that many mental illnesses also show up on MRIs. Which suggests diseases such as sociopaths and psychopaths, among many others, are not actually diseases.
Yes, that *is* probably why you get moderated to hell, because you're *plainly wrong*. Sorry, but the idea of mind-body separation, originally championed by René Descartes in the first half of the *17th century*, was proven to be bullshit, along with most of Freudian psychoanalysis, a long time ago. And good riddance since these bodies of ideas have plagued the understanding and treatment of mental illness ever since.
Your *brain is an organ* and as such is subject to affliction by many and various disorders and *diseases* that interfere with its normal functioning.
And if you're wondering, yes I have a mental illness ( OCD ) and I know many others that do as well ( and have known, as some have taken their own lives ) as my family is heavily involved in NAMI. You're comment, which comes only a day after the Nami Metropolitan HoustonWalk, is a testament to how far we still have to go as a society in ridding ourselves of destructive ignorance such as you possess. Welcome to the 21st century.
I've been looking for something like this for Linux for ages. Unfortunately I don't know much about kernel level programming but I'd certainly donate to your project and I bet *many* others would as well. I have my $50 waiting -- time for you to set up the necessary PayPal account.:)
NASA has been working on "sub-vocal" speech recognition wherein sensors pick up nerve impulses to various parts of the mouth and face but in this case all it requires is one to just *think* about speaking -- *no mouth movement.*
Could someone give an example of a problem where RPN uses fewer strokes than an algebraic order calculator (including what strokes are needed on the RPN)?
One big example is continued fractions. For example : 2 INV 2 + INV 2 + INV 2 + INV 2 +...... approximates the square root of 2.
The algebraic method would involve this unweidly and ugly expression : 1 + 1/(2+1/(2+1/(2+1/(2+1/(......)))))
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The N900 and N9 are full blown Unix/Linux machines with all the bells and whistles that come with a non-neutered version of the GNU/Linux environment.
That being said, they support many Unix/Linux security mechanisms, but if you want proof, how about full disk encryption for starters?
jdb2
I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Perhaps the hacker in question was trying to further the FSF's efforts with regard to bringing attention to the super-draconian TOS of the 3DS, but in the wrong way of course. Since this is not "Anonymous" it makes me think that the answer to the former hypothesis is "no" and this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.
Oh, BTW, have you bought and sent your bricks yet?
jdb2
Seems they don't have any data on the Nokia N900. That's OK; We can get it off of Nokia's web page :
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"The highest SAR value under the ICNIRP guidelines for use of the device at the ear is 0.80 W/kg."
Not bad at all, especially compared to the HTC Nexus One or the Motorola Droid Pro at 1.39 W/kg
jdb2
I've tried to run the game under wine 1.3.21. It installs perfectly ( as does Steam ) but crashes when you click "PLAY".
This might not be entirely Wine related though as a lot of other people ( see the Gearbox forums ) have been getting crashes upon start-up that look almost exactly like the one I'm getting under wine and furthermore the demo is *extremely* buggy.
See the wine AppDB page for it :
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=23644
jdb2
This is *exactly* why I have my Gmail account linked to Thunderbird via IMAP and I perform regular backups.
jdb2
Look up GPS on Wikipedia ( specifically this ) before spouting ignorant bullshit. Besides positioning, GR also has applications in celestial and orbital mechanics and hence spacecraft maneuvering. In fact, just look up GR, the subject of your diatribe, on Wikipedia, before making a fool of yourself.
jdb2
Hmmm.... I wonder what would have happened if this guy would have lived circa 1853 right before Bernhard Riemann invented calculus on smooth manifolds, also known as Riemannian Geometry. Maybe Riemann would have been discouraged and scrapped his work. Too bad, since that work, which had no useful applications at the time, would turn out to be the core mathematics Einstein needed to complete General Relativity some 61 years later.
Math is the language that describes the universe. Stop pursuing new heights in math an you will never reach new heights in reality.
jdb2
Ok, then tell me why before blurting out an unaccredited statement from the blue.
Often a thesis statement precedes the evidence. It's very standard English construction.
It's also standard argumentation practice for your thesis statement to support your evidence, which it did not.
Neither are pluripotent stem cells or blastocysts.
I think you're deliberately missing the point. Human blastocysts are human, the DNA settles this.
And I think you're deliberately misconstruing the point. Human blastocysts are a small collection of Human cells -- nothing more. They are not conscious and they do not suffer. There is absolutely no evidence to the contrary regarding this point. And about the DNA, we share 94% of it with chimps and some fraction will all life on earth. What is "Human" is a continuous gradient whether you look at it genetically or evolutionarily. The 4% that is unique to us gives us our sapience.
Bacteria are quite clearly not human.
They are distant genetic cousins, and they are cells, so why is their destruction any less worse than the destruction of tiny quantities of nascent Human cells?
Whether the blastocysts are alive is the question at hand.
They are alive by the definition provided to us by biology. The fallacy you are perpetrating is using life to conflate a self-sustaining chemical system and the ability to experience.
If they're coupled with an ovum they can. Ever heard of sperm banks?
You were talking about the destruction of un-coupled sperm. Again, they can't grow into a human.
And neither can blastocysts unless implanted into a working uterus. Your argument is vacuous. Whether something can grow into a human is beside the point. You are talking about potential, which the DNA of any cell in one's body can provide, but what you ignore is that potential has to be coupled with a conscious choice.
then it's a human being, at one stage of development.
And you think my arguments are weak. Go look up "non sequitur" again. This statement has no logical connection to your previous one.
This is the very crux of the matter for those who are concerned. Of course it has a logical connection - some people believe that it is a living human deserving of full protections. You can't wish that away or pretend to be too obtuse to recognize it.
"If the blastocyst is 'alive'" --> "then it's a human being, at one stage of development." The implication here is fallacious. "Alive" here is nebulous and undefined. Your logic fails because you are once again equivocating your use of the term "life" which in this context could mean "ability to experience", which we already know is wrong, "ability to develop into a human" which we know is wrong because it is implicated on conscious choice, or some other unknown definition which brings us back full circle to "what is life?." You can't wish away a non-statement or pretend to to be too obtuse to recognize it.
And it's also irrelevant to this conversation, unless you're talking about "Human Life."
Of course we are, that's the subject of the whole debate.
Should we treat the suffering of an orangutan or dolphin any different than the suffering of the non-sentient brain impaired of our species, or even the non-brain-impaired, just because the latter looks like us?
Of course, this is a fundamental premise of our society and system of justice, no matter what your take on embryo research is.
Just because something is a "fundamental premise" doesn't mean it's right or isn't open to debate.
Even if your conclusion is right, your arguments are weak.
Ok, then tell me why before blurting out an unaccredited statement from the blue. You're reasoning in the above is equivalent to saying "You're wrong!." Let me introduce you to my friend -- his name is called Non Sequitur.
Bacteria aren't people.
Neither are pluripotent stem cells or blastocysts.
Sperm can't grow into a human.
If they're coupled with an ovum they can. Ever heard of sperm banks?
If the blastocyst is 'alive',
It is, and so are the bacteria in my shit.
then it's a human being, at one stage of development.
And you think my arguments are weak. Go look up "non sequitur" again. This statement has no logical connection to your previous one.
Defining 'life' is tricky.
And it's also irrelevant to this conversation, unless you're talking about "Human Life." And if you want to elevate Human life above all other "animal" life just because we're the only surviving sapient species on the planet, please provide a reason why the emergence of any new Human in our grand ecosystem is any "better" than the emergence of any other form of life which it encompasses. Should we treat the suffering of an orangutan or dolphin any different than the suffering of the non-sentient brain impaired of our species, or even the non-brain-impaired, just because the latter looks like us? For me, life is anything that can suffer. Sentio igitur sum is more primal. Positing that Humans are a higher form of life, other than the fact that we're sapient, is just cruel anthropocentrism and has led to the full scale destruction of the ecosystems that made us and sustains us.
- just stop.
I'd advise you yo do the same.
jdb2
"Destroying embryos?" First of all these aren't "embryos" -- that is a weasel word often used by fundies and Republicans to conflate an undifferentiated blastocyst with a viable fetus as probably both parties believe that the blastocyst, ney, the zygote, has a "soul." "Embryo" implies more advanced development which is what a blastocyst becomes when its development differentiates it as a human being . A blastocyst is a sphere of about 100 cells filled with fluid, the blastocoele, which contains a clump of pluripotent stem cells attached to its inner wall called the ebryoblast. This is what they're talking about when they say "embryo" : a blob of stem cells. And when they talk about "destroying" the "embryo" what really happens is that the blastocyst is punctured ( Oh no! It's destroyed! ) and the embryoblast stem cells are extracted and allowed to multiply a petri dish. These cells ARE NOT VIABLE -- that is babies won't sprout up like fucking mushrooms from the petri dish. And the blastocysts, they aren't viable unless implanted into a working uterus. Furthermore, what's going to happen to the "embryos" ( blastocysts ) that aren't needed? Can you say medical waste and a furnace? If "destroying embryos" is the equivalent of killing a person, then you commit mass murder every time you take a shit because there are more bacterial cells in your intestines than in your body. Going further with that thought, don't you also commit mass murder when you ejaculate? You know those sperm could have been babies! For fucks sake I'm damn sick of this bullshit.
jdb2
"Death Star style superlasers? Don't bet on it."
People using their imagination to go beyond the limits of current technology? Don't bet on it.
But seriously, anything with the firepower of the Death Star would probably be using high intensity anti-neutronium particle beams or something to that effect.
Reminds me of a Star Trek TNG episode where the Enterprise-D was threatened by a ship armed only with high power lasers -- the crew thought it was quaint of course.
jdb2
If that many people can be crammed into this capsule then I think some design "compromises" had to be made in order to save space.
One example that comes to mind is the space toilet -- it would really suck if you had to shit or urinate in your space suit on the way to the/a station.
Personally, I'm hoping something like the Kliper design takes off. Horizontal lifting body designs lend themselves to more space plus the added advantage of not having to take as many Gs on atmospheric re-entry.
Anyway, here's a somewhat tacky video detailing a hypothetical (CST)-100 mission.
jdb2
An inner and outer event horizon? last I checked the event horizon was the point at which nothing not even light escapes. By that definition theres only one event horizon. If something goes in and is able to come out, it obviously hasn't entered the event horizon. I assume what you are talking about is the gravitational swing effect by which an object enters the gravitational field long enough to gain speed before it is slingshots away before being sucked in.
I think he's talking about the ergosphere.
jdb2
Until it is build into the kernel, I'll pass, thanks.
It's your loss. I have 8 gigs of DDR3-1600MHz and preload is running right now, keeping my most used loadable libraries and applications in a large portion of that 8 gigs and with a very noticeable effect on program startup time.
There are many drivers that are not built into the kernel. Perhaps you would like to "pass" on those as well.
jdb2
One of the things I like the most about Windows 7 is that unlike XP my RAM actually is being used for something useful, instead of sitting empty most of the time. I have about 500Mb of my 8Gb free, because thanks to Superfetch Windows knows which programs I use and when and has them waiting in RAM for me.
Linux has this as well. It's called Preload.
jdb2
Seems these people haven't heard of the Assassin 3D which was released almost a decade and a half ago. It was designed with similar goals -- ie. a trackball for aiming -- but was coupled with a real joystick for movement. This setup proved to be one of the great innovations for mouser haters. Indeed, I've had much fun fragging mouse+keyboard users since I bought my first Panther XL back in '98 -- the philosophical successor to the Assassin 3D. Nowadays I use a hacked/modified PXL where the mechanical 2-axis ( rotary ) sensor for the trackball has been replaced by the guts of a high end optical gaming mouse and the joystick electronics/sensor have either been modified to translate the joystick motion into eg. WASD key presses that are sent down a USB cable or in my case they've been replaced by a Panther DX USB joystick. ( The Panther DX is essentially the joystick component of the Panther XL )
jdb2
As I rode my motorcycle past the Oak Ridge exit on the interstate on my way to North Carolina, I wondered why computing centers are located where coal is used for power generation, whereas Google places they're computing centers where cheap, renewable energy is available. Probably gov. pork (i.e. I want this in my district).
Heh, yeah, especially since it's estimated that the power consumption of an exaflop machine would, at a minimum, be 20 megawatts, at least with the projected advancement of current technology.
jdb2
The DOE as well as Oak Ridge, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories already have programs in place to develop an "exascale" system by 2018. ( the date at which Moore's law predicts the possibility of such systems )
/. stories here and here.
The top companies competing for the government funds are, not surprisingly, IBM and Cray.
See these two older
jdb2
This being /. I'm surprised no one got the "Real Genius" reference :
"Jordan: What happened? How come you're up so late?
Mitch: Well, I just got back from helping Chris and there was a woman in my room.
Jordan: Pardon?
Mitch: A woman. She was an adult.
Jordan: Oh.
Mitch: She wanted...She wanted to...Oh god, how can I say this as not to offend you?
Jordan: Jump you?
Mitch: Yeah. "
jdb2
Wouldn't the package in question be considered "carry on?" If you had to "check it" at the gate wouldn't that be a personal problem?
jdb2
Another tidbit is also likely explains why I get moderated to hell is that many mental illnesses also show up on MRIs. Which suggests diseases such as sociopaths and psychopaths, among many others, are not actually diseases.
Yes, that *is* probably why you get moderated to hell, because you're *plainly wrong*. Sorry, but the idea of mind-body separation, originally championed by René Descartes in the first half of the *17th century*, was proven to be bullshit, along with most of Freudian psychoanalysis, a long time ago. And good riddance since these bodies of ideas have plagued the understanding and treatment of mental illness ever since.
Your *brain is an organ* and as such is subject to affliction by many and various disorders and *diseases* that interfere with its normal functioning.
And if you're wondering, yes I have a mental illness ( OCD ) and I know many others that do as well ( and have known, as some have taken their own lives ) as my family is heavily involved in NAMI. You're comment, which comes only a day after the Nami Metropolitan Houston Walk, is a testament to how far we still have to go as a society in ridding ourselves of destructive ignorance such as you possess. Welcome to the 21st century.
jdb2
Here Here!
Change that to "hear hear." Damn fingers.
jdb2
Here Here!
:)
I've been looking for something like this for Linux for ages. Unfortunately I don't know much about kernel level programming but I'd certainly donate to your project and I bet *many* others would as well. I have my $50 waiting -- time for you to set up the necessary PayPal account.
Cheers,
jdb2
NASA has been working on "sub-vocal" speech recognition wherein sensors pick up nerve impulses to various parts of the mouth and face but in this case all it requires is one to just *think* about speaking -- *no mouth movement.*
/. stories on the matter :
Here are some previous
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/18/0132222
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/10/1417250&tid=215&tid=14
jdb2
Could someone give an example of a problem where RPN uses fewer strokes than an algebraic order calculator (including what strokes are needed on the RPN)?
One big example is continued fractions. For example : 2 INV 2 + INV 2 + INV 2 + INV 2 +...... approximates the square root of 2.
The algebraic method would involve this unweidly and ugly expression : 1 + 1/(2+1/(2+1/(2+1/(2+1/(......)))))
jdb2