Recent content by michinobu

But, you know, someone will build one day build a mech for some use. As long as the stories continue to inspire scientists and engineers, someone will find a way. Like, how Jules Verne inspired the moon landing or even a space cannon which shot satellites into space (also from the same book)...

They looked more like utility robots to me. As a military weapon, they would be pretty useless. I'd be more comfortable fighting on foot. But, it would be cool if someone built one of those, with full mobility and everything, though I doubt you could do it on the cheap. In any case, I wish...

I was using at Google Earth, and used it to look at some directions when I noticed that program recommended that I take a right and drive down this road, then take a u-turn and drive past from where I turned originally, when I could've just simply taken a left instead. Does anyone know how...

Why would a library have a trojan built into it? It seems that it'd likely be related to the work everyone else at your company is working on. Cygwin and MinGW do take two different approaches. I recall from a time when I had an assignment which used POSIX threads, that it didn't seem that I...

Granted, it's likely to be a marketing gimmeck from Microsoft, I still feel that MS Word is better than Sun's Open Office. Maybe the features that I like having with MS Word 2007 aren't necessary for most people, but being able to put equations into a document faster is a little nice to have...

No, it's not an issue of software. It's more of an issue of mathematics. Again, as I said earlier, I haven't actually taken a course on AI or know a great deal about it. But, I from what I gather from computational theory, it seems that if its mathematically impossible for a computer to do...

It'd be nice if they could get MS Word to know the entire English language's grammar. However, it's not possible, as Noam Chomsky's work has shown. Yet, somehow people can understand the English grammar. Some how, we're able to do specific tasks, which are computationally unsolvable. If...

Dude, get the tablet pc's. It's mad convenient to be able to flip the screen over and write notes in it. It's really the best option if you plan to take notes in class, using your laptop. Trying to use the keyboard, entirely, is a pain in the *** when you have to draw something out. This is...

Yeah, XP is pretty good. It was the fastest desktop OS in its time before Vista, I think. Other OS's can outperform XP in some way, but XP generally allowed for faster desktop graphics than some of the other OS's.

Yeah, I believe that every bit represents a sector (usually a byte) in physical memory.

Of course, that depends on what you mean by "regular". I've found Open Office and even Star Office (Sun's pay version of their free Open Office) to be irritating when trying to write equations. But, that might not fit with everyone's idea of how a "regular" user might use a word processor...

I guess it might matter on the classes that are more programming-intensive than some of the more math-intensive courses, since you're an applied math major. I don't know from personal experience, but I have talked to grad students who have had to take some undergrad courses in things like...

It depends on what you mean by hacking, however. When people think hacking, they think about what's on TV. Like, they think that hackers are some sort of geniuses who can crack passwords and break into bank accounts. Cryptography, which would involve cybersecurity and cyber-espionage (as well...

If you mean hacking in the media sense, then no. All you need to know is the basics of networking like TCP/IP and etc. It's not really a computer science subject so much as it is IT and Networking. Cryptography, however, is really mathematical. Yet, if you get the basics behind, you can...

But, can I turn my computer off and still have my data on storage using light instead of magnetic disks or SSD?