Will this 803.11g card work in an iBook?

SonyStyle.com | Wireless Card PCWA-C300S

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Apparently some older SONY 802.11b cards may work in Macs. I'm sure we'll find out if this 802.11g card works in iBooks.

iMac G5 may not be a good video editing option

MacInTouch Home Page

The new iMac's 7200-RPM serial ATA drive should provide very good disk performance, but demanding audio and video tasks normally need multiple drives, and the iMac G5 offers only FireWire 400 for that application... and it's problematic to use FireWire drives simultaneously with audio/video transfers.

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This will be something to watch.

Apple - iMac G5 - expensive!

Apple - iMac G5

I'm not thrilled. Too expensive when one adds adequate memory, bluetooth, wireless, etc. The standard package should have included 512MB memory, wireless and bluetooth.

How well is that panel going to pivot when half a dozen cables hang off the left of the display back?

Arghh. I have a bad feeling on this one. (Of course I liked the cube which flopped. On the other hand I've liked all of Apple's recent devices until this one.)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Abridged Table of Contents

I came across this via a link to Bayes Theorem (see prior post). The index lists all the topics that are to be covered, it looks like about 80% or so are covered (based on two samples).

Not all the entries are readable by a non-specialist. The Bell's Theorem entry was, to me, incomprehensible.

It reminds me of a massive hypertext encyclopedia of philosophy I came across about 7 years ago. It was a european project. I wonder where it is now (I couldn't find it via Google).

I look forward to reading a history of these projects in about 20-30 years.

Bayes' Theorem - a decent discussion!

Bayes' Theorem

I've taught on Bayes Theorem to graduate students on several occasions. I've never felt I really communicated the underlying subtlety, complexity, and power of that mathematical beastie.

This essay would have helped me.

Inspiration for Palm OS

Inspiration for Palm OS - Business applications

Inspiration is a venerable software package put out by a small company. It started life as a business/productivity application for mind mapping and graphical thinking then found a niche in K12 education.

One of its peculiarities is that the Mac version can import MORE 3.1 files.

Now they have a version for the Palm. I'm not sure what to make of this. This is one application that seems well suited to a 30" LCD, not a 2" LCD.

Inspiration/Palm syncs with Inspiration Windows. Not sure about Inspiraton Mac. There are very few apps that have versions for Mac, Windows AND Palm.

There is a free trial. I'll give a try. You can download the Palm app for EITHER Mac or Windows.

Quantum Teleportation across the Danube -- Hacking God's Computer

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Quantum Teleportation across the Danube Demonstrated

Scientists report today in the journal Nature that they have successfully teleported photons more than 600 meters across the famous waterway.

Rupert Ursin and his colleagues at the Institute for Experimental Physics in Vienna fired a laser through a barium borate crystal to generate two pairs of photons. One pair is entangled, which means that if something disturbs the state of one, the other feels the effects as well--even when they are not physically connected. By separating the entangled pair, the scientists successfully transported information about the state of one photon to the other. Using fiber-optic cable laid under the water in sewer pipes, together with microwaves sent across the air above the water, three distinct states were teleported across the Danube. Over the course of a 28-hour experimental run, the system was correct 97 percent of the time.

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I think this is incredibly freaky. We're hacking God's own computer.

I feel about quantum teleportation and entanglement the way my great aunt felt about electric lights. Utter magic.