It's the rate of change of magnetic flux that does the trick. You get changing flux from a changing electrical current, or from a moving magnet. So maybe if you loaded the magnets into a shotgun, then fired them through your brain, you'd notice an effect.
These are magnetic pulses. No, strapping magnets to your wrist/ankle/belly/tinfoil-hat still won't accomplish anything.
This is very interesting, and maybe that's good enough. But isn't there some evidence of what method they might have used? Wood fragments? Tracks? Tools?
I'm asking this as a completely naive onlooker. I'm sure there is research on this spanning hundreds of years; anyone want to provide a quick summary?
If you foresee going far with this as a hobby, you will want to go 8-10" at some point. It's better to decide now as telescopes are utterly worthless on the used market.
This would seem to present a compelling case for buying a telescope on the used market.
We've all seen those "baby on board" stickers/signs, with the intention being that you should keep your distance or take extra caution.
Wait, I thought you got double points for those!
I'm intrigued. This project seems like a more engaging and worthwhile use of my time than the crowdsourced editing of Slashdot summaries.
Take a quick look at the Wikipedia entry for stenotype to see why using a stenographic keyboard for coding is such a laughable idea.
Stenography relies heavily on a highly-trained stenographer to do the recording, and on a similarly highly-trained individual to turn the record into recognizable English. Trying to use that for writing code, where you don't have the redundancy and patterns of English, is a bit like trying to use Swype to transcribe telephone numbers. Wrong tool for the task, period.
...you obviously haven't been hanging around here for long.
Interesting, and thanks for posting this.
Apologies for the uninteresting followup, posted to remove an accidental down-moderation. I suppose it would be too much to hope that the next version of Slashdot will not let you mis-moderate simply by releasing the mouse when it's one pixel off from the intended target.
Fortunately, we here in your neighboring Free State of North Carolina elected a legislature that was willing to protect us from the predatory pricing of municipal broadband.
Well, we elected them, but the big telephone and cable companies did provide a little financial incentive to help keep them honest, as it were.
Well, in MY opinion, CS students who learned in C or C++ or Pascal or PL/1 are inferior because they use the stack as a crutch, instead of manually keeping track of callback history. If you don't have to write explicit code to keep track of every call, or allocate every local variable, your code will... well, actually, it'll likely be easier to read, easier to maintain, and easier to optimize. But it won't be as good as the code we had to write back in my day.
Yep, it must be terrible to live in a land where Big Government can high-handedly and arbitrarily restrict the Freedoms of large corporations. It's a shame that the serfs living under such repressive regimes don't have skilled and benevolent lobbyists to help them rise up and throw off their shackles.
At least, that's what the corporate news outlets here in the US are leading us to believe.
Yup. Usable once you surmount the learning curve, and ergonomic.
I had wrist problems occasionally when I was using keyboard-only UIs, but all I ever had to do was rearrange keyboard and chair to the right positions. (Okay, WordStar on a TRS-80 Mod I was killing me, until I hacked in foot-pedals to use for Shift and up-arrow, er, Control). "Modern" pretty-much-need-the-mouse IDEs pained me enough that I went to a Fingerworks Touchstream keyboard for a number of years, even though it slowed my typing by almost half.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
