Book Reviews
![[Day Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/permaLink.gif){kind=small}
Friday, January 31, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} -- Comment()
Parents tend to doubt girls' math, science ability: "Parents tend to believe that science is less compelling and more challenging for daughters than for sons, and even appear to use different language when discussing science with girls than with boys, according to new research. [...] These differences existed despite the fact that the girls and boys included in the study said they were equally interested in science and confident about their abilities, and both genders earned the same grades in the subject." [Reuters Health eLine]
|
|
Endless requirements for disk space -- Comment()
Ars Technica writes about the new hard drives: "250 GB ought to be enough for anybody." There is always a need for more disk space. Consider, for example, recording all the sounds you hear in your life in digital format. A minute of mp3 audio requires about 1 MB of disk space. One day requires about 1.5 GB, and one year takes 550 GB. Finally, 70 years of audio requires 38 500 GB, or 38.5 TB of disk space. Thus there is a factor of 150 still missing in hard disk capacity. And if you want to record high-quality video, the factor is about 1000. If you estimate that the disk capacity will double each year (I doubt this), increasing the disk space by a factor of 1000 will take 10 years. And then you might find you have new needs -- browsing through the recordings of your parents, friends, ...
|
|
-- Comment()
Pleasing Words: "Have you ever found yourself, rather than trying to write well, trying to please Microsoft Word's spell checker and grammar checker." [DonnaM]
|
