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I didn't forget about the Cosmos comparisons... I've just been a li'l disappointed in the new series and it's getting hard to hide. Today, I wanna talk about a few things ( Read more... )

As mentioned in the last review, the two series have gone completely apart from each other. Sagan's original series has Episode 5 as "Blues for a Red Planet". It tells a bunch of stories with red Mars at its center. We hear of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. In Sagan's characteristic way, he takes a pretty ( Read more... )

Jeez! Four episodes already. It's not really fair to compare the two Cosmoses together anymore since they've diverged pretty far from each other. Episode 4 of the original series ("Heaven and Hell") began by covering comets and asteroids, planetary moons, and cosmic disasters. It ended on a very sad note about how humankind is treating our Earth. ( Read more... )

I had an engagement on Sunday, so I missed watching the original Cosmos before the new one aired, but I caught up tonight, and, with the old Cosmos fresh in my head, I finally get to this.

So, the third episode is the first really biographical one. In Tyson's Cosmos, we're open with the credits screen- which is, I think, the first time the series ( Read more... )

The series is starting to take shape as a sort of supplement to the original Cosmos.

Episode 2 of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was the evolution episode about the origins of life and species titled "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue". His introduction to artificial selection involved Heike crabs where those crabs whose carapace looked like that of a ( Read more... )

COSMOS! I've been so excited for this for the past month or so. Tonight, I watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage before the big premiere so that I could do a little side-by-side ( Read more... )

In the past, I've written about making a mathematical calculator in Java using a JavaScript engine. Deep down, I've always wanted to write my own. I thought it would be all mathy, but, in truth, it's a whole bunch of teaching a computer algebra. As such, I have my own evaluator in Java! It's the heart of "Parametron" (links: here or here). Trick is ( Read more... )

I know I don't post nearly as often as I should. Gotta work on that. Anyways, I've potentially got some excellent projects coming up including Nanowrimo later this week (in November). Really wanted to share this with everybody (especially myself in the future):

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When I started mobile development just over a year ago, iOS stuff was simple. There were iPhone and iPad apps and they were made in Xcode. At first, I had no idea where to go with Android and ended up generating a simple twelve-step procedure to get a sample app onto a device. Then, I discovered the ADT for Eclipse and that was that. That's the ( Read more... )