The technical advances of the computer industry in terms of transistor size, memory density and cost are unique to say the least. To expect any other technology to advance as rapidly, expecially battery technology, for any reason is wishfull thinking at best.
When Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965 (http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.h tm/) almost nobody believed it would hold true for more than a few years. The fact that it has held true for some 40 years is simply a miracle.
You raise some good points and I am concerned about a lot of them too. I do have three children to feed. However, I refuse to run around in a panic just because "a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world" are scared. This is not science, it's politics. In fact most everything I read about Global Warming reeks of politics.
Read this essay for a more detailed explaination on why I refuse to scare easily:
The strength of science is that it doesn't depend on what your opinion is, or even what the general concensus is. The system of reasoning we call the scientic method was formalized and entered public use approximately 400 years ago.
Sorry, after living through this last hurricane season in Central Florida I put far less weight in our "speculation and computer modelling" than I used to. Spending most all of our research time on warming trends could be a huge mistake. From what we know about chaotic sytems the planet could be reacting to our increasing greenhouse gases by getting cooler, or could be on the verge of another ice age completely independent of human activity and the greenhouse gases are the only thing holding it back. My point is: if we can't even track a hurricane how are we to trust predictions of global weather responses to never-before seen human influences?
1.8 Metric Tons of mostly water is relatively dirt cheap. It takes 2500 to 6000 gal of water to produce 1 lb of beef. Which weighs 9 to 22 Metric Tons.
Laughlin: "This secrecy increases the opportunity for impropriety and thus makes the knowledge inherently less reliable than comparable knowledge produced in the open."
Me (Code = Knowledge therefore): "Code, like Knowledge, produced in secret is inherently less reliable than comperable code produced in the open."
It is strange how we have laws to protect our right to own a gun, but shooting someone is illegal. I see a big contradiction there!
Not if you can accept that guns have other purposes. And strictly speaking shooting someone is not alway illegal.
If there were no guns in the first place, we wouldn't have to own a gun to protect ourselves from other guns.
Putting asside the question of whether guns should be available there remains the fact that they are. We can't even control the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for God's sake. What makes anybody think we can put the cat back in the bag and get rid of all guns? So wishing for such a world might be fun, but futile too.
I sent in a rebate to ViewSonic last year and got the exact same runaround. They rejected my claim and sent me mail to that effect. I kept all the paperwork so I called and they said it was all a computer mistake and they would be sending me the check.
I took their word for it but now think it must be extrememly common. It's dishonest.
I had to laugh a bit. You may not like the Bush plan BECAUSE you are still a poor student. Once you get a few stock options you may feel differently. I have an ultra liberal brother-in-law who graduated from the Chicago Law School two years ago. His politics has been steadily moving toward the right with each passing year, mainly because of the amount of his money being rerouted to Washington.
Here's some help:
Republican: Someone who gives more to the government than he gets.
Deomcrat: Someone whe gets more from the government than he gives.
Here's something else: A republican is a democrat who's been robbed. A libertarian is a republican who's been lied to.
I was born in Cocoa Beach, my father worked on the Saturn V then. He left and is now reciently back working on the shuttle as a reliability and quality control engineer at the Cape. Listening to his accounts of NASA corporate culture and the decision-making process it is apparent little has changed since Feynman's account of the last shuttle tradegy.
It is my opinion that NASA retards our nation's space exploration needs more than it champions them.
I want to see us go to Mars. Colonizing other planets is necessary for our species long-term survival. But NASA is squandering resources and wasting time.
That family lived just like a typical family would in 1900 and they all were very much relieved to be done with it. Especially the women. There is no doubt in my mind that because of technology we lead much more self directed, clean lives. And because of technology the following statement is more true now that it has even been: If we are sleep deprived and stressed it is because we choose to support ourselves in this manner.
There's nothing that will grab the kids attention faster than a visual enviornment. If they are using Win98 then your best choices have to be VB or Delphi. I use both. They don't need to start with VB. Delphi is a LOT better because it's easier to build tighter code, it runs faster and they don't need to drag those silly OCX and DLL files all over the place. Assembling windows and other visual components into a fun, interesting Win98 application is a snap with Delphi. The Lego MindStorm (while I have one) is more technical IMHO than VB or Delphi because it requires programming AND mechanical engineering skills. Instead, Imagine their excitment when they can bring a disk of a program they wrote over to their friends and show it to them on their computer.
'Traditional capital was stuck in a company's bank account or investments. It could not walk away in disgust. Human capital has free will. It can walk out the door; traditional capital cannot.'
If this is true than I expect trouble ahead. As companies learn this they will take steps to protect their assets...many of them will not take an enlightened approach. I expect to see an errosion of 'free will' in the name of a companies right to protect it's capital. Expect to have to fight hard to keep your intelligence your own, more so than in the past.
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"Don't give out information like your SSN (by law, no one can force you to use your SSN as an identifier!!), DL number, birthdate, phone number, etc. "
Ever try to argue this with the local cable company? I did. They said it is legal. And that there was a state law here in Florida that allowed them to use SSN's in their database anyway. I said Federal Law supersedes state law and that the SSN number is issued and controlled by a federal agency. I got into a major pissing contest with the final result a denial of cable service. I have been without cable TV for 2 years now. Any clarification on this issue would be appreciated.
I worked at TI for 2 years and I can tell you they know which goose laid to golden egg. They don't maintain 50% marketshare by accident just because Intel hasn't had a crack at the market. They invented DSP and they intend to rule the market. They aim to be the biggest semiconductor company in the world and they can get there by maintaining and expanding DSP marketshare. Anybody who challenges them (and that includes Lucent here in Orlando) has got to want it bad. I've often been puzzled by the lack of press TI gets...it's no where near the level of their technical expertise.
The Matrix is much more and the thin plot quickly expands to everything you do in life. It's not just about a Christ figure either. It's about everyting from Sticky web sites, the nightly news, Social Angst, The Clash...but many people don't want to know...the steak tastes too good and those damn gurilla warriors live in a stinking ship with nothing to inherit but a burned out world and soiled clothes.
You probably have preconceived notions of what a Christ figure should be. Any that there can only be one kind. Once you free yourself from the Matrix you might become more tollerant of other possibilities...
Wasn't that picked because it is the resonant frequency of H2O? If so, then it would stand to reason that anything off that frequency would be a very inefficient microwave heater.
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Close. Better said the RISC philosophy was to reduce the number of cycles per instruction by simplifying the instruction set without increasing the instructions needed to execute a program too terribly much. This also ment smaller and cheaper CPU's. It worked pretty well but the cost of silicon real estate dropped so far that former RISC shops have been loading their CPU's with fancy features to the extent that I've heard the G3 has a more complex instruction set than the PII! The RISC/CISC distinction is outdated and misleading. See http://arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.ht ml
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The technical advances of the computer industry in terms of transistor size, memory density and cost are unique to say the least. To expect any other technology to advance as rapidly, expecially battery technology, for any reason is wishfull thinking at best.
h tm/) almost nobody believed it would hold true for more than a few years. The fact that it has held true for some 40 years is simply a miracle.
When Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965 (http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.
You raise some good points and I am concerned about a lot of them too. I do have three children to feed. However, I refuse to run around in a panic just because "a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world" are scared. This is not science, it's politics. In fact most everything I read about Global Warming reeks of politics.
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Read this essay for a more detailed explaination on why I refuse to scare easily:
http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/GW-Aliens-Crichton.ht
The strength of science is that it doesn't depend on what your opinion is, or even what the general concensus is. The system of reasoning we call the scientic method was formalized and entered public use approximately 400 years ago.
Sorry, after living through this last hurricane season in Central Florida I put far less weight in our "speculation and computer modelling" than I used to.
Spending most all of our research time on warming trends could be a huge mistake. From what we know about chaotic sytems the planet could be reacting to our increasing greenhouse gases by getting cooler, or could be on the verge of another ice age completely independent of human activity and the greenhouse gases are the only thing holding it back. My point is: if we can't even track a hurricane how are we to trust predictions of global weather responses to never-before seen human influences?
1.8 Metric Tons of mostly water is relatively
dirt cheap. It takes 2500 to 6000 gal of
water to produce 1 lb of beef. Which weighs
9 to 22 Metric Tons.
Put an axis on those wacko claims!
Laughlin:
"This secrecy increases the opportunity for impropriety and thus makes the knowledge inherently less reliable than comparable knowledge produced in the open."
Me (Code = Knowledge therefore):
"Code, like Knowledge, produced in secret is inherently less reliable than comperable code produced in the open."
Yea, but whether or not I have access to a doctor is just a health issue...my ability to use technology is a life and death kinda problem...
So do the strip mining on the other side of the Moon. That way, nobody on earth would see it.
It is strange how we have laws to protect our right to own a gun, but shooting someone is illegal. I see a big contradiction there!
Not if you can accept that guns have other purposes. And strictly speaking shooting someone is not alway illegal.
If there were no guns in the first place, we wouldn't have to own a gun to protect ourselves from other guns.
Putting asside the question of whether guns should be available there remains the fact that they are. We can't even control the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for God's sake. What makes anybody think we can put the cat back in the bag and get rid of all guns? So wishing for such a world might be fun, but futile too.
I sent in a rebate to ViewSonic last year and got the exact same runaround. They rejected my claim and sent me mail to that effect. I kept all the paperwork so I called and they said it was all a computer mistake and they would be sending me the check.
I took their word for it but now think it must be extrememly common. It's dishonest.
I had to laugh a bit. You may not like the Bush plan BECAUSE you are still a poor student. Once you get a few stock options you may feel differently. I have an ultra liberal brother-in-law who graduated from the Chicago Law School two years ago. His politics has been steadily moving toward the right with each passing year, mainly because of the amount of his money being rerouted to Washington.
Here's some help:
Republican: Someone who gives more to the government than he gets.
Deomcrat: Someone whe gets more from the government than he gives.
Here's something else: A republican is a democrat who's been robbed. A libertarian is a republican who's been lied to.
1. Talk the problem out with somebody. Doesn't have to be a programmer, just somebody who can ask questions a little
2. Play the Piano
3. Play with my children
I was born in Cocoa Beach, my father worked on the Saturn V then. He left and is now reciently back working on the shuttle as a reliability and quality control engineer at the Cape. Listening to his accounts of NASA corporate culture and the decision-making process it is apparent little has changed since Feynman's account of the last shuttle tradegy.
It is my opinion that NASA retards our nation's space exploration needs more than it champions them.
I want to see us go to Mars. Colonizing other planets is necessary for our species long-term survival. But NASA is squandering resources and wasting time.
Do you really think the NSA/FBI/CIA would trade the knowledge that they can break the most sophisticated encryption schemes for a few court cases?
Remember how the British let the germans bomb London in order to keep this kind of knowlege from the enemy?
No...I cannot expect the NSA/FBI/CIA to give such knowledge away just so Janet Reno can put another notch on her belt.
Has anybody seen the PBS series 1900 House ?
That family lived just like a typical family would in 1900 and they all were very much relieved to be done with it. Especially the women. There is no doubt in my mind that because of technology we lead much more self directed, clean lives. And because of technology the following statement is more true now that it has even been: If we are sleep deprived and stressed it is because we choose to support ourselves in this manner.
There's nothing that will grab the kids attention faster than a visual enviornment. If they are using Win98 then your best choices have to be VB or Delphi. I use both. They don't need to start with VB. Delphi is a LOT better because it's easier to build tighter code, it runs faster and they don't need to drag those silly OCX and DLL files all over the place. Assembling windows and other visual components into a fun, interesting Win98 application is a snap with Delphi.
The Lego MindStorm (while I have one) is more technical IMHO than VB or Delphi because it requires programming AND mechanical engineering skills.
Instead, Imagine their excitment when they can bring a disk of a program they wrote over to their friends and show it to them on their computer.
'Traditional capital was stuck in a company's bank account or investments. It could not walk away in disgust. Human capital has free will. It can walk out the door; traditional capital cannot.'
If this is true than I expect trouble ahead.
As companies learn this they will take steps to protect their assets...many of them will not take an enlightened approach. I expect to see an errosion of 'free will' in the name of a companies right to protect it's capital. Expect to have to fight hard to keep your intelligence your own, more so than in the past.
"Don't give out information like your SSN (by law, no one can force you to use your SSN as an identifier!!), DL number, birthdate, phone number, etc. "
Ever try to argue this with the local cable company? I did. They said it is legal. And that there was a state law here in Florida that allowed them to use SSN's in their database anyway.
I said Federal Law supersedes state law and that the SSN number is issued and controlled by a federal agency. I got into a major pissing contest with the final result a denial of cable service. I have been without cable TV for 2 years now. Any clarification on this issue would be appreciated.
I worked at TI for 2 years and I can tell you they know which goose laid to golden egg. They don't maintain 50% marketshare by accident just because Intel hasn't had a crack at the market. They invented DSP and they intend to rule the market.
They aim to be the biggest semiconductor company in the world and they can get there by maintaining and expanding DSP marketshare. Anybody who challenges them (and that includes Lucent here in Orlando) has got to want it bad. I've often been puzzled by the lack of press TI gets...it's no where near the level of their technical expertise.
I've always thought of Tallahassee as more closely related to Alabama and Georgia and not really "Floridian".
The Matrix is much more and the thin plot quickly expands to everything you do in life. It's not just about a Christ figure either. It's about everyting from Sticky web sites, the nightly news, Social Angst, The Clash...but many people don't want to know...the steak tastes too good and those damn gurilla warriors live in a stinking ship with nothing to inherit but a burned out world and soiled clothes.
You probably have preconceived notions of what a Christ figure should be. Any that there can only be one kind. Once you free yourself from the Matrix you might become more tollerant of other possibilities...
Your implies possession as in "Your problem is that you talk before you think."
Use "You're". It's the contraction of "You are" as in "You're looking pretty stupid right now."
Wasn't that picked because it is the resonant frequency of H2O?
If so, then it would stand to reason that anything off that frequency would be a very inefficient microwave heater.
Close. Better said the RISC philosophy was to reduce the number of cycles per instruction by simplifying the instruction set without increasing the instructions needed to execute a program too terribly much. This also ment smaller and cheaper CPU's. It worked pretty well but the cost of silicon real estate dropped so far that former RISC shops have been loading their CPU's with fancy features to the extent that I've heard the G3 has a more complex instruction set than the PII! The RISC/CISC distinction is outdated and misleading. See http://arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.ht ml