New Yorkers are not typically suckers. My guess:
1. Double the fare and I will charge it to the company and get reimbursed for double tip
2. Double the fare on the company if you know where I can get a date
3. Profit!
I have seen it played many ways. This is more likely a pattern that was just hidden.
What I want to see is if (gps(politician) == gps(lobbyist)){moneyChangesHands(howMuch);}
.
You have obviously not taken anything apart lately. Chip On Plastic (COP) , SOIC (Small Outline IC), Chip On Glass (COG). I took apart an iPod to fix it and was surprised that the entire audio circuit was the size of a flea. The device was not very expensive and had a hard drive, CPU, and video interface small enough to fit in my wallet. The audio portion was smaller than my ear canal and mounted on plastic which is flexible. TFA is a reasonable concern for somebody who doesn't work with technology, but as other comments reflect, it is a simple thing to convert a pocket sized computer to do whatever you want with sound, including some semblance of captioning for the completely deaf. Bluetooth conceals the size of it anyway.
Basically the person is not shopping for something that works. If they understand what a DAC and ADC are then they should have no trouble making something and when they interview again they can show that they solve problems when encountered, which I think is an employable skill outside the government.
Next they will need meta meta moderators to sift through all the phony reports of sun spots.
Actually this could be contracted out to/. -for a fee- as they have experience.
Obviously you have some knowledge of the business. "Isn't that big a trick" is relative to the skill set. I designed with later technology and Gatorade ( Gate arrays ) was just the start. I am quite aware of what goes into the designs as I worked in semiconductor wafer fabrication, stuffing and somebody has to design the equipment and process that instantiates that hardware. I am just speculating on what might be useful in the future. As a programmer also, it is now necessary to think about threads and interlock. The CPU mfg can't design in the software to create independent threads. That has to take place at a higher level. I would like to see a more open hardware environment as I believe it allows the technology to advance more quickly. I would like to see some USB OpenGL, or USB CPUs and some means to have an expandable system if I am required to do threading in the software, I would like to do more threads as it becomes easier to sort out projects. It would be nice to have a fiber optic core CPU with a satellite bus, to resolve dependencies between the threads. I also do bioinformatics and Blue Gene is the machine we use. I have used hardware from the first IBM in BAL ( and COBOL ) with page thrashing and job control language. I like RISC and liked the 680x0 series and find CISC and SIMD or MIMD a bit cumbersome. I use what I can get, it just would like a little more flexibility in my design as I have the skill to use it and this has always been the case. CPUs based on DNA should be available and perhaps I should focus effort to see that design is more flexible from the start. It shocks me that video is generated as SVGA then converted to digital with a DAC to display on new monitors. A digital interface would save a lot of waste, but its all just sand anyway so either way is fine. In the final analysis you are correct, it is what you can sell.
There was an article on connecting circuits with a solder that could be de-soldered with magnetic fields and it seems that the obvious future gain is reuse. If all they are doing is packing more cores in a package, the CPU should retain its value and if an effective method could be created to allow me to add new cores or delete cores that fail, then it would be just like memory. If somebody came up with a machine that could plug cores up to even 64x, it would seem that it would allow stability for twelve years. I helped design motherboard chip sets long ago and it seems that this isn't that big a trick. With current FPGA technology the interface logic could be reused with a reprogram. It seems like a walk in the park compared to what we did 25 years ago with masked ASICs at 50K a pop. Just like the use of RAID, this should provide a market for the technical implementer. It seems like opportunity for the manufactures too, as that need for speed could be translated into constant desire. If I had just one more core I could compile in 3,374 seconds instead of 4,809 and that would save me more time to read those really important/. articles I missed.
Very interesting and certainly an intelligent and considered reply. I recently finished graduate biochemistry, bioinformatics and cloning lab.
As a programmer by trade, it would seem to me that if you capture samples from the universe in all spectra for 50 years that it makes a pile of data that becomes more able to discriminate any deviation from the norm. I have done infrared spectroscopy so I understand what you are saying about the ability to identify specific bond types or umbrella scattering. I am also aware of the form of blackbody radiation and emission spectra of star classes. What I conjectured is that -if- life were common in the universe, that the deviation would be large. It was pure speculation on how I might proceed if I had the data available and was intending to mine it for patterns. If it were one sample or sensor then I could understand that discrimination is an issue. The technique is similar to the detection of planets about other stars. They cannot discriminate the object as it passes, but in the averages it presents a cyclic minimum and maximum. I don't see where I stated that I would look at a specific deviation that matched photosynthesis. It seems that if the black body radiation of a specific moon of Saturn was missing a specific wavelength that this would indicate a process which absorbed and converted that energy. Thermophiles operate without sunlight and other types of life use chemical compounds to power their growth. I also must nit pick the level of the effect as I have computed it many times. R=4K R^2=16m and distance is 93M and surface 4 PI 10^16 and thus it is about 10^9 / 10^16 or 10^-7 of the solar surface energy area that would be variant. This is about 10,000 times less that 1% which is less than 1% so you are correct. And Occam says it was just a flip comment off the top of my head so take it with as much Sodium Chloride as needed to neutralize the quality of content.
I don't know if they have thought of this, but it seems that what is not seen has more meaning than what is seen. If I had the data, I would look to see if the absorption spectrum was different at the primary frequency of the solar emissions and would indicate to me that life was present. I would assume that inorganic materials would have an absorption spectrum which was different from organic life as it uses this energy to manufacture itself. It would seem that this would be generally true in the overall spectrum of the universe and like the cosmic background measurements there should be a signature of the universe without life and one that indicates life. Just a thought.
Did you mean to apply brake instead of accelerate, Here are the results for brake 1. alive Here are the results for accelerate 1. dead. 2. I'm feeling lucky. Select your option. And yes I know I typed anser instead of answer. It is because I am not pefect.
A business makes money by definition. if [-e "whine"]; then echo "I feel your pain.";fi
If they had a section which said "Find out about buying X" they might actually get real results from the stuff. A Microsoft ad will never sell me anything and if there were an ad for routers I would probably click to see what they had to say. I personally do not like being treated like an object. If you run a site for an intelligent audience, don't treat them like tools or statistical models.
What about -intentional- reflow. It would be useless for Mil Spec certainly and I would guess that war walking could take on a new level of meaning. It would be interesting if they used multipurpose dies that could be connected and recycled to a new configuration. Oh yes, liquid metal terminator brains. Mmm brains.
This seems to be a classic mistake. It is assumed that there is a method which will control and regulate innovation in the physical world. It is a rookie programming mistake and is an ongoing fork bomb that is only limited by the inefficiency of the process itself . If it were a multitasking environment then the patent office would continually become more latent in response until it was absurdly unresponsive. It is fine to suggest that the addition of more CPU time might solve it , but if it is a fork bomb, the allocation of more resources will only exacerbate the problem. It is not possible to document or control a process that is exponential in form with a process that operates in linear time.
It is the case of the snake that eats itself. Paradoxical activity. A government can choose to be involved in anything and then later realize that it is an impossibility. I <em>won't</em> site a protracted land war in Asia as one.
At some point the government will realize that what they committed to do is impossible and then they will realize that impossible tasks means permanent appointments and this will become the most prized position.
Actually, that makes some sense though a bit drastic. If I remove one of my kidneys before I get infected and save it for when I get infected I can just really restore from backup.
That is innovative thinking, however, after a moment I realized that the kidneys would be infected also and as a result would reinfect the person when reconnected.
I wish we had this from MIT when I was in school.
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Strang, Lewin and others are really good teachers
UCLA and Stanford also have on line courses.
In college( 40 years ago) we poured the salt shakers into the ice water and then stuck the glass on a pat of butter to bond it to the trays. I don't find the speculation very interesting or new, either, and I will add that since they have no complete knowledge, and a way to verify, the planet could have been covered in fudge and cellophane. More scientifically, I could say that there are so many dimensions in the NULL space of that matrix that selecting one of infinite possible vector solutions is just silly^(n-r). And you forgot:
Surprisingly enough, I was wondering, last week, what could happen with ants that would be apocalyptic and this is number two apocalypse and it leads to number one. This is perhaps the stupidest thing that has ever been done. I can only think of one more immediate end to human life and that would be to introduce a virus that kills bees. This makes the introduction of species in Australia look like child's play. I can only hope that they are as incompetent as they are insane, and it fails to work.
You are right, I checked my drive and 100% of the leading digits are 1! Of course, I am using the SATA ext3 Zaphod Beeblebrox infinite probability drive to store my information, which might explain that.
0x57,0x54,0x46? 101-0111,101-0100,100-0110?
As much as it would simplify the process of meeting lonely, scantily clad, green alien women and make it possible for a geek to get a date, it seems that the only way to be sure that there is basis for this is to first create a time machine and go back to the big bang and verify the effect. The other problem then, is the fact that you won't get venture capital because of prior art. I agree with other posters that this might be far too coincidental to a movie release. It seems that radioactive spider stories declined after the release of Spiderman. I know correlation is not causation, but it might be suggestive: http://xkcd.com/552/
That made me laugh and think of them taking the technology from Body Snatchers and adding a blinky light interface. I see life more as a vector and it may be pointing at the distant stars. I must agree with some others here and say that we will not get the benefit of these new technologies unless we create them for ourselves and maintain the right to use them freely. Mom! my USB drive is stuck in my ear again.
I have to agree on that and add that as somebody who has done cloning and genetic testing, I see a real problem with gene chips that identify this strain. This is off the top of my head, but, If you create a chip that matches X and it changes to Y (more deadly) it misses. Also, If you are too non-specific in the match, it falses on almost everything. I think that it is a boondoggle to give money to the bio-chip companies who in turn make big political donations, I would guess.
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New Yorkers are not typically suckers. My guess:
1. Double the fare and I will charge it to the company and get reimbursed for double tip
2. Double the fare on the company if you know where I can get a date
3. Profit!
I have seen it played many ways. This is more likely a pattern that was just hidden.
What I want to see is if (gps(politician) == gps(lobbyist)){moneyChangesHands(howMuch);} .
You have obviously not taken anything apart lately. Chip On Plastic (COP) , SOIC (Small Outline IC), Chip On Glass (COG). I took apart an iPod to fix it and was surprised that the entire audio circuit was the size of a flea. The device was not very expensive and had a hard drive, CPU, and video interface small enough to fit in my wallet. The audio portion was smaller than my ear canal and mounted on plastic which is flexible. TFA is a reasonable concern for somebody who doesn't work with technology, but as other comments reflect, it is a simple thing to convert a pocket sized computer to do whatever you want with sound, including some semblance of captioning for the completely deaf. Bluetooth conceals the size of it anyway.
Basically the person is not shopping for something that works. If they understand what a DAC and ADC are then they should have no trouble making something and when they interview again they can show that they solve problems when encountered, which I think is an employable skill outside the government.
That is what I thought of immediately, but then they are not rocket scientists, oh wait...
Next they will need meta meta moderators to sift through all the phony reports of sun spots. /. -for a fee- as they have experience.
Actually this could be contracted out to
Obviously you have some knowledge of the business. "Isn't that big a trick" is relative to the skill set. I designed with later technology and Gatorade ( Gate arrays ) was just the start. I am quite aware of what goes into the designs as I worked in semiconductor wafer fabrication, stuffing and somebody has to design the equipment and process that instantiates that hardware.
I am just speculating on what might be useful in the future. As a programmer also, it is now necessary to think about threads and interlock. The CPU mfg can't design in the software to create independent threads. That has to take place at a higher level.
I would like to see a more open hardware environment as I believe it allows the technology to advance more quickly. I would like to see some USB OpenGL, or USB CPUs and some means to have an expandable system if I am required to do threading in the software, I would like to do more threads as it becomes easier to sort out projects. It would be nice to have a fiber optic core CPU with a satellite bus, to resolve dependencies between the threads.
I also do bioinformatics and Blue Gene is the machine we use. I have used hardware from the first IBM in BAL ( and COBOL ) with page thrashing and job control language. I like RISC and liked the 680x0 series and find CISC and SIMD or MIMD a bit cumbersome.
I use what I can get, it just would like a little more flexibility in my design as I have the skill to use it and this has always been the case.
CPUs based on DNA should be available and perhaps I should focus effort to see that design is more flexible from the start.
It shocks me that video is generated as SVGA then converted to digital with a DAC to display on new monitors. A digital interface would save a lot of waste, but its all just sand anyway so either way is fine.
In the final analysis you are correct, it is what you can sell.
There was an article on connecting circuits with a solder that could be de-soldered with magnetic fields and it seems that the obvious future gain is reuse. If all they are doing is packing more cores in a package, the CPU should retain its value and if an effective method could be created to allow me to add new cores or delete cores that fail, then it would be just like memory. If somebody came up with a machine that could plug cores up to even 64x, it would seem that it would allow stability for twelve years. I helped design motherboard chip sets long ago and it seems that this isn't that big a trick. With current FPGA technology the interface logic could be reused with a reprogram. /. articles I missed.
It seems like a walk in the park compared to what we did 25 years ago with masked ASICs at 50K a pop. Just like the use of RAID, this should provide a market for the technical implementer.
It seems like opportunity for the manufactures too, as that need for speed could be translated into constant desire. If I had just one more core I could compile in 3,374 seconds instead of 4,809 and that would save me more time to read those really important
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I smell my karma burning.
Very interesting and certainly an intelligent and considered reply. I recently finished graduate biochemistry, bioinformatics and cloning lab. As a programmer by trade, it would seem to me that if you capture samples from the universe in all spectra for 50 years that it makes a pile of data that becomes more able to discriminate any deviation from the norm.
I have done infrared spectroscopy so I understand what you are saying about the ability to identify specific bond types or umbrella scattering. I am also aware of the form of blackbody radiation and emission spectra of star classes. What I conjectured is that -if- life were common in the universe, that the deviation would be large. It was pure speculation on how I might proceed if I had the data available and was intending to mine it for patterns.
If it were one sample or sensor then I could understand that discrimination is an issue. The technique is similar to the detection of planets about other stars. They cannot discriminate the object as it passes, but in the averages it presents a cyclic minimum and maximum. I don't see where I stated that I would look at a specific deviation that matched photosynthesis. It seems that if the black body radiation of a specific moon of Saturn was missing a specific wavelength that this would indicate a process which absorbed and converted that energy. Thermophiles operate without sunlight and other types of life use chemical compounds to power their growth. I also must nit pick the level of the effect as I have computed it many times. R=4K R^2=16m and distance is 93M and surface 4 PI 10^16 and thus it is about 10^9 / 10^16 or 10^-7 of the solar surface energy area that would be variant. This is about 10,000 times less that 1% which is less than 1% so you are correct. And Occam says it was just a flip comment off the top of my head so take it with as much Sodium Chloride as needed to neutralize the quality of content.
I don't know if they have thought of this, but it seems that what is not seen has more meaning than what is seen. If I had the data, I would look to see if the absorption spectrum was different at the primary frequency of the solar emissions and would indicate to me that life was present. I would assume that inorganic materials would have an absorption spectrum which was different from organic life as it uses this energy to manufacture itself. It would seem that this would be generally true in the overall spectrum of the universe and like the cosmic background measurements there should be a signature of the universe without life and one that indicates life. Just a thought.
Did you mean to apply brake instead of accelerate,
Here are the results for brake 1. alive
Here are the results for accelerate 1. dead. 2. I'm feeling lucky.
Select your option. And yes I know I typed anser instead of answer. It is because I am not pefect.
A business makes money by definition. if [-e "whine"]; then echo "I feel your pain.";fi
If they had a section which said "Find out about buying X" they might actually get real results from the stuff. A Microsoft ad will never sell me anything and if there were an ad for routers I would probably click to see what they had to say. I personally do not like being treated like an object. If you run a site for an intelligent audience, don't treat them like tools or statistical models.
What about -intentional- reflow. It would be useless for Mil Spec certainly and I would guess that war walking could take on a new level of meaning. It would be interesting if they used multipurpose dies that could be connected and recycled to a new configuration. Oh yes, liquid metal terminator brains. Mmm brains.
This seems to be a classic mistake. It is assumed that there is a method which will control and regulate innovation in the physical world. It is a rookie programming mistake and is an ongoing fork bomb that is only limited by the inefficiency of the process itself . If it were a multitasking environment then the patent office would continually become more latent in response until it was absurdly unresponsive. It is fine to suggest that the addition of more CPU time might solve it , but if it is a fork bomb, the allocation of more resources will only exacerbate the problem. It is not possible to document or control a process that is exponential in form with a process that operates in linear time.
It is the case of the snake that eats itself. Paradoxical activity. A government can choose to be involved in anything and then later realize that it is an impossibility. I <em>won't</em> site a protracted land war in Asia as one.
At some point the government will realize that what they committed to do is impossible and then they will realize that impossible tasks means permanent appointments and this will become the most prized position.
In Russia the culture evolves you. Karma whoring is the oldest profession.
Actually, that makes some sense though a bit drastic. If I remove one of my kidneys before I get infected and save it for when I get infected I can just really restore from backup.
That is innovative thinking, however, after a moment I realized that the kidneys would be infected also and as a result would reinfect the person when reconnected.
I wish we had this from MIT when I was in school. http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/ Strang, Lewin and others are really good teachers UCLA and Stanford also have on line courses.
Heavy Internet usage.
That is my suggestion also, W3 . I addition I would recommend firebug. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 There is no better teacher than seeing how the scripts are actually implemented.
I don't find the speculation very interesting or new, either, and I will add that since they have no complete knowledge, and a way to verify, the planet could have been covered in fudge and cellophane.
More scientifically, I could say that there are so many dimensions in the NULL space of that matrix that selecting one of infinite possible vector solutions is just silly^(n-r).
And you forgot:
Surprisingly enough, I was wondering, last week, what could happen with ants that would be apocalyptic and this is number two apocalypse and it leads to number one.
This is perhaps the stupidest thing that has ever been done. I can only think of one more immediate end to human life and that would be to introduce a virus that kills bees.
This makes the introduction of species in Australia look like child's play.
I can only hope that they are as incompetent as they are insane, and it fails to work.
You are right, I checked my drive and 100% of the leading digits are 1! Of course, I am using the SATA ext3 Zaphod Beeblebrox infinite probability drive to store my information, which might explain that. 0x57,0x54,0x46? 101-0111,101-0100,100-0110?
As much as it would simplify the process of meeting lonely, scantily clad, green alien women and make it possible for a geek to get a date, it seems that the only way to be sure that there is basis for this is to first create a time machine and go back to the big bang and verify the effect. The other problem then, is the fact that you won't get venture capital because of prior art. :
I agree with other posters that this might be far too coincidental to a movie release. It seems that radioactive spider stories declined after the release of Spiderman. I know correlation is not causation, but it might be suggestive
http://xkcd.com/552/
That made me laugh and think of them taking the technology from Body Snatchers and adding a blinky light interface. I see life more as a vector and it may be pointing at the distant stars. I must agree with some others here and say that we will not get the benefit of these new technologies unless we create them for ourselves and maintain the right to use them freely.
Mom! my USB drive is stuck in my ear again.
I have to agree on that and add that as somebody who has done cloning and genetic testing, I see a real problem with gene chips that identify this strain.
This is off the top of my head, but, If you create a chip that matches X and it changes to Y (more deadly) it misses. Also, If you are too non-specific in the match, it falses on almost everything.
I think that it is a boondoggle to give money to the bio-chip companies who in turn make big political donations, I would guess.