Simian Immune Deficiency Virus was thought to be inert in chimps. It was speculated they evolved past it long ago. But now its been discovered it slowly kills chimps much like AIDS does to humans. SIV may be a predecessor of the human virus.
Some people at NASA are talking about deorbiting the ISS as early as 2016. This report is probably a red-herring to raise mroe funds from Congress. But some people are thinking about dumping it. Russians think it can last until 2020 or 2030. Partners could pick it up if US drops out.
Before there were domain names you had to upload a new/etc/hosts periodically. These became unwieldly were the internet increase to more than ten thousand sites.
slashdot editors must live in caves
on
Tetraktys
·
· Score: 1
Interesting PBS NOVA show on Global Dimming or the effects of a hundred thousand US jet flights a day. they mostly halted the three days after 9-11. The upper atmosphere become noticeably more clear in that short period.
(inclduign grad school publication)
You get much more recognition and brownie points for tenure if you publish in certain journals in your field. Its a racket.
One of the leading science journals Nature just had an editorial requesting that scientific societies establish policies on tweeting an blogging of talks at conferences. They recommend either complete openess or complete closure. Much of this now done by tech-savy excited grad students chatting among themselves. But some scientific societies consider this a form of competitive pre-publication, particularly in biosciences where commercial speed is important.
This concern is not new. I've been at conferences in the pre-digital era where sneaky people tape record the talk and film photograph every slide. New technology in every cellphone make this much easier to do.
MIT is encouraging every faculty member to deposit an electronic copy of their published papers into a free library server. And MIT is providing free software and hardware resources to do this. MIT is one of 50 universities that now do this, but made the biggest splash announcing it earlier this year.
However a faculty can opt out a paper if a journal absolutely refuses making a paper open as some do. A more common compromise is the journal has electronic rights for 12 months with faculty rights after that. All in the name of financing the journal.
I always viewed Big Brother is a kindly grandfather type who told a lot of lies.
Bill as a "booth babe" at early computer fair
on
Bill Gates Remembers 1979
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
I attended the the 2nd West Coast Computer Fair in 1978 in San Jose.
I remember Bill as a skinny red hair kid promoting BASIC in the MSFT booth.
These computer fairs were exciting. Before them, computers were mainly sold by corporations to other corporations. They were locked up then in central IT facilities. (Well, some things never change:-)
This same prediction was made by the fathers of Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s. School boys now have computers in their bedrooms a million times more powerful than then. I am stillwaiting for this predictionto come true.
Forty times more frequent
2000 comes from thsi informal study.
how national lab open houses?
on
The Geek Atlas
·
· Score: 1
I've attended such at the Jet Propulsion Lab and the USGS. These tend to be more substantive than your generic tour.
I go on geek vacations
on
The Geek Atlas
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
A good fraction of my vacation trips are for educational reasons. I want to see places, museums. conventions where I can learn new things. Some of my friends think I am crazy to do this rather than to go vacationing for pure pleasure and relaxation.
For example in April 2008 I went to central New Mexico to catch three main sites: the Trinity bomb site (open only two Saturdays a year because its inside a military base), the Socorro large radio telecope array (the staple of almost many scifi movies), and Roswell. Along the way I hit the Almogorov Space Museum (sadly declining), and the Albquerque Atomic and Ballooning museums. Los Alamos is also not far away.
My next goal is to catch one of the seven remaining shuttle launches. I better get organized because they end soon.
All those complicated binary formats could forgotten by year 3000, if not 2025. A cryptographer in the future working with a microscope could fairly easy work out the pattern of DVD pits signified English letters and words. Egyptian heiroglyphics- forgotten for 1500 years- would have been harder to decipher. Should our electronic culture NOT be disrupted in the next thousand years, FORTRAN and JPEG will probably still be used in year 3000.
Cells first developed radiation damage mechanism to repair UV damage. When photsynthesis evolved, cells wanted to get closer to the sun, yet avoid the effects of UV radiation in an Earth lacking an ozone layer. Ozone depends on free oxygen in the atmosphere which was scarce in the first half of Earth history.
The second inducement was the incorporation of mitochrondria into eucharyote cells. This gave cells ten times the energy they had before to eventually power animal locomotion. However, mitochrondria spew out all kinds of nasty poisons like free oxygen, protons, and high electric fields. Cells had to develop mechanisms to neutralize these.
Seven times more efficient according to recent article .
Its fascinating you can teach an old dog new tricks with sufficient economic incentives. I welcome the competition among old and new technologies.
Until recently computerized, fingerprinting did not have rigorous scientific studies we demand of newer methods like DNA and brain patterns. When a fingerprint expert witness got up said there "9 points of mathcing" or twenty or whatever, there wasnt the research and analysis to say that really meant anything. It wasnt until computerized matching was implemented on a large scale that some rigor was introduced. This more on a ad-hoc basis rather scientifically proven.
Slashdot Mirror
The first one found in 2005 made big news. Since then there have been seven more suspected.
Simian Immune Deficiency Virus was thought to be inert in chimps. It was speculated they evolved past it long ago. But now its been discovered it slowly kills chimps much like AIDS does to humans. SIV may be a predecessor of the human virus.
Some people at NASA are talking about deorbiting the ISS as early as 2016. This report is probably a red-herring to raise mroe funds from Congress. But some people are thinking about dumping it. Russians think it can last until 2020 or 2030. Partners could pick it up if US drops out.
We may socially subfunctional, but we can still tell right from wrong.
Before there were domain names you had to upload a new /etc/hosts periodically. These became unwieldly were the internet increase to more than ten thousand sites.
For believing these claims. WRONG!
Interesting PBS NOVA show on Global Dimming or the effects of a hundred thousand US jet flights a day. they mostly halted the three days after 9-11. The upper atmosphere become noticeably more clear in that short period.
(inclduign grad school publication)
You get much more recognition and brownie points for tenure if you publish in certain journals in your field. Its a racket.
One of the leading science journals Nature just had an editorial requesting that scientific societies establish policies on tweeting an blogging of talks at conferences. They recommend either complete openess or complete closure. Much of this now done by tech-savy excited grad students chatting among themselves. But some scientific societies consider this a form of competitive pre-publication, particularly in biosciences where commercial speed is important.
This concern is not new. I've been at conferences in the pre-digital era where sneaky people tape record the talk and film photograph every slide. New technology in every cellphone make this much easier to do.
MIT is encouraging every faculty member to deposit an electronic copy of their published papers into a free library server. And MIT is providing free software and hardware resources to do this. MIT is one of 50 universities that now do this, but made the biggest splash announcing it earlier this year.
However a faculty can opt out a paper if a journal absolutely refuses making a paper open as some do. A more common compromise is the journal has electronic rights for 12 months with faculty rights after that. All in the name of financing the journal.
The more colourful birds, frogs, antlers on bucks, etc. are male. Plus they sng, dance, and fight to attract females.
Humans are somewhat unusual in that both genders are evolving sexual display.
I always viewed Big Brother is a kindly grandfather type who told a lot of lies.
I attended the the 2nd West Coast Computer Fair in 1978 in San Jose. I remember Bill as a skinny red hair kid promoting BASIC in the MSFT booth.
:-)
These computer fairs were exciting. Before them, computers were mainly sold by corporations to other corporations. They were locked up then in central IT facilities. (Well, some things never change
This same prediction was made by the fathers of Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s. School boys now have computers in their bedrooms a million times more powerful than then. I am stillwaiting for this predictionto come true.
New name, but same-old same-old.
Forty times more frequent 2000 comes from thsi informal study.
I've attended such at the Jet Propulsion Lab and the USGS. These tend to be more substantive than your generic tour.
A good fraction of my vacation trips are for educational reasons. I want to see places, museums. conventions where I can learn new things. Some of my friends think I am crazy to do this rather than to go vacationing for pure pleasure and relaxation.
For example in April 2008 I went to central New Mexico to catch three main sites: the Trinity bomb site (open only two Saturdays a year because its inside a military base), the Socorro large radio telecope array (the staple of almost many scifi movies), and Roswell. Along the way I hit the Almogorov Space Museum (sadly declining), and the Albquerque Atomic and Ballooning museums. Los Alamos is also not far away.
My next goal is to catch one of the seven remaining shuttle launches. I better get organized because they end soon.
Russians built the Zvezda module according to Wiki
All those complicated binary formats could forgotten by year 3000, if not 2025. A cryptographer in the future working with a microscope could fairly easy work out the pattern of DVD pits signified English letters and words. Egyptian heiroglyphics- forgotten for 1500 years- would have been harder to decipher.
Should our electronic culture NOT be disrupted in the next thousand years, FORTRAN and JPEG will probably still be used in year 3000.
Cells first developed radiation damage mechanism to repair UV damage. When photsynthesis evolved, cells wanted to get closer to the sun, yet avoid the effects of UV radiation in an Earth lacking an ozone layer. Ozone depends on free oxygen in the atmosphere which was scarce in the first half of Earth history.
The second inducement was the incorporation of mitochrondria into eucharyote cells. This gave cells ten times the energy they had before to eventually power animal locomotion. However, mitochrondria spew out all kinds of nasty poisons like free oxygen, protons, and high electric fields. Cells had to develop mechanisms to neutralize these.
Seven times more efficient according to recent article . Its fascinating you can teach an old dog new tricks with sufficient economic incentives. I welcome the competition among old and new technologies.
Until recently computerized, fingerprinting did not have rigorous scientific studies we demand of newer methods like DNA and brain patterns. When a fingerprint expert witness got up said there "9 points of mathcing" or twenty or whatever, there wasnt the research and analysis to say that really meant anything. It wasnt until computerized matching was implemented on a large scale that some rigor was introduced. This more on a ad-hoc basis rather scientifically proven.
Sorry 'tard. Completion in seven more missions in 2010. 2016 - 2010 = 6.
Kind silly spending $100B on something that only lasts 6 years.