More and better Earth and Space-based telescopes just keep on coming.
Its appropriate since Galileo took this Dutch novelty exactly four centuries ago and asked "I wonder what I'll see if I look at the night sky?"
I'm looking forward to when various systematic mapping projects put their results into Google Sky and related cloud servers for public access. If you check out the site nmannedspaceflight.com you'll see how amatuers are poring over this kind of data to make important discoveries of near earth objects, internal shadows in Saturns rings, and the like which professionals may have overlooked.
Until the recession hit. That cut TBoone's cost in have. Even he lacks unlimited money.
2012 may not be "2012" then
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If the this sunspot cycle had kept on schedule, then the peak activity would have been around 2012. Each cycle Earthlings become more dependent on their satellites (e.g. GPS) and electric grid. Both of these can be severely disrupted by large solar storms. My pet hypothesis is that nastiness in 2012 could have been caused by the peak, but that is unlikely now.
Android, iPhone, WME: your choice.
These gizos are loaded with more GUI devices than average computer which suggest creative uses.
At the same time cell phones have less computing resources- almost as small as a 20th century computer [shudder]. Limited resources can teach you some programming economies.
On the American side of the pond few Americans care or think GM is harmful. In Europe almost everyone abhors it. Its gotten bad enough that American grain aid to Dafur and other starving African areas sometimes rots in warehouses because the Euro advisors tell Africans the grainis poisonous.
The Pathfinder was the size of toy car.
Spirit and Opportunity the size of golf cart.
Curosity (Mars Science Lab) is the size of an SUV.
This last one is is over two years late, a billion over budget, and tempting Congress to cut NASA's budget drastically.
Mitochrondia merged with eukaryote cells about a billion years ago. This allowed eukaryotes to increase metabolic power an order of magnitude over bacteria and evolve locomotive animal life.
A mystery is why mitochondia kept enough DNA to code for about 10% of their proteins after all these eons. They get the other 90% of proteins from nuclear DNA of the host cells. Nick Lane suggests in his mitochondria book this DNA codes for the most essential emzymes such as those that break down free-radical waste which could quickly kill the mitchrondia.
About 50 Martian meteors have been discovered so- mostly on Antarctica glaciers. Thats probably a tiny fraction of thousands upon thousands to have rained upon the Earth. Couple this with discoveries that bacteria apparently have lived inside of rock deep in the Earth for tens of millions of year and you have a mechanism of infecting the entire solar system over the eons. Gravity wells make some transport directions more likely than others. But over the vast amounts of time probably samples of every planet and moon have reached every other.
My prediction is some parts of Mars are hospitable to extremophile life and we will eventually discover it. It may be canyons where water-bearing layers appear to leak now and then. I further predict this life will very much look like Earth's. And the interesting follow-on question will be which planet did life start on first.
A number of people think music co-evolved with language, but not sure why. Harvard Prof Pinker calls music an epiphenomenom- something that came along with the ride along with other more important cognitive abilities.
Music ability appears to occupy other parts of the brain than language. Brain damage- (strokes, lesion) may damage one ability, but not the other. Some stutterers can sing or chant verse without stuttering.
According to the hospital press release. The score depends on how ill you are and how well the available organ matches. Steve probably had the advantage he could be on more center lists than the average patients due to access to transport.
Thats how they plowed into being the world's number one low-price retailer. They move a half trillion of product a year and know where most of it is any anytime to the single item. I not interested in business IT, but I have to admire their results. (Maybe they should have used some of that dough to hire style consultants like a Martha Stewart.)
Lets look as far into the future as the past.
I'll use my perspective as having been an experienced computer engineer back in 1982 (same age as Steve J).
Some aspects will evolve at Moore's Law. Some aspects may reach saturation where new features dont make design or engineering sense (e.g. stagnant pocket calculators). And the things that much slower than Moore's, e.g energy sources.
First, will the pocket-to-palm size video screen form factor still make sense? Yes it feels natural. Perhaps thinner so it feels more like a credit card.
The pixel resolution may double. Much more than that and the human eye really cant see the detail. Color and contrast had a long way to go. The superior experimental monitors at SIGGRAPH have such resolution, contrast and color that its hard to tell whether you are looking through a window or at a computer screen. Nd you'll have full phot-realistic 3D too. That already exists, but need miniaturization.
Alternative video technologies might abandon a video screen altogether in favor of projecting on a flat surface, the eyeball, or into a 3D volume. Scanning -projectors could be as small as keychain or a bump in your eyeglasses. But I still think theres a usability advantage to a palm-size rigid screen.
Storage will probably grow as fast in near decades as it has in recent decades. Ten gigbytes of flash would become a 100 petabytes in that period.
Communication bandwidths will increase too. I expect several oscillations of client versus server storage wars as we have had recently. Will all that storage be used for personal video libraries in your pocket, or will you store in a mass central location.
Device power will continue to be a problem. Both auto manufacturers and portable computer engineers know electric energy sources havent progessed that much in a century - maybe an order of magnitude over that time.
Some version or descendent of UNIX will drive the product. In my perspective software has been more conservative than hardware over the decades. You dont have to dig too deeply into Linus or Windows to find pieces from the 1970s or earlier.
However, the other end of software- the end application- is much harder to predict. With every new computer form factor there is an explosion of application creativity. And we are at the early end of the curve for pocket computers. Part of this creativity is fueled by the variety of sensors all in one small box- camera, voice, touch, orientation, position, etc. Perhaps more sensors will be added to sense the biological state of the hand or person holding it.
I'm guessing that he took medical leave because an imminent transplant. Probably more like 5 months then. This is merely a technicality and doesnt really matter.
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XWindows was remote window graphics developed at Stanford and fortified at MIT during the 1980s.
More and better Earth and Space-based telescopes just keep on coming.
Its appropriate since Galileo took this Dutch novelty exactly four centuries ago and asked "I wonder what I'll see if I look at the night sky?"
I'm looking forward to when various systematic mapping projects put their results into Google Sky and related cloud servers for public access. If you check out the site nmannedspaceflight.com you'll see how amatuers are poring over this kind of data to make important discoveries of near earth objects, internal shadows in Saturns rings, and the like which professionals may have overlooked.
Heres a and article about Korea. 60 Minutes or Dateline ran a story on these.
Until the recession hit. That cut TBoone's cost in have. Even he lacks unlimited money.
If the this sunspot cycle had kept on schedule, then the peak activity would have been around 2012. Each cycle Earthlings become more dependent on their satellites (e.g. GPS) and electric grid. Both of these can be severely disrupted by large solar storms. My pet hypothesis is that nastiness in 2012 could have been caused by the peak, but that is unlikely now.
Android, iPhone, WME: your choice.
These gizos are loaded with more GUI devices than average computer which suggest creative uses. At the same time cell phones have less computing resources- almost as small as a 20th century computer [shudder]. Limited resources can teach you some programming economies.
There is demand for them. In colorado someone stole them off a public building near aspen.
At least in the Tim Burton version with Jack Nicholson. Maybe the government will force us all to have this surgery.
On the American side of the pond few Americans care or think GM is harmful. In Europe almost everyone abhors it. Its gotten bad enough that American grain aid to Dafur and other starving African areas sometimes rots in warehouses because the Euro advisors tell Africans the grainis poisonous.
The Pathfinder was the size of toy car.
Spirit and Opportunity the size of golf cart.
Curosity (Mars Science Lab) is the size of an SUV. This last one is is over two years late, a billion over budget, and tempting Congress to cut NASA's budget drastically.
Most states collect odometer date during emission tests, so they already [could] have this data.
Mitochrondia merged with eukaryote cells about a billion years ago. This allowed eukaryotes to increase metabolic power an order of magnitude over bacteria and evolve locomotive animal life.
A mystery is why mitochondia kept enough DNA to code for about 10% of their proteins after all these eons. They get the other 90% of proteins from nuclear DNA of the host cells. Nick Lane suggests in his mitochondria book this DNA codes for the most essential emzymes such as those that break down free-radical waste which could quickly kill the mitchrondia.
Some have over a hunred billion base pairs. There a tremendous amount of junk DNA and gene duplication.
Size does not matter.
"Here are all the trees and bushes nearby big enough to pee behind"
If there is no aging decline.
About 50 Martian meteors have been discovered so- mostly on Antarctica glaciers. Thats probably a tiny fraction of thousands upon thousands to have rained upon the Earth. Couple this with discoveries that bacteria apparently have lived inside of rock deep in the Earth for tens of millions of year and you have a mechanism of infecting the entire solar system over the eons. Gravity wells make some transport directions more likely than others. But over the vast amounts of time probably samples of every planet and moon have reached every other.
My prediction is some parts of Mars are hospitable to extremophile life and we will eventually discover it. It may be canyons where water-bearing layers appear to leak now and then. I further predict this life will very much look like Earth's. And the interesting follow-on question will be which planet did life start on first.
A number of people think music co-evolved with language, but not sure why. Harvard Prof Pinker calls music an epiphenomenom- something that came along with the ride along with other more important cognitive abilities.
Music ability appears to occupy other parts of the brain than language. Brain damage- (strokes, lesion) may damage one ability, but not the other. Some stutterers can sing or chant verse without stuttering.
According to the hospital press release. The score depends on how ill you are and how well the available organ matches. Steve probably had the advantage he could be on more center lists than the average patients due to access to transport.
Thats should keep them busy for decades.
Thats how they plowed into being the world's number one low-price retailer. They move a half trillion of product a year and know where most of it is any anytime to the single item. I not interested in business IT, but I have to admire their results. (Maybe they should have used some of that dough to hire style consultants like a Martha Stewart.)
Lets look as far into the future as the past.
I'll use my perspective as having been an experienced computer engineer back in 1982 (same age as Steve J).
Some aspects will evolve at Moore's Law. Some aspects may reach saturation where new features dont make design or engineering sense (e.g. stagnant pocket calculators). And the things that much slower than Moore's, e.g energy sources.
First, will the pocket-to-palm size video screen form factor still make sense? Yes it feels natural. Perhaps thinner so it feels more like a credit card.
The pixel resolution may double. Much more than that and the human eye really cant see the detail. Color and contrast had a long way to go. The superior experimental monitors at SIGGRAPH have such resolution, contrast and color that its hard to tell whether you are looking through a window or at a computer screen. Nd you'll have full phot-realistic 3D too. That already exists, but need miniaturization.
Alternative video technologies might abandon a video screen altogether in favor of projecting on a flat surface, the eyeball, or into a 3D volume. Scanning -projectors could be as small as keychain or a bump in your eyeglasses. But I still think theres a usability advantage to a palm-size rigid screen.
Storage will probably grow as fast in near decades as it has in recent decades. Ten gigbytes of flash would become a 100 petabytes in that period.
Communication bandwidths will increase too. I expect several oscillations of client versus server storage wars as we have had recently. Will all that storage be used for personal video libraries in your pocket, or will you store in a mass central location.
Device power will continue to be a problem. Both auto manufacturers and portable computer engineers know electric energy sources havent progessed that much in a century - maybe an order of magnitude over that time.
Some version or descendent of UNIX will drive the product. In my perspective software has been more conservative than hardware over the decades. You dont have to dig too deeply into Linus or Windows to find pieces from the 1970s or earlier.
However, the other end of software- the end application- is much harder to predict. With every new computer form factor there is an explosion of application creativity. And we are at the early end of the curve for pocket computers. Part of this creativity is fueled by the variety of sensors all in one small box- camera, voice, touch, orientation, position, etc. Perhaps more sensors will be added to sense the biological state of the hand or person holding it.
I'm guessing that he took medical leave because an imminent transplant. Probably more like 5 months then. This is merely a technicality and doesnt really matter.
Dont you read slashdot replies?
By the time I get past the free internet terminals, the DVD collection, and the coffee bar, I recollect seeing a bookshelf way back there.
MSFT has have mostly boring and buggy products for years, and will will continue to do so.