As much as I think caps are bad, having Congress stick its fingers into business practices is worse.
A similar thing is happening with Chrysler and GM re-organizations. Congress is trying tell them which factories and dealerships to close ("not the one in my district"). The companies should figure that out.
The only complain I have about iPhone games is the big guy who sat in the middle seat on the plane and excitedly played one of those tilt-sensitive race car games all flight. I was elbowed a thousand times. Other than that iPhone games are pretty neat.
98% of books and 99.9% of magazines I never re-read. I'd prefer a library model, say $1 a day to read a book, then I could stop access and paying for it. The main exception would be course-texts.
Of course Amazon is going to claim the best personal book-reader and business model. But they make even more money if they support other readers, which they have done with iPhone. And that wont be the last. I wonder when someone will break their DRM?
The defense lawyers used widely varying statistical numbers from scientific experts to create doubt as to whether OJ Simpson's genes matched blood found at the crime scene. This was one piece of doubt among several others in the case before a jury eager to find any reasonable doubt to acquit.
Over the decades eleven countries have built rockets and orbited satellites. Private companies capabilities must be approaching the smaller countries by now.
William Shatner: "You know, before I answer any more questions there's something I wanted to say. Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!"
Smart phones are current decade's generation of personal computing like PDAs were in the 90s, and PCs in the 80s. We see some of the same trade-offs between of proprietary vs openess, short-cutting essential hardware features, clunky GUIs, etc we saw in the 80s. Will Apple's clean, but proprietary SDK win over the more portable, but clunky Android? Does a darkhouse OS like the new Pre, Windows ME, or micro-Java stand a chance? Will non-keyboard phones win over keyboard phones? And so on. Some of these debates have clear answers and others we are waiting for the market to decide.
The US was planning to send its fourth rover to mars- The Mars Science Lander- recently renamed Curiosity- during the once every 26 months Mars launch window (Oct 2009). But Curiosity turned into a bloatware monster, a billion over budget. Its as large and minivan and required new technology like retro-rocket lander and nuclear power energy which went over time and over budget. They've reconfigured it for the 2011 launch window.
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It isnt in the Chinese history books and frowned upon talking about.
Now there are good jobs, the internet (censored) and pop culture, to occupy students. These werent really around in China 20 years ago.
Not so much different in the USA. A couple weeks ago was the 40th anniversary the USA Tianamen- Kent State- when the US military shot college rioters dead. It was barely mentioned in the news and most young people hadnt heard of it.
Both incidents have iconic images: The civilian blocking the row of tanks; the hippie girl putting a flower in the barrel of the soldier's gun.
With the cheating level of undergraduates rumored to be around half, I wonder have this declines to only two percent by the time you got your PhD? Two answers: (1) Science cheating is under-reported, or (2) scientists check each other results especially if they are important. I'm in computational physics where its fairly straight-forward to replicate another's results. Cheaters are discovered quickly. Other lab-based fields may not be as easy to get caught.
I'm refer to the large number of complaints from Afghanistan and Pakistan about air-drone attacks. I dont think the drones are any more or less accurate in distinguishing civilians from foe than real soldiers. Mainly because its similar soldiers operating both ways. But maybe there more fear when a machine gets you instead of a person. Put yourself in their shoes and see how you'd feel.
> Realistically, I think it's the difference between 24-bit and 32-bit color on our computers.
conventional 24-bit computer monitors only display half of the color space human eyes can see. Occasionally at SIGGRAPH I 'll see attempts at full-color displays. (e.g. some use six color guns) Images look more vivid, especially tropical scenes. You also see the computer color defects when you compare the best digitized color photographs on a monitor to the art itself. Its lacking.
Gordon Bell is a supercomputer expert who migrated over to MicroSoft Research. His recent project is MyLifeBits, a complete digital record of one's life.
I am not sure where I read this, but some peopel are experimenting with wearable cameras to take snapshots of your entire day. The camera has a motion sensor in it to increase rates when the wearer appears more active. I suppose an iPhone could be programmed to track both motion and vocal activity of its host.
I further read that psychologists are using this for memory studies. Some hosts report an eerie telepresence effect when they review recent day or two's video. Researchers are studying the effect of periodic memory reinforcement. Perhaps an appliance could be developed for those with memory defects like early Alzheimers.
Because they had character, plot, and sentimentality. F/X and CGI was a tool to implement living cars and talking rats seamlessly with out getting in the way of interesting stories.
Probably everyone has felt a a tool or a sports equipment become a subconscious part of the body. For me its the keyboard and the steering wheel. The concept of "body image" is one of these extra senses. It is malleable. It can subconsciously incorporate extensions after hours of practice. Or it can it can still "feel itself" after a part of the body has been lost.
There was an article about the evolution of color vision in primates in a recent issues of Scientific American.
Most mammals only see two primary colors while higher primates see three. The hypothesis is this helps distinguish plant foods better.
The primate third color gene is on the X-chromosome next to the 2nd color gene. The evolutionary mechanism is thought to be gene duplication with mutation of one copy. This mechanism very common. Some human females have been observed to have a fourth color gene which is similar to the recently evolved one.
Scientists have inserted the 3rd color gene into rats which normally just have two genes. These rats can be trained to can distinguish more subtle colors then. Apparently no extra genes are need to wire the brain to see extra colors.
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As much as I think caps are bad, having Congress stick its fingers into business practices is worse.
A similar thing is happening with Chrysler and GM re-organizations. Congress is trying tell them which factories and dealerships to close ("not the one in my district"). The companies should figure that out.
Does it have the 750,000 titles available through Kindle?
The only complain I have about iPhone games is the big guy who sat in the middle seat on the plane and excitedly played one of those tilt-sensitive race car games all flight. I was elbowed a thousand times. Other than that iPhone games are pretty neat.
98% of books and 99.9% of magazines I never re-read. I'd prefer a library model, say $1 a day to read a book, then I could stop access and paying for it. The main exception would be course-texts.
Of course Amazon is going to claim the best personal book-reader and business model. But they make even more money if they support other readers, which they have done with iPhone. And that wont be the last. I wonder when someone will break their DRM?
SGI stopped making supers many years ago.
The defense lawyers used widely varying statistical numbers from scientific experts to create doubt as to whether OJ Simpson's genes matched blood found at the crime scene. This was one piece of doubt among several others in the case before a jury eager to find any reasonable doubt to acquit.
Over the decades eleven countries have built rockets and orbited satellites. Private companies capabilities must be approaching the smaller countries by now.
William Shatner: "You know, before I answer any more questions there's something I wanted to say. Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!"
Smart phones are current decade's generation of personal computing like PDAs were in the 90s, and PCs in the 80s. We see some of the same trade-offs between of proprietary vs openess, short-cutting essential hardware features, clunky GUIs, etc we saw in the 80s. Will Apple's clean, but proprietary SDK win over the more portable, but clunky Android? Does a darkhouse OS like the new Pre, Windows ME, or micro-Java stand a chance? Will non-keyboard phones win over keyboard phones? And so on. Some of these debates have clear answers and others we are waiting for the market to decide.
The US was planning to send its fourth rover to mars- The Mars Science Lander- recently renamed Curiosity- during the once every 26 months Mars launch window (Oct 2009). But Curiosity turned into a bloatware monster, a billion over budget. Its as large and minivan and required new technology like retro-rocket lander and nuclear power energy which went over time and over budget. They've reconfigured it for the 2011 launch window.
Old computer languages/systems seem to never die.
This was worked out 250 years ago in the Newtonian framework.
I havent played it yet. But early reviews say the autonomous characters are pretty good.
It isnt in the Chinese history books and frowned upon talking about. Now there are good jobs, the internet (censored) and pop culture, to occupy students. These werent really around in China 20 years ago.
Not so much different in the USA. A couple weeks ago was the 40th anniversary the USA Tianamen- Kent State- when the US military shot college rioters dead. It was barely mentioned in the news and most young people hadnt heard of it.
Both incidents have iconic images: The civilian blocking the row of tanks; the hippie girl putting a flower in the barrel of the soldier's gun.
With the cheating level of undergraduates rumored to be around half, I wonder have this declines to only two percent by the time you got your PhD? Two answers: (1) Science cheating is under-reported, or (2) scientists check each other results especially if they are important. I'm in computational physics where its fairly straight-forward to replicate another's results. Cheaters are discovered quickly. Other lab-based fields may not be as easy to get caught.
I was relieved last year when I found they couldnt make a black hole.
Maybe there are some ancient government computer backdoors out there that work with ancient modems. - Ferris Bueller
It was conceived about the time pulsars were discovered.
I'm refer to the large number of complaints from Afghanistan and Pakistan about air-drone attacks. I dont think the drones are any more or less accurate in distinguishing civilians from foe than real soldiers. Mainly because its similar soldiers operating both ways. But maybe there more fear when a machine gets you instead of a person. Put yourself in their shoes and see how you'd feel.
> Realistically, I think it's the difference between 24-bit and 32-bit color on our computers. conventional 24-bit computer monitors only display half of the color space human eyes can see. Occasionally at SIGGRAPH I 'll see attempts at full-color displays. (e.g. some use six color guns) Images look more vivid, especially tropical scenes. You also see the computer color defects when you compare the best digitized color photographs on a monitor to the art itself. Its lacking.
Gordon Bell is a supercomputer expert who migrated over to MicroSoft Research. His recent project is MyLifeBits, a complete digital record of one's life.
I am not sure where I read this, but some peopel are experimenting with wearable cameras to take snapshots of your entire day. The camera has a motion sensor in it to increase rates when the wearer appears more active. I suppose an iPhone could be programmed to track both motion and vocal activity of its host.
I further read that psychologists are using this for memory studies. Some hosts report an eerie telepresence effect when they review recent day or two's video. Researchers are studying the effect of periodic memory reinforcement. Perhaps an appliance could be developed for those with memory defects like early Alzheimers.
Because they had character, plot, and sentimentality. F/X and CGI was a tool to implement living cars and talking rats seamlessly with out getting in the way of interesting stories.
Probably everyone has felt a a tool or a sports equipment become a subconscious part of the body. For me its the keyboard and the steering wheel. The concept of "body image" is one of these extra senses. It is malleable. It can subconsciously incorporate extensions after hours of practice. Or it can it can still "feel itself" after a part of the body has been lost.
There was an article about the evolution of color vision in primates in a recent issues of Scientific American. Most mammals only see two primary colors while higher primates see three. The hypothesis is this helps distinguish plant foods better.
The primate third color gene is on the X-chromosome next to the 2nd color gene. The evolutionary mechanism is thought to be gene duplication with mutation of one copy. This mechanism very common. Some human females have been observed to have a fourth color gene which is similar to the recently evolved one.
Scientists have inserted the 3rd color gene into rats which normally just have two genes. These rats can be trained to can distinguish more subtle colors then. Apparently no extra genes are need to wire the brain to see extra colors.