You often dont know they are they there until they are knocking at the captain's door. And they can easily become more stealthly like the drug-runners who are even using submarines now.
I see how hard it is to get E85 (require a fourth fluid system in gas stations) and hydrogen stations off the ground. There are only handfuls of either in the USA. Battery replacements face a similar financial and consumer hurdle.
If stations are so rare, then so will be the vehicles. How do you break the logjam?
Many of us started running after Ken Coopers 1968 landmark book called aerobics.
His basically said what we now call "cardio" is the healthiest exercise.
Before then exercise programs mainly emulated the calisthetics of military basic training.
Ken Cooper developed a "point system" to rank sports and exercise.
Swimming and running came on top with about two hours of such a week reaching the top score.
This ignited the running boom, because all the type-A yuppies competed the highest aerobic scores.
The one problem was that there werent really running shoes at that time. Cross-country and track teams use track/soccer shoes with spikes designed for grass or wood chip surfaces. There wasnt anything with cushioning and support until Nike and Addias came along in the early 1970s. So hobby runenrs ran in ordinary gym shoes (like basketball sneakers) then. I was so young then that I could run in just about anything. But not now.
The US New Mexico radio telescope facility (the scene of countless scifi movies) is upgrading its current eight-band analog system to a mixed 16K band hybrid digital/analog system. The old system transmitted the analog signal via microwave pipes from up to 26 telescopes up to 8 miles apart. Then the signals were analog cross-correlated synthesized aperture to simulate a multi-mile telescope. When I visited in 2008 they said they were going to digitize the signal at the telescope, transmit it to the central computer facility, where it was converted back into analog and cross-correlated. They could capture 16K frequency bands this way. I didnt understand why they dont do the cross-correlation digitally. The highest frequency is 50 gigahertz, within the range of the fastest specialty chips.
Its as if China and US are swapping places because China is not afraid of high technology. (A little more caution might do them good.) China is steadily advancing its space program while the US lurches from political space goal to another. China is trying all kinds of advanced energy production with nuclear power and all-electric cars. China also became the worlds largest coal consumer in 2007.
When I've been in China on a extended visits, the science enthusiasm reminds of the US in the 1950s and 1960s, before Vietnam and Earth Day soured the public on hard science.
I expect Larry to be richer than Gates soon
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MicroSoft seems to have gone nowhere financially the past decade while Larry is still aggressively expanding his empire. Bill has been the more likeable and scientifically astute guy, but lost the busienss fire some time ago. Larry was 4th richest after Gates, Buffet, and Sims in 2008.
I asked Joe in 2008 when he was on a book tour about new book on Mars about the relationship between MIT's science reputation and his science fiction. He replied his two vocations were almost completely separate. His previous book about time travel the protagonist is a MIT grad student.
Academics are notoriously poor predictors, perhaps from living in the their ivory towers (yuppie bubbles). The most egregious example was the head of MIT's Media Lab, the prima donna of computer tech in its day, writing a book (Being Digital) in 1993 about the future of computing without mentioning the World Wide Web. To be fair, 1993 was year hoards of people started downloading the first decent browser (Mosaic) and hand-coding hmtl web pages for content. Negroponte's book was collection of columns he wrote for Wired Magazine in the previous three years.
Also MIT eventually become the base of the Web inventor - Tim Berners Lee. However once the Web became commercial it pretty much ignored Lee's additional ideas.
> Just one more thing George Lucas f&@ked up.
No, perhaps he was extrapolating a type of cell power
people in other species may possess.
There may be great things in microbiology yet undiscovered.
Its very difficult to separate out the different kinds of bacteria, identify them visually and cultivate them. Shotgun DNA originated by Craig Venter helps tell how many kinds of different bacteria species there are growing in different parts of the body. There are more kinds than people expected. Different locations of the body, gut, airways, skin creases, etc. have different ecologies.
Shotgun DNA is a "similar, but different approach". They first map every piece of DNA in every microbe (but in pieces). Then they look for a few key sequences somewhat conserved among species, and note minor differences. This distribution of differences gives a count of species and relatives amounts of each. Later on they may connect these to actual microbe types.
A billion or so years ago the forerunners of multicellular life made a devils pack with oxygen burning mitochrondia, thereby increasing their metabolic energy an order of magnitude over less powerful energy subsystems like lactosis and sulfur oxidation. This basically created animals with the power of locomotion. So I sometimes visualize a shadow "power body" inside my primary body of these teaming mitochrondia generating 90% of my power. This is not dissimular to prana in yoga, chi in daoism and the force in star wars. Not that I'm going to turn blue and start shooting electric bolts out of my fingers any time soon.
Before there was an industry standard, seismic data used to come in all kinds of tape formats from all kinds of computers. You could not be sure whether it as integer or floating point and which of a dozen kind of floating points, byte orders, and even bit-word lengths. So you'd look for repeated patterns that might indicate scan lengths and scan header packets, then decode the header and packets separately. In the data part you'd look for bits that changed slowly that could indicate the significant part of an integer or an floating point exponent. In later days when graphics was available, making a quick integer image was big diagnostic help.
I've only seen this in the Denver Post. But instead of terse mini-resume reporter interviews family and writes a half-page story under the banner 'Life Story'. A paper like the NY Times may do this for a distinguished person but our paper will do this for ordinary people. Many of these may or may not have done something special as a pioneer, hobby, soldier, etc. but will have soem rich expereiences nontheless. I find these stories interesting. They stand as a comparison to my own life.
So about 2 trillion speed increase in 61 years.
Thats a doubling speed of 18 month (41 doublings)
or order of magnitude per 5 years (12 magnitudes).
Exactly Moore's Law!
The official State Department position is you dont publically humilate captured enemies. Its is couter-productive. Its one of those unenforced polcies however.
Peter Huber in his book on energy policy introduces the concepts of the "energy pyramid" and "energy refining". The thesis that new forms of energy technology use more technology and are subsequently more useful. The pyramid levels include wood, coal, petroleum, electricity, computing and optical. When I read the book a few years ago I always found it curious that he included computing in the pyramid. But I hear about aggregate gigawatts of hundreds of mass server farms in the world, it may start making sense. The web has transformed human technology and the server farms are the battery of the web. When Huber wrote the book he used the example of the automobile as it started being mostly petroleum energy, then acquired more electricity sub systems, and now more computing.
MFST publishes anti-Linux material all the time
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You often dont know they are they there until they are knocking at the captain's door. And they can easily become more stealthly like the drug-runners who are even using submarines now.
Most of them deal with Dr. Manhattan's "naturalness" and some are funny. I saw a bunch at a recent Denver scifi convention.
I see how hard it is to get E85 (require a fourth fluid system in gas stations) and hydrogen stations off the ground. There are only handfuls of either in the USA. Battery replacements face a similar financial and consumer hurdle.
If stations are so rare, then so will be the vehicles. How do you break the logjam?
Book-format (codexes) werent really popular until A.D.
I am guessing because many Jewish temples use scroll-Torahs, that somebody has implemented a "virtual Torah".
Many of us started running after Ken Coopers 1968 landmark book called aerobics. His basically said what we now call "cardio" is the healthiest exercise. Before then exercise programs mainly emulated the calisthetics of military basic training. Ken Cooper developed a "point system" to rank sports and exercise. Swimming and running came on top with about two hours of such a week reaching the top score. This ignited the running boom, because all the type-A yuppies competed the highest aerobic scores.
The one problem was that there werent really running shoes at that time. Cross-country and track teams use track/soccer shoes with spikes designed for grass or wood chip surfaces. There wasnt anything with cushioning and support until Nike and Addias came along in the early 1970s. So hobby runenrs ran in ordinary gym shoes (like basketball sneakers) then. I was so young then that I could run in just about anything. But not now.
The US New Mexico radio telescope facility (the scene of countless scifi movies) is upgrading its current eight-band analog system to a mixed 16K band hybrid digital/analog system. The old system transmitted the analog signal via microwave pipes from up to 26 telescopes up to 8 miles apart. Then the signals were analog cross-correlated synthesized aperture to simulate a multi-mile telescope. When I visited in 2008 they said they were going to digitize the signal at the telescope, transmit it to the central computer facility, where it was converted back into analog and cross-correlated. They could capture 16K frequency bands this way. I didnt understand why they dont do the cross-correlation digitally. The highest frequency is 50 gigahertz, within the range of the fastest specialty chips.
Its as if China and US are swapping places because China is not afraid of high technology. (A little more caution might do them good.) China is steadily advancing its space program while the US lurches from political space goal to another. China is trying all kinds of advanced energy production with nuclear power and all-electric cars. China also became the worlds largest coal consumer in 2007.
When I've been in China on a extended visits, the science enthusiasm reminds of the US in the 1950s and 1960s, before Vietnam and Earth Day soured the public on hard science.
MicroSoft seems to have gone nowhere financially the past decade while Larry is still aggressively expanding his empire. Bill has been the more likeable and scientifically astute guy, but lost the busienss fire some time ago. Larry was 4th richest after Gates, Buffet, and Sims in 2008.
I asked Joe in 2008 when he was on a book tour about new book on Mars about the relationship between MIT's science reputation and his science fiction. He replied his two vocations were almost completely separate. His previous book about time travel the protagonist is a MIT grad student.
Academics are notoriously poor predictors, perhaps from living in the their ivory towers (yuppie bubbles). The most egregious example was the head of MIT's Media Lab, the prima donna of computer tech in its day, writing a book (Being Digital) in 1993 about the future of computing without mentioning the World Wide Web. To be fair, 1993 was year hoards of people started downloading the first decent browser (Mosaic) and hand-coding hmtl web pages for content. Negroponte's book was collection of columns he wrote for Wired Magazine in the previous three years.
Also MIT eventually become the base of the Web inventor - Tim Berners Lee. However once the Web became commercial it pretty much ignored Lee's additional ideas.
They are constantly looking for next mega-fad whether fashion or a toy. Most teens are smart enough not to be brainwashed by ads.
Dubai was building something like this to show how futuristic they are. But I think its been slowed down due to the plunge in oil profits.
> Just one more thing George Lucas f&@ked up. No, perhaps he was extrapolating a type of cell power people in other species may possess. There may be great things in microbiology yet undiscovered.
Its very difficult to separate out the different kinds of bacteria, identify them visually and cultivate them. Shotgun DNA originated by Craig Venter helps tell how many kinds of different bacteria species there are growing in different parts of the body. There are more kinds than people expected. Different locations of the body, gut, airways, skin creases, etc. have different ecologies.
Shotgun DNA is a "similar, but different approach". They first map every piece of DNA in every microbe (but in pieces). Then they look for a few key sequences somewhat conserved among species, and note minor differences. This distribution of differences gives a count of species and relatives amounts of each. Later on they may connect these to actual microbe types.
A billion or so years ago the forerunners of multicellular life made a devils pack with oxygen burning mitochrondia, thereby increasing their metabolic energy an order of magnitude over less powerful energy subsystems like lactosis and sulfur oxidation. This basically created animals with the power of locomotion. So I sometimes visualize a shadow "power body" inside my primary body of these teaming mitochrondia generating 90% of my power. This is not dissimular to prana in yoga, chi in daoism and the force in star wars. Not that I'm going to turn blue and start shooting electric bolts out of my fingers any time soon.
Social Security has been out front about what it does. In fact I believe its been too out front and pessimistic.
Before there was an industry standard, seismic data used to come in all kinds of tape formats from all kinds of computers. You could not be sure whether it as integer or floating point and which of a dozen kind of floating points, byte orders, and even bit-word lengths. So you'd look for repeated patterns that might indicate scan lengths and scan header packets, then decode the header and packets separately. In the data part you'd look for bits that changed slowly that could indicate the significant part of an integer or an floating point exponent. In later days when graphics was available, making a quick integer image was big diagnostic help.
I've only seen this in the Denver Post. But instead of terse mini-resume reporter interviews family and writes a half-page story under the banner 'Life Story'. A paper like the NY Times may do this for a distinguished person but our paper will do this for ordinary people. Many of these may or may not have done something special as a pioneer, hobby, soldier, etc. but will have soem rich expereiences nontheless. I find these stories interesting. They stand as a comparison to my own life.
So about 2 trillion speed increase in 61 years.
Thats a doubling speed of 18 month (41 doublings) or order of magnitude per 5 years (12 magnitudes).
Exactly Moore's Law!
The 19th century researchers were "shocked" by the super-sexuality of the various chimp species. (as if humans are substantially different)
The official State Department position is you dont publically humilate captured enemies. Its is couter-productive. Its one of those unenforced polcies however.
He wrote several boooks predicting the end of programming unless yo programmed jst like him
Peter Huber in his book on energy policy introduces the concepts of the "energy pyramid" and "energy refining". The thesis that new forms of energy technology use more technology and are subsequently more useful. The pyramid levels include wood, coal, petroleum, electricity, computing and optical. When I read the book a few years ago I always found it curious that he included computing in the pyramid. But I hear about aggregate gigawatts of hundreds of mass server farms in the world, it may start making sense. The web has transformed human technology and the server farms are the battery of the web. When Huber wrote the book he used the example of the automobile as it started being mostly petroleum energy, then acquired more electricity sub systems, and now more computing.
Either directly or via "independent testing companies" they finance. The important question is how much of this is valid compared to propaganda? And does anyone in the Linux world bother to pay attention?
She was oen the first world leaders to use television when that first came out (yes she is that old). One the first to have a website, etc.