One in 10E8 is the DNA base-pair copy error rate. Even so thats around 60 when a sperm meets egg. Another much more when there a trillion somatic cells dividing on average 50 times each in a human lifetime. The vast majority are errors are neutral, but accumulating ten or so specifically unluckly ones in a cell may be a cancer.
Both the New York Times and Business Week have stories about "iPhone millionaires". The iPhone is an interesting niche. Software goes for $1 to $10. However its super-easy to buy and install via the Apple iStore. And there are tens of millions of customers out there who can afford $2K for an iPhone and 2-year contract. Whats another few bucks for a frivolous or useful app?
OK the iPhone devkit is not C# or Windows-Compact-Edition, but a decent software person should be able to adapt to the new environment.
When lots of people job-hop in a good economy, companies will intentionally overhire to compensate. In recent months moany companies have eliminated this cushion in "modest" (single digit percentage) layoffs. Serious layoffs may be around the corner.
I was just reading the Pixar history book this weekend and reminded of Steve's eccentricities like two months almost solely ric macrobiotic diet; Atari putting him on the night shift because he smelled so bad...
The Denver quarterback had trouble keeping on weight two seasons ago and a surprise case of type-1 diabetes turned up. He didnt have other common symptoms like extreme fatigue, urination, etc., so doctors thought it was just stress. But high sugar turned up on his annual blood test.
Steve had some of his pancreas removed during his cancer and the remainder may become insufficient.
The body loses efficiency in absorbing some nutrients like B12 as one ages. Jobs has been known to have some weird diets when younger. But he has often hired private chefs who specialize in quality vegetarian preparation.
I attend them occasionally to hear something interesting (not just for the free pizza). Headhunters swarm them all the time offering about three times as many jobs as there are attendees.
Soem people postulate the filling of the Black Sea 7150 years ago.
Or the filling of the Mediteranean about 15000 years ago.
Thirdly, the end of the last ice was so quick that shorelines retracted miles in a person's lifetime then.
There are some "100 year loads" in Mesopotamia that are pretty nasty and Giglamesh could remember some of those. Flood legends are common around the world along with floods.
They were being used a diffuse eight-color lights composed of about 50 LEDs of the three primary colors. Probably saves a bundle on electricity and air conditioning. not as spotlight yet.
Challenger's lived about 2.5 minutes. Probably too fast to really have worried about it too much. In both cases the immediate cause of death was not the actual accident, but depressurization in one case, and water surfaceimpact trauma in the other.
It sounds from the report that some engineers speculated if they made the suits a little better, yada-yada, some could have survived. NOT.
Smart dust was supposed to be computers the size of glitter (square millimeter). Each would have a CPU, power access, and communications. These would be used for survellience and environmental monitoring. I recall labs simulating these with "domino-size" computers which can be constructed off the shelf.
Apple has recently perfected "one-click" software purchase and installation on their iPhone/iPod family. You can deliver software "on the whim" for $1-$10 to a potential market of tens of millions. Even if one in thousand purchase, you still clean up. Business week recently ran an article about this new class of iPhone software millionaires. Perfect platform for resurrecting many games.
Astronomers have been measuring subtle changes in Length-of-Day for decades. Its the advent of atomic clocks that has made this very precise. Length-of-Day responds to changes in mass distribution in the earth - like the spinning ice-skater who extends or contracts arms to change spin rate. Generally the main cause are ocean currents and seasonal weather patterns. In turn, these may be affected by small changes in solar output. Very large earthquakes like Indonesia 2004 will lift or drop enough rock to affect the the rotation rate. Glacial melting, increased/decreased erosion may change it too.
We can pretty much fake out visual actors, called "digital doubles". These are used mainly for stunt scenes and back-shooting, and the rare case an actor expires before shooting is over. We cant completely synthesize realistic voice from scratch yet. Thats why animators still hire voice-overs. Although with a large stored word dictionary, you can patch sentences together. That would probably work for Majel.
Because bit-rate of voice is one to two orders of magnitude smaller than graphics, people thought thae voice problem would have been solved first.
But I think it come at some time. They'll probably be a speaking game on your cell phone that will speak text simulating anyone of a large set of living or dead celebrity. Probably big bucks for whoever gets it to the market first. Plus sell new voices like ring-tones too.
I remember endless predictions that the upcoming year would be the year of the office network. Originally networks were supposed to share then-expensive resources like printers and large disks. Then networks to the outside world (wide-area) came into play in the later part of this period. The commercialization of the InterNet and web software finally got networks off the groudn in the 1990s.
At any given time a supercomputer is one order of magnitude world fastest computers.
This may have been a Year 2000 supercomputer, but far from one now.
Money doesnt just mean paper, but loans, and shares, insurance, and derivatives thereof. The problem was in the past decades tens of trillions of poorly structured derivatives called CDOs were created totally half of the world's financial assets. They were posed as private contracts- so they werent regulated by any government agency. They did not have asset reverses backing them up like banks accounts and insurance are required. They aren't tradeable on any exchange, so its difficult to come price them. The Fed and SEC were perfectly aware of them, but ignored them for many reasons.
The AirBook is only 2-some pounds, has limited core and disk memory and peripheral connectability. Except it costs four times other netbooks. But I can barely read the fuzzy screens the cheap ones.
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One in 10E8 is the DNA base-pair copy error rate. Even so thats around 60 when a sperm meets egg. Another much more when there a trillion somatic cells dividing on average 50 times each in a human lifetime. The vast majority are errors are neutral, but accumulating ten or so specifically unluckly ones in a cell may be a cancer.
Both the New York Times and Business Week have stories about "iPhone millionaires". The iPhone is an interesting niche. Software goes for $1 to $10. However its super-easy to buy and install via the Apple iStore. And there are tens of millions of customers out there who can afford $2K for an iPhone and 2-year contract. Whats another few bucks for a frivolous or useful app?
OK the iPhone devkit is not C# or Windows-Compact-Edition, but a decent software person should be able to adapt to the new environment.
When lots of people job-hop in a good economy, companies will intentionally overhire to compensate. In recent months moany companies have eliminated this cushion in "modest" (single digit percentage) layoffs. Serious layoffs may be around the corner.
I was just reading the Pixar history book this weekend and reminded of Steve's eccentricities like two months almost solely ric macrobiotic diet; Atari putting him on the night shift because he smelled so bad ...
Often they are first to go because they have the lowest firing costs. I know they a double-digit percentage of such in the past.
The Denver quarterback had trouble keeping on weight two seasons ago and a surprise case of type-1 diabetes turned up. He didnt have other common symptoms like extreme fatigue, urination, etc., so doctors thought it was just stress. But high sugar turned up on his annual blood test.
Steve had some of his pancreas removed during his cancer and the remainder may become insufficient.
The body loses efficiency in absorbing some nutrients like B12 as one ages. Jobs has been known to have some weird diets when younger. But he has often hired private chefs who specialize in quality vegetarian preparation.
I attend them occasionally to hear something interesting (not just for the free pizza). Headhunters swarm them all the time offering about three times as many jobs as there are attendees.
Soem people postulate the filling of the Black Sea 7150 years ago. Or the filling of the Mediteranean about 15000 years ago. Thirdly, the end of the last ice was so quick that shorelines retracted miles in a person's lifetime then. There are some "100 year loads" in Mesopotamia that are pretty nasty and Giglamesh could remember some of those. Flood legends are common around the world along with floods.
Whats the oldest verifiable event or person preserve in human oral or written history? I think we get barely half-way to this meteor.
The wonders of single-payer medicine.
They were being used a diffuse eight-color lights composed of about 50 LEDs of the three primary colors. Probably saves a bundle on electricity and air conditioning. not as spotlight yet.
Challenger's lived about 2.5 minutes. Probably too fast to really have worried about it too much. In both cases the immediate cause of death was not the actual accident, but depressurization in one case, and water surfaceimpact trauma in the other.
It sounds from the report that some engineers speculated if they made the suits a little better, yada-yada, some could have survived. NOT.
Smart dust was supposed to be computers the size of glitter (square millimeter). Each would have a CPU, power access, and communications. These would be used for survellience and environmental monitoring. I recall labs simulating these with "domino-size" computers which can be constructed off the shelf.
Apple has recently perfected "one-click" software purchase and installation on their iPhone/iPod family. You can deliver software "on the whim" for $1-$10 to a potential market of tens of millions. Even if one in thousand purchase, you still clean up. Business week recently ran an article about this new class of iPhone software millionaires. Perfect platform for resurrecting many games.
Its the size of its two controls, a clip, and phone jack. Fortunately a battery, flsah memory, and basc computer fits inside the same form factor.
Astronomers have been measuring subtle changes in Length-of-Day for decades. Its the advent of atomic clocks that has made this very precise. Length-of-Day responds to changes in mass distribution in the earth - like the spinning ice-skater who extends or contracts arms to change spin rate. Generally the main cause are ocean currents and seasonal weather patterns. In turn, these may be affected by small changes in solar output. Very large earthquakes like Indonesia 2004 will lift or drop enough rock to affect the the rotation rate. Glacial melting, increased/decreased erosion may change it too.
Her family company (Lincoln Enterprises) owned the rights to lots of Star Trek trademarks. She'd often do stints at the dealer's tables.
We can pretty much fake out visual actors, called "digital doubles". These are used mainly for stunt scenes and back-shooting, and the rare case an actor expires before shooting is over. We cant completely synthesize realistic voice from scratch yet. Thats why animators still hire voice-overs. Although with a large stored word dictionary, you can patch sentences together. That would probably work for Majel.
Because bit-rate of voice is one to two orders of magnitude smaller than graphics, people thought thae voice problem would have been solved first.
But I think it come at some time. They'll probably be a speaking game on your cell phone that will speak text simulating anyone of a large set of living or dead celebrity. Probably big bucks for whoever gets it to the market first. Plus sell new voices like ring-tones too.
I remember endless predictions that the upcoming year would be the year of the office network. Originally networks were supposed to share then-expensive resources like printers and large disks. Then networks to the outside world (wide-area) came into play in the later part of this period. The commercialization of the InterNet and web software finally got networks off the groudn in the 1990s.
At any given time a supercomputer is one order of magnitude world fastest computers. This may have been a Year 2000 supercomputer, but far from one now.
It built a might empire, with buildings and bridges still standing after all these millennia.
Money doesnt just mean paper, but loans, and shares, insurance, and derivatives thereof. The problem was in the past decades tens of trillions of poorly structured derivatives called CDOs were created totally half of the world's financial assets. They were posed as private contracts- so they werent regulated by any government agency. They did not have asset reverses backing them up like banks accounts and insurance are required. They aren't tradeable on any exchange, so its difficult to come price them. The Fed and SEC were perfectly aware of them, but ignored them for many reasons.
The AirBook is only 2-some pounds, has limited core and disk memory and peripheral connectability. Except it costs four times other netbooks. But I can barely read the fuzzy screens the cheap ones.
The US "secret trade weapon": safety and emission standards. Its coming: they learn quickly.