Funny, Al Caida sounds just like the Christian fighters in the Left Behind series usign the InterNet to coordinate activity. I think its soemone else than Al Caida *intentionally* cutting the cables.
The InterNet's parent, the military ArpaNet, was designed with no head or center, in order to survive a major war. Root name servers are a bit of a weeakness. But wayward ships and elementary school hackers seem have a good shot too.
During dot.com companies laid about twenty times the optical fiber backbone than the country was using. Lot of those companies went bankrupt. I remember the street being dug up a periodic basis in front of our tech office to lay yet another optical cable in the late 1990s. It wasnt hard to finance the tens of billions to lay that cable then.
What is missing is the "last mile problem" - how to best connect the backone to individual users: DSL, cable, wireless, etc.? Thats where the $100 billion need go.
I agree. Near instantaneous media revolutionaized the last 19th century and early 20th.
Using non-human or animal power for transportation, especially personal, was the early 20th century. The computer is a lesser transforming invention.
I'm looking forward to when they can figure out how to smooth out economic cycles and wars. Central planning ans statism hasnt so far. Neither has totally undridled free market. there was some hope in the late 20th century that liberal democracy was the answer, but it has its flaws too. We've had a quarter century of economic expansion, but that may not always continue.
Case 1: People felt that all computers would eventually be networked together. But the sudden rise of the browser-based Internet around 1993 caught a lot of people by surprise. Academics had been using ethernets/Arpanet for years, but with crude data exchange tools. Event head of the MIT Media Lab Nick Negropronte missed the rise of the browser in his monthly column called Being Digital for Wired Magazine those years.
Case 2 is little more current. I frequently mentioned the future or communication was ubquitous video, but I didnt see the cell phone camera/display as a major component.
Missing this stuff isnt new. Randall Stross, author of books on eBay, Jobs, and Thomas Edison, wrote that the original intention of Edisons phonograph was to speed up telegraphy. Messages would be pre-recorded, then played played across valuable telegraph wire 100x speeds, recorded and decoded offline by clerks. When Edison recogonized the voice potential, he mainly pushed the phonograph as secretarial aid. A competitor called Victorola discovered the mass music market (the iPod of the 1890s) and really caused mass use of phonographs.
- Van Braun thought he was capable of send up a satellite in late 1940s, but the US military didnt want to then.
- An earlier launch at Vandenburg failed. Two branches of the military were competing, but the Vandenburg one got first dibs. Van Braun kept a "skunk works" going with JPL just in case the other failed.
- The US was afraid of the legal aspects of orbiting a satellite over another country without their permission. That may have delayed the US effort.
- Eisenhower was an active participant in the space effort. He wasnt just a lame golfer.
Its just that a several of MESSENGER scientists lack the imagination and experience of a geologist. Keep your mind open for possible volcanics in the past.
The reason why arsenic so poisonous is that its chemical behavior is very similar to phosphorous- a unbiquitous element in your body. Yet it is just off enough to mess up lots of reactions.
I wonder if faux-DNA would posses similar limitations.
I used to like to all they building toy kits when I was a kid (pre-video games). I hear that most of them fell by the wayside due to tough liability laws. Lego bricks are too large for most kids to swallow or put in their eyes.
Chimeras are indviduals containing cells from two genomes. Mother-offspring chimeras maybe as high as 30%. Less common are sibling chimeras, via twin wombs or mother. And still more rare are father-offspring chimeras via organalles carried by the sperm and surviving fertilization.
Usually these chimeras are highly assymetric with the alien cells out-numbered by originals by a thousand to one or so. True symmetric chimeras are rare, perhaps due to absorbed twins in the womb.
This has created some problems with genetic forensics. I remember Dateline running a piece on it. For example, a daughter did not have her mother's mitochondria, but the chimeric other. This didnt come out until detailed testing was done and the mother lost the kid for a while. Chimeras complicated the indentification of remains of the last Tsars family. I forget whether it was the living relative or Tsar who was chimeric. One athlete in a doping scandal tried to complain he was a chimera and that threw off results, etc. This could complicate some some court cases, more likely the safer false-negatives than false-positives.
Im under the impression that chimeras are most feasible in the womb and infants before the immune system has a strong sense of self-identity. But adults may not be impossible either through intentional or accidental stem cell transplant.
The flip-case is auto-immune where the immune system attacks its host body. Possibly some of these case may be one half of chimera attacking the other.
They could not find an anticipated ether-drag.
Their result nicely dove-tailed with special relativity.
However Einstein started from first principles and not their result.
Perhaps the gravity result suggests a replacement for general relativity.
I see people lost in their iPods, cellphones, laptops, ignoring each other in public spaces. Its amusing how they ignore each other and sometimes trip over another.
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Farming, manufacturing has waste and other write-offs. What kind of percentages are wee talking about for various industries? 5%? 10%?
The great thing about NASA is they now release raw photos on the web within days. The ESA only releases occasional publicity photos from its Mars and Venus orbitors. They have a one-year embargo so the scientists can publish results first. That was NASA's policy too a long time ago. ESA might be doing interesting stuff, but nobody's going to hear about it.
Raw photos arent the best for scientific study. They have to have shape and lighting/color distortion corrected, and composited into larger photos or animations. NASA releases corrected photos a few months later.
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who rides on Waste Management trucks?
Is it called MicroHoo or YaSoft?
Funny, Al Caida sounds just like the Christian fighters in the Left Behind series usign the InterNet to coordinate activity. I think its soemone else than Al Caida *intentionally* cutting the cables.
The InterNet's parent, the military ArpaNet, was designed with no head or center, in order to survive a major war. Root name servers are a bit of a weeakness. But wayward ships and elementary school hackers seem have a good shot too.
During dot.com companies laid about twenty times the optical fiber backbone than the country was using. Lot of those companies went bankrupt. I remember the street being dug up a periodic basis in front of our tech office to lay yet another optical cable in the late 1990s. It wasnt hard to finance the tens of billions to lay that cable then.
What is missing is the "last mile problem" - how to best connect the backone to individual users: DSL, cable, wireless, etc.? Thats where the $100 billion need go.
I agree. Near instantaneous media revolutionaized the last 19th century and early 20th. Using non-human or animal power for transportation, especially personal, was the early 20th century. The computer is a lesser transforming invention.
I'm looking forward to when they can figure out how to smooth out economic cycles and wars. Central planning ans statism hasnt so far. Neither has totally undridled free market. there was some hope in the late 20th century that liberal democracy was the answer, but it has its flaws too. We've had a quarter century of economic expansion, but that may not always continue.
Case 1: People felt that all computers would eventually be networked together. But the sudden rise of the browser-based Internet around 1993 caught a lot of people by surprise. Academics had been using ethernets/Arpanet for years, but with crude data exchange tools. Event head of the MIT Media Lab Nick Negropronte missed the rise of the browser in his monthly column called Being Digital for Wired Magazine those years.
Case 2 is little more current. I frequently mentioned the future or communication was ubquitous video, but I didnt see the cell phone camera/display as a major component.
Missing this stuff isnt new. Randall Stross, author of books on eBay, Jobs, and Thomas Edison, wrote that the original intention of Edisons phonograph was to speed up telegraphy. Messages would be pre-recorded, then played played across valuable telegraph wire 100x speeds, recorded and decoded offline by clerks. When Edison recogonized the voice potential, he mainly pushed the phonograph as secretarial aid. A competitor called Victorola discovered the mass music market (the iPod of the 1890s) and really caused mass use of phonographs.
- Van Braun thought he was capable of send up a satellite in late 1940s, but the US military didnt want to then.
- An earlier launch at Vandenburg failed. Two branches of the military were competing, but the Vandenburg one got first dibs. Van Braun kept a "skunk works" going with JPL just in case the other failed.
- The US was afraid of the legal aspects of orbiting a satellite over another country without their permission. That may have delayed the US effort.
- Eisenhower was an active participant in the space effort. He wasnt just a lame golfer.
Its just that a several of MESSENGER scientists lack the imagination and experience of a geologist. Keep your mind open for possible volcanics in the past.
40 to 400 Teraflops at current numbers.
The reason why arsenic so poisonous is that its chemical behavior is very similar to phosphorous- a unbiquitous element in your body. Yet it is just off enough to mess up lots of reactions.
I wonder if faux-DNA would posses similar limitations.
If I search the contact-list, I might get 100,000 matches.
I think they tried this in cars some years ago - verbal alerts - and drivers hated it.
I used to like to all they building toy kits when I was a kid (pre-video games). I hear that most of them fell by the wayside due to tough liability laws. Lego bricks are too large for most kids to swallow or put in their eyes.
The genome wasnt even tested to see if it worked. Thats like writing a computer program, getting it to compile, but not running it.
Frequent, poor advice.
It may not have interesting products, but its making plenty of money.
Chimeras are indviduals containing cells from two genomes. Mother-offspring chimeras maybe as high as 30%. Less common are sibling chimeras, via twin wombs or mother. And still more rare are father-offspring chimeras via organalles carried by the sperm and surviving fertilization.
Usually these chimeras are highly assymetric with the alien cells out-numbered by originals by a thousand to one or so. True symmetric chimeras are rare, perhaps due to absorbed twins in the womb.
This has created some problems with genetic forensics. I remember Dateline running a piece on it. For example, a daughter did not have her mother's mitochondria, but the chimeric other. This didnt come out until detailed testing was done and the mother lost the kid for a while. Chimeras complicated the indentification of remains of the last Tsars family. I forget whether it was the living relative or Tsar who was chimeric. One athlete in a doping scandal tried to complain he was a chimera and that threw off results, etc. This could complicate some some court cases, more likely the safer false-negatives than false-positives.
Im under the impression that chimeras are most feasible in the womb and infants before the immune system has a strong sense of self-identity. But adults may not be impossible either through intentional or accidental stem cell transplant.
The flip-case is auto-immune where the immune system attacks its host body. Possibly some of these case may be one half of chimera attacking the other.
My kid is going to be the next "Tiger Woods" of the gaming world. He's going win hundreds of thousands of dollars before hes ten years old.
My faith in humanity is shaken! :-)
They could not find an anticipated ether-drag. Their result nicely dove-tailed with special relativity. However Einstein started from first principles and not their result.
Perhaps the gravity result suggests a replacement for general relativity.
I see people lost in their iPods, cellphones, laptops, ignoring each other in public spaces. Its amusing how they ignore each other and sometimes trip over another.
Farming, manufacturing has waste and other write-offs. What kind of percentages are wee talking about for various industries? 5%? 10%?
and you'll find them.
The great thing about NASA is they now release raw photos on the web within days. The ESA only releases occasional publicity photos from its Mars and Venus orbitors. They have a one-year embargo so the scientists can publish results first. That was NASA's policy too a long time ago. ESA might be doing interesting stuff, but nobody's going to hear about it.
Raw photos arent the best for scientific study. They have to have shape and lighting/color distortion corrected, and composited into larger photos or animations. NASA releases corrected photos a few months later.