I reverse engineer everthing. I've dissambled TVs, radios, computers, ICs (designed them too), cellphones, computer programs, file formats, whatever. Being superficially familar with technology for any age group doesnt cut it. That is the nature of true technical nerdness.
(1) Park in free light rail parking [ Broadway station, Alameda station ] and light rail takes you one block from ballet theater [ convention center stop ].
(2) Park on east side of downtown. Baseball and football stadiums are are the west and north. (Yes, the Sunday football game is the same time as the 4th world series game.). Take 16th street shuttle to near ballet theater. I used this method to hear Carl Bernstein presentation of his new book four blocks from when the final pennent game was happening.
The ultimate decision wo disband depends on whether NASA can afford the cost of operation and space communications compared to the new results. I remember arguments to abandom Voayager, Magellan, and Galileo - each which triple beyond their plans but with decreasing returns. I presume 2008 Phoenix Lander and 2009 Large Rover may pressure NASA to cut the current two rovers.
Specifying base pair sequences is still as much as a crap shoot as conventional background mutations - people really dont understand how changing an amino acid here and there changes biological function. Im guess the main uses is taking somethign with know function and tweeking it, or importing a protein wholesale from elsewhere.
I attended the Stanford Linear Acceleration Homebrew Computer Club in the 1970s where the two Steve's introduced their Apple I computer. Imaging putting a keyboard and monitor on a computer - that takes all the fun out of doing it yourself:-)
There are still user/hobbyist computer clubs galore out there. At any given time one or two of them are of interest to me. Over the years I've attended the Mac Users Group, Amiga, NeXT, Game Designers, local SIGGRAPH chapters, and Java.
Airlines have found they not reached the limits of annoying passengers yet. Hobbit-size seats, stuffy air, trip-long fasting, long bathroom lines were not enough. Bring on the cell phones!
I've been watching for good tvs below $1000 for the "2009 rush".
Walmart has models where they attach a cheap receiver to standard computer monitors. Models below $600 dont look that great, but they exist in that price range.
The oldest anatomically modern fossils were found in South African caves. But no evidence of mesolithic culture was found with that. Its thought you need language to make clothes, use boats, and art. The oldest hints of those are about 60k, but controversial.
That is 50 to 500 teraflops in 2007.
Everything else is a "last generation" supercomputer and marketing noise.
My cell phone is as fast and has as much memory as a 1970s Cray supercomputer (60 MFlops).
He'd quiz me on arithmetic problems when I was 5-8 years old.
When its fun, it seems easy.
the opposite is when you think something is hard, then it becomes hard.
By movie #4 the cast was in the groove; director Nimoy was in the groove.
This movie was both good scifi and funny.
Number ten was about a Picard-clone trying to take over the Romulan empire.
It was humorless. They put too much action into it. A car-chase scene in Star Trek - my God. They had all these 50-something actors fist-fighting and running all time, which was another joke. I only saw it once and never saw it on cable tv which are haunted by the first seven trek movies.
Every April the University of Colorado in Boulder convenes a week long World Affairs Conference with luminaries in science, arts, and politics conducting about 300 panels on all kinds of topics. Its free and some people actually plan their vacations to attend this. Seth has been for several years.
People joke about Al Gore creating the Internet. But it was his sponsorhip of the 1988(?) Information Superhighway Bill that changed computer networks from an academic toy into a world wide force. It encouraged several existing subnets to adopt national standards and financed a high speed backbone that universities, companies, and government could all share. Six years later the NSF Supercomputer Center freeware release of Mosaic jump-started the application software side of the Net. And the internet pretty much became self-financing and important economic engine.
I think the Internet has had a more profound effect on human affairs than climatic change so far. And Al was an important contributer to the former. But there arent Nobel prizes for legislation.
On Thursday science fiction and sociology novelist Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Literature. I'm please the Nobel committee finally recognize this genre.
On Friday Al Gore received the Nobel Peace prize for his decades of advocacy on global climate change. For the most part I think hes been fairly factual; occasionally overboard alarmist. Its a serious topic that needs some theatrics to capture people's attention.
I thought languages were moving in all directions - some simiflying grammar and becoming more analytical while others are becoming more grammatically complex. Biological evolution moves in both directions too- simplification and complexification. We usually just think of the complex organisms, but there has never been as many parasites (viruses, leeches, prions, etc) as there have been now too.
One direction current languages are moving toward is increasing vocabulary. They add terms to capture the more activities and things in modern society. Some of these are technical and only understood by sub-populations. Others synonyms with subtle nuances. English is rich in synonyms - the old german one, the french term, maybe a modern greco-latin term, etc.
Ok, we have a sense organ called the eye which allows us to see a female and decide to pursue her in order to "perpetuate the species". This sense organ can be faked out by showing a picture of an attractive girl, something p0rn-sellers know well.
So we have another sense organ that perceives the transcendent. And it can be faked out too by a some epilepsy or artificial EM stimulation. This doesnt negate the transcendent exists, or that the transcendent is important. Perhaps there is a reason the humans and perhaps other animals have a sense organ to perceive the transcendent.
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Even "developing" countries are wealthier than the US was in the 1960s, so many mroe should be able to afford space exploration.
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Is the Machine War finally at hand?
I reverse engineer everthing. I've dissambled TVs, radios, computers, ICs (designed them too), cellphones, computer programs, file formats, whatever. Being superficially familar with technology for any age group doesnt cut it. That is the nature of true technical nerdness.
(1) Park in free light rail parking [ Broadway station, Alameda station ] and light rail takes you one block from ballet theater [ convention center stop ].
(2) Park on east side of downtown. Baseball and football stadiums are are the west and north. (Yes, the Sunday football game is the same time as the 4th world series game.). Take 16th street shuttle to near ballet theater. I used this method to hear Carl Bernstein presentation of his new book four blocks from when the final pennent game was happening.
And we got warp drive!
The ultimate decision wo disband depends on whether NASA can afford the cost of operation and space communications compared to the new results. I remember arguments to abandom Voayager, Magellan, and Galileo - each which triple beyond their plans but with decreasing returns. I presume 2008 Phoenix Lander and 2009 Large Rover may pressure NASA to cut the current two rovers.
Specifying base pair sequences is still as much as a crap shoot as conventional background mutations - people really dont understand how changing an amino acid here and there changes biological function. Im guess the main uses is taking somethign with know function and tweeking it, or importing a protein wholesale from elsewhere.
I attended the Stanford Linear Acceleration Homebrew Computer Club in the 1970s where the two Steve's introduced their Apple I computer. Imaging putting a keyboard and monitor on a computer - that takes all the fun out of doing it yourself :-)
There are still user/hobbyist computer clubs galore out there. At any given time one or two of them are of interest to me. Over the years I've attended the Mac Users Group, Amiga, NeXT, Game Designers, local SIGGRAPH chapters, and Java.
Poker site owners claim the market will police integrity. If customers find own a site is crooked, they'll all depart another of many competing sites.
Only one out 10,000 credit card numbers is valid, so you kind of have to steal numbers rather than guess them.
We read about monthly incidents in the middle east. Hopefully the technology and its use will improve with experience.
Airlines have found they not reached the limits of annoying passengers yet. Hobbit-size seats, stuffy air, trip-long fasting, long bathroom lines were not enough. Bring on the cell phones!
I've been watching for good tvs below $1000 for the "2009 rush". Walmart has models where they attach a cheap receiver to standard computer monitors. Models below $600 dont look that great, but they exist in that price range.
The oldest anatomically modern fossils were found in South African caves. But no evidence of mesolithic culture was found with that. Its thought you need language to make clothes, use boats, and art. The oldest hints of those are about 60k, but controversial.
I think the record is around 400 teraflops, soon to reach a petaflop. So 40-50 teraflops is a super.
There were rumors the MacOS would someday have a Multi-touch GUI mode too. Then you could design for all three platforms. Anyone hear of a date?
That is 50 to 500 teraflops in 2007. Everything else is a "last generation" supercomputer and marketing noise. My cell phone is as fast and has as much memory as a 1970s Cray supercomputer (60 MFlops).
He'd quiz me on arithmetic problems when I was 5-8 years old. When its fun, it seems easy. the opposite is when you think something is hard, then it becomes hard.
Impressive high resolution!
By movie #4 the cast was in the groove; director Nimoy was in the groove. This movie was both good scifi and funny.
Number ten was about a Picard-clone trying to take over the Romulan empire. It was humorless. They put too much action into it. A car-chase scene in Star Trek - my God. They had all these 50-something actors fist-fighting and running all time, which was another joke. I only saw it once and never saw it on cable tv which are haunted by the first seven trek movies.
Every April the University of Colorado in Boulder convenes a week long World Affairs Conference with luminaries in science, arts, and politics conducting about 300 panels on all kinds of topics. Its free and some people actually plan their vacations to attend this. Seth has been for several years.
People joke about Al Gore creating the Internet. But it was his sponsorhip of the 1988(?) Information Superhighway Bill that changed computer networks from an academic toy into a world wide force. It encouraged several existing subnets to adopt national standards and financed a high speed backbone that universities, companies, and government could all share. Six years later the NSF Supercomputer Center freeware release of Mosaic jump-started the application software side of the Net. And the internet pretty much became self-financing and important economic engine.
I think the Internet has had a more profound effect on human affairs than climatic change so far. And Al was an important contributer to the former. But there arent Nobel prizes for legislation.
On Thursday science fiction and sociology novelist Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Literature. I'm please the Nobel committee finally recognize this genre.
On Friday Al Gore received the Nobel Peace prize for his decades of advocacy on global climate change. For the most part I think hes been fairly factual; occasionally overboard alarmist. Its a serious topic that needs some theatrics to capture people's attention.
(The title is just a troll to get attention.)
I thought languages were moving in all directions - some simiflying grammar and becoming more analytical while others are becoming more grammatically complex. Biological evolution moves in both directions too- simplification and complexification. We usually just think of the complex organisms, but there has never been as many parasites (viruses, leeches, prions, etc) as there have been now too.
One direction current languages are moving toward is increasing vocabulary. They add terms to capture the more activities and things in modern society. Some of these are technical and only understood by sub-populations. Others synonyms with subtle nuances. English is rich in synonyms - the old german one, the french term, maybe a modern greco-latin term, etc.
Ok, we have a sense organ called the eye which allows us to see a female and decide to pursue her in order to "perpetuate the species". This sense organ can be faked out by showing a picture of an attractive girl, something p0rn-sellers know well.
So we have another sense organ that perceives the transcendent. And it can be faked out too by a some epilepsy or artificial EM stimulation. This doesnt negate the transcendent exists, or that the transcendent is important. Perhaps there is a reason the humans and perhaps other animals have a sense organ to perceive the transcendent.
Even "developing" countries are wealthier than the US was in the 1960s, so many mroe should be able to afford space exploration.