Ozzie was preserved pretty well frozen too, but is only 5000 some years old, slightly older than the oldest desert mummies. Maybe global warming will reveal a human who fell into a crevice and froze to death tens of thousands of years ago. One of side-effects of global warming.
Our software company management decided to become very rigorous about software security standards, and so are many of our customers which are Fortune 100 companies. It feels like you are in communist country where nearly anything can be a "state secret". Our software has lots of dependencies on third party libraries, open source, and GPLs which is a landmine here. For example theres a fear terrorists might steal the encryption code in the license manager to send unbreakable messages, etc. Or that competitors will discover a legal flaw in code and sue to block it.
It is very amusing the governement cant even come close to what it imposes on private industry in terms of protection.
And do agree its valuable to be fully aware whats in your code.
According to a PBS special, the dangerous carcinogens are creating in two places in the current smoking cycle: curing the tobacco and burning it in a cigarette. Safer ways of curing are known, but not as efficient or fragrant. And if you "steam" tobacco rather than burn it you get all the nicotine and flaver and much fewer carcinogens. Cigarette companies experimented with such devices, but they are awkward.
There were lots of promising anti-HIV and anti-virals that were promising in the petri dish, but failed in clinical application. Hope this one is a clinical success.
I read in "Skin" that in every location women are fractionally paler (measured istrumentally) than males. The thought is the extra vitamin D needs of pregnancy. The book then conjectures (unproven) this may lead to sexual preference.
OK they've synthesized a couple of the 30K+ chemicals in a cell, albeit one of the more complicated and important. But I dont conisder true synthtic life and the final refutation of "vitalism" until all the chemicals are synthesized.
Vitalism contends there is some important constitute to life outside of known chemistry and physics. Some "neo-vitalists" claim life can only come from existing life, or some pattern thereof. Others claim mysterious new phsice like quantum microtubes, etc.
I loved what multi-touch does for iPhone multi-media management. But the most difficult thing on the iPhone is typing text. This is less of an issue when the display reaches six inches or so.
They had two working one in 1970s. One went 11 km and the other 37 km. Opportunity just passed the first one. Lunar driving was remote control because the time-dleay feedback was about two seconds. Mars is 40 to 90 minutes.
Too many buck-chasing doctors and drug companies inventing the latest and greatest diseases. In some causes they are legitimate such as rare DNA mutations that cause slow and debilitating conditions. In other cases I'm amused becaue my social awkwardness and technical genius now classifies me as low-grade Aspegers-autism. They now say one perecent of people have this conidtions so they can raise lots of charity money.
Me: six months from now when the bugs are worked out.
I guess since the sale starts at 6PM, maybe first thing in the morning.
Its supposed to be easier to get one from a Cingular store, but more classy to buy it form an Apple store.
Google should focus on a core business, and not be a piggy-bank for new-age hobbies. Almost every company goes through financial bottlenecks sooner or later.
The space station has quasi-ecological isolation.
Although they get re-supplied almost every month and have the option of immediate escape.
Ecological isolation didnt quite work in Biosphere II (soon to become condos). It was hard to keep the atmosphere in balance and grow enough food. Most participants lost 1/4 to 1/3 of weight.
I have a number of acquaintances who've gone this route: stay officially poor, take advantge of free medicare, disability, supplemental social security; maybe some hidden income on the side, gifts from relatives. Its possible to have decent life. Sometimes people feel trpped in this rut. Often theres some rationalization: "it free and its there", "the gov'ment screwed me or some relation and I getting my dues", etc. Some of these acquaintences were AIDs patients or illegal immigrants, some from middle class Anglo families. I usually have mixed feelings: sometimes resentment, other times "for the grace god goes I", etc.
I've been tracking premium plus out-of-pocket since 1990s and they've average 14% increase per year. If they dont increase the premium a lot in a year, then they raise the deductable or co-pay percentage. Extrapolating into the future to medicare age, the amount is like the "grains of rice on the chessboard" - astronomical. Medicare isnt so great either, its costs are increasing rapidly too.
Reminds of an ancient TV cigarette commercial where their cigarettes were 2.55 inches long compared to industry standard 2.54 inches - "just a silly little millimeter longer": Benson & Hedges 101s.
That made it difficult study its amounts and behavior until newer techniques were invented. DNA is practically eternal compared to RNA.
NASA uses 30-year old UNIX derivative
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Many of NASA computers on spacecraft use a long-tested version of realtime UNIX called VxWorks from Charles River. It doesnt nexcessarily have the fancy stuff in modern *nix's, but is fairly reliable. Even that has been known to fail. The flash memory driver in the Martian Rovers had a bad free-list routine which shut them down for several weeks near the beginning of their mission after the flash memory filled up. A fix was uploaded. Flash memory was relatively new and hadnt been tested as much as the rest of the system.
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Ozzie was preserved pretty well frozen too, but is only 5000 some years old, slightly older than the oldest desert mummies. Maybe global warming will reveal a human who fell into a crevice and froze to death tens of thousands of years ago. One of side-effects of global warming.
Our software company management decided to become very rigorous about software security standards, and so are many of our customers which are Fortune 100 companies. It feels like you are in communist country where nearly anything can be a "state secret". Our software has lots of dependencies on third party libraries, open source, and GPLs which is a landmine here. For example theres a fear terrorists might steal the encryption code in the license manager to send unbreakable messages, etc. Or that competitors will discover a legal flaw in code and sue to block it.
It is very amusing the governement cant even come close to what it imposes on private industry in terms of protection.
And do agree its valuable to be fully aware whats in your code.
According to a PBS special, the dangerous carcinogens are creating in two places in the current smoking cycle: curing the tobacco and burning it in a cigarette. Safer ways of curing are known, but not as efficient or fragrant. And if you "steam" tobacco rather than burn it you get all the nicotine and flaver and much fewer carcinogens. Cigarette companies experimented with such devices, but they are awkward.
There were lots of promising anti-HIV and anti-virals that were promising in the petri dish, but failed in clinical application. Hope this one is a clinical success.
I read in "Skin" that in every location women are fractionally paler (measured istrumentally) than males. The thought is the extra vitamin D needs of pregnancy. The book then conjectures (unproven) this may lead to sexual preference.
New meaning to elimintating waste
Out for four days and no ones put Linux on it yet?
(I believe OS is some version of Apple UNIX.)
OK they've synthesized a couple of the 30K+ chemicals in a cell, albeit one of the more complicated and important. But I dont conisder true synthtic life and the final refutation of "vitalism" until all the chemicals are synthesized.
Vitalism contends there is some important constitute to life outside of known chemistry and physics. Some "neo-vitalists" claim life can only come from existing life, or some pattern thereof. Others claim mysterious new phsice like quantum microtubes, etc.
I loved what multi-touch does for iPhone multi-media management. But the most difficult thing on the iPhone is typing text. This is less of an issue when the display reaches six inches or so.
They had two working one in 1970s. One went 11 km and the other 37 km. Opportunity just passed the first one. Lunar driving was remote control because the time-dleay feedback was about two seconds. Mars is 40 to 90 minutes.
Obligatory post.
We got to open this sucker up.
Probably borrowed some money from relatives in his down years and never fully paid back.
Probably not the greenest computer.
Too many buck-chasing doctors and drug companies inventing the latest and greatest diseases. In some causes they are legitimate such as rare DNA mutations that cause slow and debilitating conditions. In other cases I'm amused becaue my social awkwardness and technical genius now classifies me as low-grade Aspegers-autism. They now say one perecent of people have this conidtions so they can raise lots of charity money.
Me: six months from now when the bugs are worked out.
I guess since the sale starts at 6PM, maybe first thing in the morning. Its supposed to be easier to get one from a Cingular store, but more classy to buy it form an Apple store.
Google should focus on a core business, and not be a piggy-bank for new-age hobbies. Almost every company goes through financial bottlenecks sooner or later.
The space station has quasi-ecological isolation. Although they get re-supplied almost every month and have the option of immediate escape.
Ecological isolation didnt quite work in Biosphere II (soon to become condos). It was hard to keep the atmosphere in balance and grow enough food. Most participants lost 1/4 to 1/3 of weight.
I have a number of acquaintances who've gone this route: stay officially poor, take advantge of free medicare, disability, supplemental social security; maybe some hidden income on the side, gifts from relatives. Its possible to have decent life. Sometimes people feel trpped in this rut. Often theres some rationalization: "it free and its there", "the gov'ment screwed me or some relation and I getting my dues", etc. Some of these acquaintences were AIDs patients or illegal immigrants, some from middle class Anglo families. I usually have mixed feelings: sometimes resentment, other times "for the grace god goes I", etc.
I've been tracking premium plus out-of-pocket since 1990s and they've average 14% increase per year. If they dont increase the premium a lot in a year, then they raise the deductable or co-pay percentage. Extrapolating into the future to medicare age, the amount is like the "grains of rice on the chessboard" - astronomical. Medicare isnt so great either, its costs are increasing rapidly too.
Reminds of an ancient TV cigarette commercial where their cigarettes were 2.55 inches long compared to industry standard 2.54 inches - "just a silly little millimeter longer": Benson & Hedges 101s.
A few pioneers like Jobs, Gates, and the YouTube guys have had second and third megahits. Im stil waiting for Tim's encore.
That made it difficult study its amounts and behavior until newer techniques were invented. DNA is practically eternal compared to RNA.
Many of NASA computers on spacecraft use a long-tested version of realtime UNIX called VxWorks from Charles River. It doesnt nexcessarily have the fancy stuff in modern *nix's, but is fairly reliable. Even that has been known to fail. The flash memory driver in the Martian Rovers had a bad free-list routine which shut them down for several weeks near the beginning of their mission after the flash memory filled up. A fix was uploaded. Flash memory was relatively new and hadnt been tested as much as the rest of the system.
What so special about htis one, other than being six or seven years behind the crowd and just as expensive?