The highest gasoline prices in the USA are in Hawaii because it imports 100%.
Hawaii is the best location in the US to grow sugar cane because of its year round tropical climate. Currently sugar cane is the most efficent biofuel source- not corn, wood chips, palm oil, etc.- until these "magic microbes" come into production.
I heard an update from a Lookheed Martin engineer last week.
Orion is on schedule, a bit overweight within design tolerances.
This engineer will be doing a field test of the emergency escape system in 2008.
UK residents have been paying television fees since TV started. First, most of the original TV broadcast channels were governement run. Second, the population has grown up used to this.
P0rn DVD companies have rallied around this standard. I heard its competitor wont sell reproduction machines to the p0rn industry beacuse it wants to stay classy. I guess the competitor blu it, pardon the pun, and will wither away.
MSFT used to sell the Xenix version of UNIX in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It performed poorly because UNIX was too bulky for x86 CPUs of that era. At that time MSFT was mainly a languages company and toying around with the OS biz. We all know where that went. They transferred PC-UNIX rights to SCO around 1983.
I worked for a company once that had geothermal as a side business and am aware of its short comings:
(1) The ground reservoir require constant "care and attention". Drill holes block up from mineralized water gunk much like some parts of the country see inthere house water pipes. Circulation pressure is fickle. It cant drop if there are new cracks in the rocks. You have to pump or re-drill.
(2) There are waste products- generally highly mineralized water that no one else can use. Hawaii is avoided geothermal development for this reason.
(3) A "dry" field may require a consistent water source. The US West is short on water supplies.
(4) You can set off earthquakes when you pump fluids. Rocky Mountain flats is the classic example, but this has happened to a lessor degree in the Salton Sea, CA and Geysers, CA area, both in seismic areas.
Still the benefits may outweigh the drawbacks. No carbon pollution.
Oil field and coal methane development have similar drawbacks too.
I have some web pages from a dozen years ago reflected in the search archives and I suspect they'll be there as long as the net exists. Particularly since the cost of storage continues to drop dramactically and investors pay hundreds of billions of dolalrs to fund search companies.
Even Intel doesnt get it perfect in the fist chips.
Another considerationis they may have to emulate someone
elses API. Too much software out there to have a new one.
People have proposed send out rocket-robot-factories which would make more copies of themselves after arrival and so on. These would result in huge numbers of probes after sufficient number of generations, even if a generation took 100,000 years. Maybe they'd be in the sahpe of large balck rectangles. Or maybe they'd call themselves Omibus.
Thats the standard joke in all TV shows- where's the restroom?
The star trek shuttle look too small to have them.
But then do many scientific exploration vehicles of ours.
They make due with special bottle and bag technologies.
The las vegas hilton, which hosts the star trek experience museum and thrill ride, has several rooms in trek-noir. I recall a casino lobby, restaurant, walkway, holding room, elevator, and a couple restrooms.
I recall it was at the Mac users club at Stanford. He seemed to always be working on some project, but usually worked alone on them. Had a bit of grooming issue too, but thats not unusual in Silicon Valley.
I'm guessing for most S.V. people their biggest hit has been the value of house they have purchased decades ago.
I was in S.V. during the start of the P.C. era. There were dozens of companies competing for market share including some started in Stanford dorm rooms (Cromemco). Only a handful made it big. Ditto for every business fad up to online video today. How many YouTube runner ups and clones are there out there? How many will make a killing and be around in 20 years? How many will make their founders and employees multi-millionaires?
A Japanese Mars probe, originally timed to arrive with that of the NSA rovers and ESA Beagle limps through space. It ran out of fuel.
The Hayabusa asteroid probe probably landed on one and got a sample, failed on its return earth, schedued this summer. Bad computer programs and running out fuel is blamed.
Academic research in Japan is mostly on a shoestring budget, and I guess this is a result. I hope they keep on trying.
Seems to show up at full resolution in Google Maps. Of course, uch of the grounds can be seen from the ground anyway. So I guess goolg is not censoring US images. Plus its not like no one knows where this is.
Larry Summers proposed a new curriculum for Harvard undergraduates with at least one mandatory science course. They dont have to take even on e science or math course now. But I think that is on hold after his firing(*) (technically he was pushed aside to some high level professorship). Both Larry and I attended MIT (he was in my 8.012 section) where there are six(**) required math and science courses to graduate, even if you are a literature major. It is felt you cannot understand the modern world unless you know a bit of science.
(*) He wasn't fired for this reform, but for riling up the faculty in other ways. Shot off tongue too fast without always being "politically correct".
(**) A new plan raises this to seven, but with more flexibility than now. Some version of computer science becomes a required course.
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Some parts of Harvard such as the libraries call up one's picture as one enters. Harder to forge or distract the guards.
With the uncertainty principle, maybe its already computing or not computing for a while yet :-)
(Maybe exaggerating this princple. You cant resolve a measurement finer than a quantum.)
I havent used them yet, but I've them in the catalog. They basically expire in three weeks, but I'm not sure how they implement that.
The highest gasoline prices in the USA are in Hawaii because it imports 100%. Hawaii is the best location in the US to grow sugar cane because of its year round tropical climate. Currently sugar cane is the most efficent biofuel source- not corn, wood chips, palm oil, etc.- until these "magic microbes" come into production.
I heard an update from a Lookheed Martin engineer last week.
Orion is on schedule, a bit overweight within design tolerances.
This engineer will be doing a field test of the emergency escape system in 2008.
UK residents have been paying television fees since TV started. First, most of the original TV broadcast channels were governement run. Second, the population has grown up used to this.
Microsoft has an immense history of missing the boat, then copying, improving and selling a competitor's product to amke a fortune.
P0rn DVD companies have rallied around this standard. I heard its competitor wont sell reproduction machines to the p0rn industry beacuse it wants to stay classy. I guess the competitor blu it, pardon the pun, and will wither away.
MSFT used to sell the Xenix version of UNIX in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It performed poorly because UNIX was too bulky for x86 CPUs of that era. At that time MSFT was mainly a languages company and toying around with the OS biz. We all know where that went. They transferred PC-UNIX rights to SCO around 1983.
I worked for a company once that had geothermal as a side business and am aware of its short comings:
(1) The ground reservoir require constant "care and attention". Drill holes block up from mineralized water gunk much like some parts of the country see inthere house water pipes. Circulation pressure is fickle. It cant drop if there are new cracks in the rocks. You have to pump or re-drill.
(2) There are waste products- generally highly mineralized water that no one else can use. Hawaii is avoided geothermal development for this reason.
(3) A "dry" field may require a consistent water source. The US West is short on water supplies.
(4) You can set off earthquakes when you pump fluids. Rocky Mountain flats is the classic example, but this has happened to a lessor degree in the Salton Sea, CA and Geysers, CA area, both in seismic areas.
Still the benefits may outweigh the drawbacks. No carbon pollution.
Oil field and coal methane development have similar drawbacks too.
I have some web pages from a dozen years ago reflected in the search archives and I suspect they'll be there as long as the net exists. Particularly since the cost of storage continues to drop dramactically and investors pay hundreds of billions of dolalrs to fund search companies.
Even Intel doesnt get it perfect in the fist chips.
Another considerationis they may have to emulate someone elses API. Too much software out there to have a new one.
Hate to see the monthly payments on that car!
People have proposed send out rocket-robot-factories which would make more copies of themselves after arrival and so on. These would result in huge numbers of probes after sufficient number of generations, even if a generation took 100,000 years. Maybe they'd be in the sahpe of large balck rectangles. Or maybe they'd call themselves Omibus.
Thats the standard joke in all TV shows- where's the restroom? The star trek shuttle look too small to have them. But then do many scientific exploration vehicles of ours. They make due with special bottle and bag technologies.
I had a better experience.
But the star trek bathroom wierded me out.
Hey wait, thats Star Trek. At least not in the beginning of the movie franchise.
Else they are slower than Moore's Law in 18 month doublings.
The las vegas hilton, which hosts the star trek experience museum and thrill ride, has several rooms in trek-noir. I recall a casino lobby, restaurant, walkway, holding room, elevator, and a couple restrooms.
I recall it was at the Mac users club at Stanford. He seemed to always be working on some project, but usually worked alone on them. Had a bit of grooming issue too, but thats not unusual in Silicon Valley.
I'm guessing for most S.V. people their biggest hit has been the value of house they have purchased decades ago.
I was in S.V. during the start of the P.C. era. There were dozens of companies competing for market share including some started in Stanford dorm rooms (Cromemco). Only a handful made it big. Ditto for every business fad up to online video today. How many YouTube runner ups and clones are there out there? How many will make a killing and be around in 20 years? How many will make their founders and employees multi-millionaires?
First noted in marathon race deaths and summer football practices. These two sports now train coaches and players to prevent this.
A Japanese Mars probe, originally timed to arrive with that of the NSA rovers and ESA Beagle limps through space. It ran out of fuel.
The Hayabusa asteroid probe probably landed on one and got a sample, failed on its return earth, schedued this summer. Bad computer programs and running out fuel is blamed.
Academic research in Japan is mostly on a shoestring budget, and I guess this is a result. I hope they keep on trying.
Seems to show up at full resolution in Google Maps. Of course, uch of the grounds can be seen from the ground anyway. So I guess goolg is not censoring US images. Plus its not like no one knows where this is.
Larry Summers proposed a new curriculum for Harvard undergraduates with at least one mandatory science course. They dont have to take even on e science or math course now. But I think that is on hold after his firing(*) (technically he was pushed aside to some high level professorship). Both Larry and I attended MIT (he was in my 8.012 section) where there are six(**) required math and science courses to graduate, even if you are a literature major. It is felt you cannot understand the modern world unless you know a bit of science.
(*) He wasn't fired for this reform, but for riling up the faculty in other ways. Shot off tongue too fast without always being "politically correct".
(**) A new plan raises this to seven, but with more flexibility than now. Some version of computer science becomes a required course.