We could probably collect as many cellphone and internet messages as we want, but there arent enough people to sift through them.
Several terrorists in Colorado Supermax prisons sent over a hundred unread Arabic letters overseas because they have just one part time guy reading them down there. Quite a scandal there.
The Chinese have a similar time table, but arent pushing it too fast. They have a manned launch every 2-3 years, two so far. The US space program averaged about three per year during the sixties race and shuttle heyday.
The reason I heard is that the Chinese central R&D program is not very large. Their space program falls under the military.
In 2006 all US stations are supposed to be broadcasting digital and in 2009 end analog broadcasts. I notice the low-end TVs at Walmart and Target are $600 for wide monitor with built-in receiver. Perhaps lower with Thanksgiving teaser.
I dont watch TV that much so really havent been worried too much about this issue.
Some of the Mars rover software couldnt handle four digit dates, having been designed for 90 days. But the rovers were designed to be reprogrammable and have been updated over a dozen times. Rover Spirit turned 1000 Sols October 25 during solar conjunction (Mars behind the Sun). It becomes radio-visible at the end of this week and is expected to still be working, but in winter-slowdown mode.
Seems to be a vicious extension of the clique mentality at the junior to senior high level. Some bad people post web gossip about other people. Female victims are criticised for appearance and friends. Guys are often called fags.
The nominal operation life was 90 days.
Its now over a thousand.
NASA often decides to kill projects when the cost exceeds the benefits and not when the spacecraft stops working. The next rover lands May 2008, so that could be the cutoff.
There would be a five year gap between the projected death of Hubble and the operation of the the New Space Telescope. And we know how Murphey's law complicates the situation.
Kind of retarded for not notiing their have been 40 PhDs in space already as astronauts or shuttle specialists. Plus three of the private astronauts made their fortunes in the computer industry.
Ever read one of those novels written by a large number people? They tend to be poor and uneven. A creative effort needs a strong leader. I'm guessing the same will be true for a collaborative movie.
Many tests for life look for chemical disequilibriums in soil or the atmosphere. The hypothesis is life will cause disequilibriums. One example is that ethane and oxygen together is unstable, since solar energy will eventually cause methane to combine with oxygen to make more stable water and carbon dioxide.
The oxygen disequiblrium found in the Viking soils was attributed to peroxide in the soil caused by UV bombardment. This didnt rule out life, but provided a non-biotic alternative explanation.
A recently discovered disequilibrium is methane emissions from the Martian surface. Life is one of the hypothesis. Again it is ambiguious, because there are abiotic possibilities too.
Since the creater/owner of the video has the copyright,
the uploader should sign they created the video,
else they, and not the "common carrier" Google be subject
to penalty. Its pretty hard to be totally anonymous to
Google. They log every transaction and can probably cross-search
them to find out who you are.
Intel has tried to integrate specialized I/O on their chips more than once, a nd so have other companies. Then they end up with something neither best in either and become commercial failures.
Sun, SGI, DEC and IBM were disappointed in off-the-shelf CPU chips. Sun switched from Motorola to in-house SPARC. SGI bought MIPs to control CPU development. DEC had the most respected chip in the business. Apple used IBMs design. None of these enterprises were considered great commercial successes. Most of the survivors use Intel or AMD now. The big guys can come up with new versions each year or so and catch up to the "boutique" designs.
Bacteria have been found in deep drill holes
nearly everywhere they've been *carefully* looked for. (Because they are everywhere, the collectors have to be very careful about contamination.) These may have been seperated from conventional surface sources of food for hundreds of millions of years.
Unfoirtuantely GeoCities is a TYPICAL example what could happen to semi-promising software when it is taken over by a greedy third party then trashes it. Manyof Yahoos and MSFTs acquisitions degenerated than way.
You need electronic for efficiency and convenient interface; the second for security and recounts. Theres nothing that says the hardcopy cant have a good GUI: it could print only the selection in large type, so the voter could easily verify. The restrictions on the original ballot- all choices presented equally- dont have to apply there.
GeoCities was like MySpace in the late 1990s- the trendy place to put a web page. When Yahoo bought it not much happend afterwards except more ads. Did they charge users then?
In 1992 Dr. Frabricant ranted about slights from his collegues at Concordia university in sci.research.careers, before killing some of them. Usenet people thought this was another typical usenet flame war until the murder story appeared in the regular news. They we were horrified.
A proposal about human speciation may be more believable to a country that has had a class system. America has financial classes, but for the most part they are very fluid (e.g. new dot.com zillionaires). British scifi authors like H.G. Wells and A. Huxley have written novels about human species. You see less of this by American scifi authors.
I do concede the British class system has mostly disappeared by the 21st century. It is mostly titles and schools, and not much about money and priveledge any more.
For every new type of scam criminals conceive of for crime, the computer is also the means to capture the criminal. We see this is in the case of plagarism. We are seeing this now for predators in social networks.
I love these little educational essays illustrated with video. Since we are such a visual generation when you count TV, movies, and games, I suspect educational material will be revolutionized by embedded video. Video gives life to the still media of text. Hypertext splits monolithic video streams into interactive chucks (better than DVDs). I suspect we are going to see some very creative essays and artworks in this new media soon.
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And thats away from from the coasts where a buck goes further. Plus its still lots of fun after many years.
But was not accepted. This time it was.
We could probably collect as many cellphone and internet messages as we want, but there arent enough people to sift through them.
Several terrorists in Colorado Supermax prisons sent over a hundred unread Arabic letters overseas because they have just one part time guy reading them down there. Quite a scandal there.
What is the dividing line between a large flare explosion and small nova explosion?
The Chinese have a similar time table, but arent pushing it too fast. They have a manned launch every 2-3 years, two so far. The US space program averaged about three per year during the sixties race and shuttle heyday.
The reason I heard is that the Chinese central R&D program is not very large. Their space program falls under the military.
In 2006 all US stations are supposed to be broadcasting digital and in 2009 end analog broadcasts. I notice the low-end TVs at Walmart and Target are $600 for wide monitor with built-in receiver. Perhaps lower with Thanksgiving teaser.
I dont watch TV that much so really havent been worried too much about this issue.
Can stand up and sit and lay down. Not bad for a cheap robot toy.
Some of the Mars rover software couldnt handle four digit dates, having been designed for 90 days. But the rovers were designed to be reprogrammable and have been updated over a dozen times. Rover Spirit turned 1000 Sols October 25 during solar conjunction (Mars behind the Sun). It becomes radio-visible at the end of this week and is expected to still be working, but in winter-slowdown mode.
Seems to be a vicious extension of the clique mentality at the junior to senior high level. Some bad people post web gossip about other people. Female victims are criticised for appearance and friends. Guys are often called fags.
The nominal operation life was 90 days. Its now over a thousand. NASA often decides to kill projects when the cost exceeds the benefits and not when the spacecraft stops working. The next rover lands May 2008, so that could be the cutoff.
There would be a five year gap between the projected death of Hubble and the operation of the the New Space Telescope. And we know how Murphey's law complicates the situation.
Kind of retarded for not notiing their have been 40 PhDs in space already as astronauts or shuttle specialists. Plus three of the private astronauts made their fortunes in the computer industry.
Ever read one of those novels written by a large number people?
They tend to be poor and uneven. A creative effort needs a strong leader. I'm guessing the same will be true for a collaborative movie.
Many tests for life look for chemical disequilibriums in soil or the atmosphere. The hypothesis is life will cause disequilibriums. One example is that ethane and oxygen together is unstable, since solar energy will eventually cause methane to combine with oxygen to make more stable water and carbon dioxide.
The oxygen disequiblrium found in the Viking soils was attributed to peroxide in the soil caused by UV bombardment. This didnt rule out life, but provided a non-biotic alternative explanation.
A recently discovered disequilibrium is methane emissions from the Martian surface. Life is one of the hypothesis. Again it is ambiguious, because there are abiotic possibilities too.
Since the creater/owner of the video has the copyright, the uploader should sign they created the video, else they, and not the "common carrier" Google be subject to penalty. Its pretty hard to be totally anonymous to Google. They log every transaction and can probably cross-search them to find out who you are.
Intel has tried to integrate specialized I/O on their chips more than once, a nd so have other companies. Then they end up with something neither best in either and become commercial failures.
Sun, SGI, DEC and IBM were disappointed in off-the-shelf CPU chips. Sun switched from Motorola to in-house SPARC. SGI bought MIPs to control CPU development. DEC had the most respected chip in the business. Apple used IBMs design. None of these enterprises were considered great commercial successes. Most of the survivors use Intel or AMD now. The big guys can come up with new versions each year or so and catch up to the "boutique" designs.
Bacteria have been found in deep drill holes nearly everywhere they've been *carefully* looked for. (Because they are everywhere, the collectors have to be very careful about contamination.) These may have been seperated from conventional surface sources of food for hundreds of millions of years.
Unfoirtuantely GeoCities is a TYPICAL example what could happen to semi-promising software when it is taken over by a greedy third party then trashes it. Manyof Yahoos and MSFTs acquisitions degenerated than way.
You need electronic for efficiency and convenient interface; the second for security and recounts. Theres nothing that says the hardcopy cant have a good GUI: it could print only the selection in large type, so the voter could easily verify. The restrictions on the original ballot- all choices presented equally- dont have to apply there.
GeoCities was like MySpace in the late 1990s- the trendy place to put a web page. When Yahoo bought it not much happend afterwards except more ads. Did they charge users then?
In 1992 Dr. Frabricant ranted about slights from his collegues at Concordia university in sci.research.careers, before killing some of them. Usenet people thought this was another typical usenet flame war until the murder story appeared in the regular news. They we were horrified.
A proposal about human speciation may be more believable to a country that has had a class system. America has financial classes, but for the most part they are very fluid (e.g. new dot.com zillionaires). British scifi authors like H.G. Wells and A. Huxley have written novels about human species. You see less of this by American scifi authors.
I do concede the British class system has mostly disappeared by the 21st century. It is mostly titles and schools, and not much about money and priveledge any more.
For every new type of scam criminals conceive of for crime, the computer is also the means to capture the criminal. We see this is in the case of plagarism. We are seeing this now for predators in social networks.
I love these little educational essays illustrated with video. Since we are such a visual generation when you count TV, movies, and games, I suspect educational material will be revolutionized by embedded video. Video gives life to the still media of text. Hypertext splits monolithic video streams into interactive chucks (better than DVDs). I suspect we are going to see some very creative essays and artworks in this new media soon.