TVLand is showing four episodes tonight starting a 8PM:
Man Trap (the first broadcasted )
City on the Edge of Forever
Trouble with Tribbles
Platos Stepchildren
I think these are ones with new digital F/X, but not sure.
The scene in Star Wars IV where Hans Solo's ship sputters when he trys to take it to light speed reminds me of NASA's three stooges attempts. Too bad NASA lacks a "Chewie" who can punch the right bulkhead and get things running again.
One of the major initiatives of the Gates Foundation has been improving high schools in difficult regions. Their first attempt was to fund smaller schools, where it was thought students could manage better. This had not succeeded
so they are trying other things now.
"Dark matter": an invisible attractive force operating on galaxy-level distances (at million light years). Size: about 23% of the energy-mass of the observed universe. Evidence: Galaxies spinning faster than the number of visible stars justify. Gravitational lenses stronger than visible stars justify. Suspects: known low mass particles like neutrinos; unknown low or high mass particles like strings, wimps; a new phsyical force; non-r-squared term in Newton's equation of gravitation, observational error...
"Dark energy": an invisible repulsive force operating on universe-size distances (at billion light years). Size: about 73% of the energy-mass of the observed universe. Evidence: Hubble expansion is accelerating over time when gravity would suggest eventual deceleration or collapse. Suspects: energy in fabric of space-time, unknown force, observational error...
"Observed matter": stars, galaxies, gas clouds, neutrinos; Size: about 4% of the energy-mass of the universe.
With SGI dropping MIPS and Apple dropping Motorola/IBM theres little diversity outside the Intel/AMD x86 world. Even Intel strangled itself introducing costly-to-develop non-x86 chips. Early custom super computing companies like CRAY, Convex etc have long since perished (The CRAY name still exists, ironically starved under its SGI ownership).
I find a bit of irony that a member of the Ansari family who contributed many of the millions for the contest to stimuate private space travel is jumping the gun and taking a conventional space flight. I cannot fault her for this. She's generously given millions already. At her age she is in her prime for space travel. If she had to wait 10 to 30 years for private orbital travel to become a reality, she may be too old to safely make the trip.
Something like an encyclopedia can tolerate a certain uneveness among multiple authors because individual essays stand alone and are not that long. A course-book needs more coherence provided by an small number number of authors and an overseeing architect.
But who wants to do this one-by-one when google will aggregate the world's data? Once you find something in google you might compare google's price ($3) with alternatives.
One of the first things I do is look myself up. I have a fairly rare name. As far as I can two other people inthe world share it, plus only a couple hundred share the share the surname.
Most of the material I saw was legal notices such as marriages, deaths and court judgements.
Using class pop-quizzes as a significant part of grade insures
attaendance and alertness. My thesis adviser was particularly brutal with this technique, but we learned the material better.
Recent technology such as multiple-choice "clickers" in classrooms furthers this techique with immediate feedback to the professor
of his overall effect and individual learning.
If I see a new word in text, I hypothesize its meaning from its context rather than lookup its meaning. However, recently dictionary lookup been easier when reading online with Google Define:
available.
This usually only works in languages I know fairly well. If there are two or three unknown terms in a paragraph I'll have less success in understanding them.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but it seems like whenever Dean's company is about to introduce a new product, they start a PR campaign. Just before the Segway came out is was the "super secret revolutionary invention to change the world". People speculated its was something medical because that was Dean's forte. He did end up productionizing his stable wheels chair technology into a personal walking machine- the Segway. Plus Dean made his round of the TV news magazines and talk shows.
I am not sure if Dean over-hyped the Segway leading to disappointing sales. I hope he continues to invent interesting and useful products. The PR campaigns can remain entertainment.
I've heard of people registering phoney deeds in my state. I dont know how common it is. Plus I dont know how much a of a fake paper trail you need to appear as a sale.
I read somewhere the auto repair companies were bemoaing a shortage of auto repair techs. This is something you cant offshore. Cars are becoming so computerized that techs need a high school diplpoma and more often some community college work.
The mass layoff law says that companies must give 60 days notice if there are more than 50 people laid off at a time at one site. This is so workers and communities could try to adapt.
This doesnt stop my company from having frequent layoffs of 40 or so:-(
In the current calendar, the shuttle will finish in 2010 and
Orion not start regular flights until 2014. The shuttle could last longer if NASA regains confidence, but Orion too might slip too. I guess we'll have to depend on Soyeuz and Protons (large, unmanned)
to service ISS during the gap?
Some astronomers want a definition suitable for other solar systems too. There are about 216 planets now- 8 main solar ones, 8 solar dwarf planets, and 200 oribiting other suns.
Other solar systems are more concerned about the uppers sizes of planets, which they can detect now. At 100 Jupiter masses it might be fusing as brown dwarf star.
In the 1960s US moon launches took three days to reach the moon.
The New Horizon space probe launched toward Pluto last January took only 14 hours to cross the moon's orbit. It has to go fast to reach Pluto in nine years (lifetime of electronics and investigator careers).
The SMART probe uses very efficient propulson, but took three years.
Some truck drivers have driven further (268K miles) in that time.
Ever since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995 and the White House in 2001, NASA, Commerce/NOAA, Interior/USGS, EPA have large annual cuts proposed in their budgets for environmental projects. Much of this gets restored in the give-and-take when the budget is finally passed. Its appears to a combination of conservative opinions (1) theres too much environmental restriction, (2) too much restrictions on federal land, and (3) the governemnt should directly perform research and development.
NASA had this nice proposal in the 1990s for a couple dozen satellites to study earth called Mission to Planet Earth. NASA would basically send up the same instruments it sent to Mars and Venus and Saturn and some other useful ones. But most of these satellites never constructed. So irronically we know more about the surfaces of other planets than we do about portions of the Earth. Deep cuts in NOAA almost backfired when a weather satellite went out prematurely. Please the cuts leak into more essential R&D such as hurricane forecasting.
Funny, I'm listening to Dr. Waston's 50th anniversary book of the double helix (2003) CDBook this month.
The human genome betting pool paid off at 23,299 genes in 2004, though some people suspect a few more. Most sequenced mammals appear to have about 3 billion base pairs and 25K genes. The highest animal number I heard was the puffer fish at 39K genes. The record appears the amoeba dubia at 670 billion base pairs.
Mammalian gene storage and expression is more complicated than bacteria. Dr. Watson said the typical gene is divided into eight segments (exons) with some approaching 30. Plus these may code for multiple proteins. Some biochemical stores sell DNA genes with the introns removed (cDNA). These are made from RNA templates found cells and turned back into continginuous DNA. There are about twice as many cDNAs for a mouse than there are genomes.
Slashdot Mirror
Only a member or alumnus of the institution can see more than picture and name. Otherwise you have to be given permission by the person.
He didnt get the ring of power until his resurection in the LOTR. Cirdan the shipwright had it before then.
I recall getting mono-color polyester long sleeve shirts in 1967, just like the ones on Star Trek.
Come to think of it, when I would wear the red(*) one, the kids at school would beat me up.
(*)Inside joke. Ordinary crewmen wore red shirts. You knew if they beamed done to the planet with the officers, the red-shirt guy got killed.
TVLand is showing four episodes tonight starting a 8PM:
Man Trap (the first broadcasted )
City on the Edge of Forever
Trouble with Tribbles
Platos Stepchildren
I think these are ones with new digital F/X, but not sure.
The scene in Star Wars IV where Hans Solo's ship sputters when he trys to take it to light speed reminds me of NASA's three stooges attempts. Too bad NASA lacks a "Chewie" who can punch the right bulkhead and get things running again.
One of the major initiatives of the Gates Foundation has been improving high schools in difficult regions. Their first attempt was to fund smaller schools, where it was thought students could manage better. This had not succeeded so they are trying other things now.
"Dark matter": an invisible attractive force operating on galaxy-level distances (at million light years). Size: about 23% of the energy-mass of the observed universe. Evidence: Galaxies spinning faster than the number of visible stars justify. Gravitational lenses stronger than visible stars justify. Suspects: known low mass particles like neutrinos; unknown low or high mass particles like strings, wimps; a new phsyical force; non-r-squared term in Newton's equation of gravitation, observational error ...
...
"Dark energy": an invisible repulsive force operating on universe-size distances (at billion light years). Size: about 73% of the energy-mass of the observed universe. Evidence: Hubble expansion is accelerating over time when gravity would suggest eventual deceleration or collapse. Suspects: energy in fabric of space-time, unknown force, observational error
"Observed matter": stars, galaxies, gas clouds, neutrinos; Size: about 4% of the energy-mass of the universe.
With SGI dropping MIPS and Apple dropping Motorola/IBM theres little diversity outside the Intel/AMD x86 world. Even Intel strangled itself introducing costly-to-develop non-x86 chips. Early custom super computing companies like CRAY, Convex etc have long since perished (The CRAY name still exists, ironically starved under its SGI ownership).
I find a bit of irony that a member of the Ansari family who contributed many of the millions for the contest to stimuate private space travel is jumping the gun and taking a conventional space flight. I cannot fault her for this. She's generously given millions already. At her age she is in her prime for space travel. If she had to wait 10 to 30 years for private orbital travel to become a reality, she may be too old to safely make the trip.
Something like an encyclopedia can tolerate a certain uneveness among multiple authors because individual essays stand alone and are not that long. A course-book needs more coherence provided by an small number number of authors and an overseeing architect.
But who wants to do this one-by-one when google will aggregate the world's data? Once you find something in google you might compare google's price ($3) with alternatives.
One of the first things I do is look myself up. I have a fairly rare name. As far as I can two other people inthe world share it, plus only a couple hundred share the share the surname.
Most of the material I saw was legal notices such as marriages, deaths and court judgements.
Using class pop-quizzes as a significant part of grade insures attaendance and alertness. My thesis adviser was particularly brutal with this technique, but we learned the material better.
Recent technology such as multiple-choice "clickers" in classrooms furthers this techique with immediate feedback to the professor of his overall effect and individual learning.
If I see a new word in text, I hypothesize its meaning from its context rather than lookup its meaning. However, recently dictionary lookup been easier when reading online with Google Define: available.
This usually only works in languages I know fairly well. If there are two or three unknown terms in a paragraph I'll have less success in understanding them.
I'm not trying to be a troll here, but it seems like whenever Dean's company is about to introduce a new product, they start a PR campaign. Just before the Segway came out is was the "super secret revolutionary invention to change the world". People speculated its was something medical because that was Dean's forte. He did end up productionizing his stable wheels chair technology into a personal walking machine- the Segway. Plus Dean made his round of the TV news magazines and talk shows.
I am not sure if Dean over-hyped the Segway leading to disappointing sales. I hope he continues to invent interesting and useful products. The PR campaigns can remain entertainment.
Take three years to get there, then crash it :-)
I've heard of people registering phoney deeds in my state. I dont know how common it is. Plus I dont know how much a of a fake paper trail you need to appear as a sale.
I read somewhere the auto repair companies were bemoaing a shortage of auto repair techs. This is something you cant offshore. Cars are becoming so computerized that techs need a high school diplpoma and more often some community college work.
The mass layoff law says that companies must give 60 days notice if there are more than 50 people laid off at a time at one site. This is so workers and communities could try to adapt.
:-(
This doesnt stop my company from having frequent layoffs of 40 or so
In the current calendar, the shuttle will finish in 2010 and Orion not start regular flights until 2014. The shuttle could last longer if NASA regains confidence, but Orion too might slip too. I guess we'll have to depend on Soyeuz and Protons (large, unmanned) to service ISS during the gap?
Some astronomers want a definition suitable for other solar systems too. There are about 216 planets now- 8 main solar ones, 8 solar dwarf planets, and 200 oribiting other suns.
Other solar systems are more concerned about the uppers sizes of planets, which they can detect now. At 100 Jupiter masses it might be fusing as brown dwarf star.
In the 1960s US moon launches took three days to reach the moon. The New Horizon space probe launched toward Pluto last January took only 14 hours to cross the moon's orbit. It has to go fast to reach Pluto in nine years (lifetime of electronics and investigator careers). The SMART probe uses very efficient propulson, but took three years. Some truck drivers have driven further (268K miles) in that time.
Are these things durable? That is, do stray static charges or magnetic fields clobber them at all?
Ever since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995 and the White House in 2001, NASA, Commerce/NOAA, Interior/USGS, EPA have large annual cuts proposed in their budgets for environmental projects. Much of this gets restored in the give-and-take when the budget is finally passed. Its appears to a combination of conservative opinions (1) theres too much environmental restriction, (2) too much restrictions on federal land, and (3) the governemnt should directly perform research and development.
NASA had this nice proposal in the 1990s for a couple dozen satellites to study earth called Mission to Planet Earth. NASA would basically send up the same instruments it sent to Mars and Venus and Saturn and some other useful ones. But most of these satellites never constructed. So irronically we know more about the surfaces of other planets than we do about portions of the Earth. Deep cuts in NOAA almost backfired when a weather satellite went out prematurely. Please the cuts leak into more essential R&D such as hurricane forecasting.
Funny, I'm listening to Dr. Waston's 50th anniversary book of the double helix (2003) CDBook this month.
The human genome betting pool paid off at 23,299 genes in 2004, though some people suspect a few more. Most sequenced mammals appear to have about 3 billion base pairs and 25K genes. The highest animal number I heard was the puffer fish at 39K genes. The record appears the amoeba dubia at 670 billion base pairs.
Mammalian gene storage and expression is more complicated than bacteria. Dr. Watson said the typical gene is divided into eight segments (exons) with some approaching 30. Plus these may code for multiple proteins. Some biochemical stores sell DNA genes with the introns removed (cDNA). These are made from RNA templates found cells and turned back into continginuous DNA. There are about twice as many cDNAs for a mouse than there are genomes.