Even though the calculations were done in pre-computer days, a "Planet X" has been suspected due to anomalies in Neptune's orbit unexplained by the other three massive planets. Neptune itself was triumph of Newtonian mechanics having been predicted and discovered in a famous 19th century competition. Pluto is too small to be Planet X. Planet X might be a fifth massive planet. More recently, extensive sky survey projects have been discovering Kuiper belt objects similar to Pluto. There could be dozens of Pluto size objects.
In Google News and Groups I get suggestions: you should read this...
Often it refers to accesses in other sections of google, rather than
than the section I am reading now. I guesss it does this with gmail too,
though I dont use that part.
I've read several of the pop-biographies. The last one called the "Second Coming" was about the recapture of Apple after being exiled to NeXT & Pixar by the board. Plus his revived the Mac line and had the iPod hit.
He had three major hits, more that more entrepeneurs can manage. These include the Apple II, Mac/Laser printer combo, and the iPod. Plus more than three stinkers along the way. Perhaps Gates may be entitled to five hits- PC-BASIC, industry-wide DOS, Windows, Office, and possibly the Xbox (jury not in). [ It often takes MicroSOft the 3rd or 4th version to be useful. ] Plus lots of duds too. I can recall a large number of hardware and software companies who had one great hit and could never invent a second one.
The "third coming" could be something melding multi-media, tying together iPods, Pixar and Disney. That is if Steve lives long enough.
He was treated for that and appeared to recover.
He supposed had one of the less common varieties
that did not spread too easily and could be
removed in an operation. The most common variety
has a low survival rate.
Theses a decent chance if live arose on solar system body first, it would probaly have infected the rest of life-supporting bodies over the eons. There have been thosands or more meteors from Mars and the Moon on Earth, most not yet discovered. The physics of reverse Earth to outer solar system isnt as good, but still possible .
It is starting to look like the 500 million years of the solar system history Mars could have more hospitable to life than earth. We all may be ultimately Martians!
In the mid-80s there was the university and military arpanets, the university bitnet, among others. One important milestone was adoption of name servers and the domain convention. Otherwise every computer periodically downloaded an/etc/hosts IP address translation file. It was reaching an unwielding 10,000 lines just before the name servers came online.
Another milestone was national funding of the internet backbone- dedication optical lines running cross-country. The telcoms and business customers were reluctant to pay for these until jump-started by the feds (Gore's information superhighway law). The government continues to fund new experimental, costly backbones between universities and national labs (so the kiddies can download warez in seconds?).
Up until five years ago there was a factor of two discrepancy- the Hubble constant using supernova candles gave a young age; globular cluster star ages appeared about 20 billion. The high resolution microwave background variance measurement agreed with the Hubble number, so that is currently the best hypothesis.
The rumor is petroleum was found. But since there was no peer review publication, who knows? Some people worry about petroleum contamination in the drilling fluids. Also is it commercial? And what of several other experiments? Perhaps one of these want-to-believe-myhts too good to be true.
Supposedly the US census locks up the actual data for 70 years, then releases it. Geneologists and other can use it then. The US aggregates the results in zip-code (single post-office) size chucks, but some people worry about the privacy of that.
NASA was generally planning to send some sort of Mars mission every 26-month optimum energy launch window. However planning and building a mission takes 3-4 of these cycles. So the lessons of current mission were too late to seriously affect a 2007 mission.
Most of these objects discovered by doppler shifts which only see heavy
and/or fast (close-in) objects. As more powerful techniques and instruments
come on line, we may see more solar-sytem-like objects then. And maybe not.
Since the crippled space station can support a maximum of three occupents at time, because NASA-Russia delayed funding for a crew module, the space station now becomes the universes most expensive hotel. No, because the station is so buggy, it takes two people fulltime to maintain it, so occupants are more like janitors.
I saw this software demoed at SIGGRAPH this week. I was impressive by the extremely simple user interface. It only has three basic commands, unlikes the dozens to hundreds I see on comparable medical-CAD software. The commands are rotate view, add a chuck here, delete a chuck here. There sophisticated segmentation technques mostly guess your intention right, i.e. do you want to display this bone or muscle, but you have to do some final adjustments.
The classic example is Meserism- a combination of magnetism and suggestion. That was a fad in 19th century and got Freud started in his career. Surprisingly this technique has never faded. Magnetic healing abounds at new age health fairs today.
Other magical new physics includes electricity, radiation, X-rays, quantum microtubes, earth magnetism (feng shui), and so on. Well-homed radiation has been useful for fighting tumors.
One of B5's strenghts and weaknesses is that Straczynski wrote most of the episodes. That allowed more continuity and long arcs. However that can hamper the series too. With multiple writes, some may be stronger in dialog or humor, or just inject fresh views on things.
Nature wouldn't evolve as system as wasterful as 2-3% useful DNA
(0.1% in some amoebas). The other stuff is doing something, either
rarely used or relatively transient.
Mandelbrot became famous for the visualizations of complexity/chaos of the fractal algorithms in his name. Mandelbrot was initially handicapped by a very immature computer graphics field in the 1970s- CRT pixel displays hadnt been invented yet beacuse memory cost too much. I recall his colleague Voss(?) at the time first rendered Mandelbrot diagrams on alphanumeric teletypes. A square array of characters was printed where the amount of blackness in each character would represent a pixel density. When Scientific American printed a column on Mandelbrot in 1979 they caused computer labs buy new, expensive graphics terminals ($30k) and paralyzed many a computer system.
In the petroleum business theres are these "secret deposit" scams going on. Some turn out to true, but most dont pan out. They are either poor science or schemes to bilk investors.
One going on for twenty years was the claim by the recently deceased Cornell professor Thomas Gold (and some Soviet Union geologists) that oil or natural gas comes from primordial methane deep in the earth from original earth accretion rather from buried plant decay like most convential geologists believe. That would predict the supply of oil could be nearly unlimited and it might in occur in many places where geologists dont look, e.g. granite instead of shale.
So every few years a "secret consortium" tries to drill in an unusual location and of course the results are not disclosed but "promising". The Swedish govermment was bilked about $60 million drilling into Swedish granite.
P.S. Actually another successful Gold prediction may explain why geologist keep on drilling. Gold predicted bacterial would be buried deep in rocks and most every
deep (> 5 miles) oil wells have found them. So every deep well is going to detect some methane bug waste, but not in large commercial quantities.
One of the more fantastic tools are the wattage graphs of human power output during the race.
A human adult at rest outputs about a half watt per pound.
Thats why they need to crank up air conditioning in auditoriums with the equivalent of an incandescent light in each chair.
A trained athlete can sustain 200 watts for hours and peak twice that for minutes bursts.
Given their are five things than have to work correctly for each self-transaction: scannable tag, correct price, correct weight, correct discount, correct clerk intervention- I had early error rates approaching about one per item. After a few years I'm happy if I can get through 10-20 itesm with one or two errors now.
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Even though the calculations were done in pre-computer days, a "Planet X" has been suspected due to anomalies in Neptune's orbit unexplained by the other three massive planets. Neptune itself was triumph of Newtonian mechanics having been predicted and discovered in a famous 19th century competition. Pluto is too small to be Planet X. Planet X might be a fifth massive planet. More recently, extensive sky survey projects have been discovering Kuiper belt objects similar to Pluto. There could be dozens of Pluto size objects.
In Google News and Groups I get suggestions: you should read this ...
Often it refers to accesses in other sections of google, rather than
than the section I am reading now. I guesss it does this with gmail too,
though I dont use that part.
The myst series was highbrow. No quick action or shortcuts.
I've read several of the pop-biographies. The last one called the "Second Coming" was about the recapture of Apple after being exiled to NeXT & Pixar by the board. Plus his revived the Mac line and had the iPod hit.
He had three major hits, more that more entrepeneurs can manage. These include the Apple II, Mac/Laser printer combo, and the iPod. Plus more than three stinkers along the way. Perhaps Gates may be entitled to five hits- PC-BASIC, industry-wide DOS, Windows, Office, and possibly the Xbox (jury not in). [ It often takes MicroSOft the 3rd or 4th version to be useful. ] Plus lots of duds too. I can recall a large number of hardware and software companies who had one great hit and could never invent a second one.
The "third coming" could be something melding multi-media, tying together iPods, Pixar and Disney. That is if Steve lives long enough.
He was treated for that and appeared to recover. He supposed had one of the less common varieties that did not spread too easily and could be removed in an operation. The most common variety has a low survival rate.
The p0rn suppliers seem to be on the leading eadge of technology.
Theses a decent chance if live arose on solar system body first, it would probaly have infected the rest of life-supporting bodies over the eons. There have been thosands or more meteors from Mars and the Moon on Earth, most not yet discovered. The physics of reverse Earth to outer solar system isnt as good, but still possible .
It is starting to look like the 500 million years of the solar system history Mars could have more hospitable to life than earth. We all may be ultimately Martians!
In the mid-80s there was the university and military arpanets, the university bitnet, among others. One important milestone was adoption of name servers and the domain convention. Otherwise every computer periodically downloaded an /etc/hosts IP address translation file. It was reaching an unwielding 10,000 lines just before the name servers came online.
Another milestone was national funding of the internet backbone- dedication optical lines running cross-country. The telcoms and business customers were reluctant to pay for these until jump-started by the feds (Gore's information superhighway law). The government continues to fund new experimental, costly backbones between universities and national labs (so the kiddies can download warez in seconds?).
Up until five years ago there was a factor of two discrepancy- the Hubble constant using supernova candles gave a young age; globular cluster star ages appeared about 20 billion. The high resolution microwave background variance measurement agreed with the Hubble number, so that is currently the best hypothesis.
The rumor is petroleum was found. But since there was no peer review publication, who knows? Some people worry about petroleum contamination in the drilling fluids. Also is it commercial? And what of several other experiments? Perhaps one of these want-to-believe-myhts too good to be true.
The US sent out 4-page form to 5/6ths and a 13-page form to 1/6. So it does both a full ennumeration (as the law requires) and a statistical esitmate.
Supposedly the US census locks up the actual data for 70 years, then releases it. Geneologists and other can use it then. The US aggregates the results in zip-code (single post-office) size chucks, but some people worry about the privacy of that.
NASA was generally planning to send some sort of Mars mission every 26-month optimum energy launch window. However planning and building a mission takes 3-4 of these cycles. So the lessons of current mission were too late to seriously affect a 2007 mission.
Most of these objects discovered by doppler shifts which only see heavy and/or fast (close-in) objects. As more powerful techniques and instruments come on line, we may see more solar-sytem-like objects then. And maybe not.
Since the crippled space station can support a maximum of three occupents at time, because NASA-Russia delayed funding for a crew module, the space station now becomes the universes most expensive hotel. No, because the station is so buggy, it takes two people fulltime to maintain it, so occupants are more like janitors.
I saw this software demoed at SIGGRAPH this week. I was impressive by the extremely simple user interface.
It only has three basic commands, unlikes the dozens to hundreds I see on comparable medical-CAD software.
The commands are rotate view, add a chuck here, delete a chuck here. There sophisticated segmentation technques
mostly guess your intention right, i.e. do you want to display this bone or muscle, but you have to do some final adjustments.
At the turn of the decade processor clock speed was growing every year. Now it has topped off.
The classic example is Meserism- a combination of magnetism and suggestion. That was a fad in 19th century and got Freud started in his career. Surprisingly this technique has never faded. Magnetic healing abounds at new age health fairs today.
Other magical new physics includes electricity, radiation, X-rays, quantum microtubes, earth magnetism (feng shui), and so on. Well-homed radiation has been useful for fighting tumors.
One of B5's strenghts and weaknesses is that Straczynski wrote most
of the episodes. That allowed more continuity and long arcs.
However that can hamper the series too. With multiple writes, some
may be stronger in dialog or humor, or just inject fresh views on things.
Nature wouldn't evolve as system as wasterful as 2-3% useful DNA (0.1% in some amoebas). The other stuff is doing something, either rarely used or relatively transient.
G'KAr had so much makeup on for his character, that you could probably easily replace him and not really tell.
Mandelbrot became famous for the visualizations of complexity/chaos of the fractal algorithms in his name. Mandelbrot was initially handicapped by a very immature computer graphics field in the 1970s- CRT pixel displays hadnt been invented yet beacuse memory cost too much. I recall his colleague Voss(?) at the time first rendered Mandelbrot diagrams on alphanumeric teletypes. A square array of characters was printed where the amount of blackness in each character would represent a pixel density. When Scientific American printed a column on Mandelbrot in 1979 they caused computer labs buy new, expensive graphics terminals ($30k) and paralyzed many a computer system.
In the petroleum business theres are these "secret deposit" scams going on. Some turn out to true, but most dont pan out. They are either poor science or schemes to bilk investors.
One going on for twenty years was the claim by the recently deceased Cornell professor Thomas Gold (and some Soviet Union geologists) that oil or natural gas comes from primordial methane deep in the earth from original earth accretion rather from buried plant decay like most convential geologists believe. That would predict the supply of oil could be nearly unlimited and it might in occur in many places where geologists dont look, e.g. granite instead of shale.
So every few years a "secret consortium" tries to drill in an unusual location and of course the results are not disclosed but "promising". The Swedish govermment was bilked about $60 million drilling into Swedish granite.
P.S. Actually another successful Gold prediction may explain why geologist keep on drilling. Gold predicted bacterial would be buried deep in rocks and most every deep (> 5 miles) oil wells have found them. So every deep well is going to detect some methane bug waste, but not in large commercial quantities.
One of the more fantastic tools are the wattage graphs of human power output during the race. A human adult at rest outputs about a half watt per pound. Thats why they need to crank up air conditioning in auditoriums with the equivalent of an incandescent light in each chair. A trained athlete can sustain 200 watts for hours and peak twice that for minutes bursts.
Given their are five things than have to work correctly for each self-transaction: scannable tag, correct price, correct weight, correct discount, correct clerk intervention- I had early error rates approaching about one per item. After a few years I'm happy if I can get through 10-20 itesm with one or two errors now.