I forget the novel, but was about mankind having to end its space program and be "trapped" on earth due to too much space junk.
Does nayone remember the name of this?
In 1996 Apple ostensibly acquired NeXT, but in reality it was the reverse. Jobs became a large shareholder again (he had sold all but one share after he was fired from Apple). The Jobs gang took back control from Apple.
Ten years later Jobs could effectively control Disney, if he thought it was worth his time.
I never read the growing blog sections of newspapers
because it is so poor. There is no editorial filter
on accuracy or quality of writing.
The few blogs I read are almost always professional writers
who comment on web pages as a sideline.
The new episode will be called "Brokeback Planet" after the awarding movie movie. Commander Sulu returns to Star Fleet HQ in San Francisco (some things dont change in three centuries) for his annual fling with an old classmate.
They've been trying automated detection of other kinds of cancer, particularly routine microscopic pathologies for years. They've tryed all kinds of pattern recognition algorithms, neural nets, etc.
Some goals are to reduce cost and increase reliability.
Theres a legal problem too. If the computer guesses wrong (omissions) who is to blame- the pathologist? the software vendor?
At best these will be flags, not determinations.
When the "computer as an appliance" becomes hidden behind an applied interface, then it ceases being called a computer. Ipods, cellphones, TiVo, etc. have more hardware and software than gneral computers more than 5-10 years ago. But the "computerness" is somewhat hidden in the appliance.
A British astrophysicist says apparent acceleration of universal expansion can be explained by add a slight elliptical warp to the geometry of space. Then too, some physicists like Einstein claim warps and accelerations are physcial equivalents. The presence of alternative matter and energy could be causing the warp.
(This astrophysicist keynoted the 2004 SIGGRAPH because his mathematics is widely used in computer graphics.)
I remember reading about Stanford grad student project doing this ten years ago and a winner of the National Science Fair doing this three or four years ago.
Academics in psychology seem to have run out of meaningful topics to pursue, so are concentrating on trivia now. I get particularly annoyed at how they are converting outliers of human behavior into diseases these days- e.g. shyness, energetic kids, etc.
Mac Office revenues may be small relative to MS-DOS.
But its still a huge market, its like stealing candy from a baby.
For the life of me I can understand the business logic of avoiding the even large Linus market. It seems to be illogical and emotional of "starve your enemy". Since both Mac and Linus are variants of UNIX, it shouldnt be too hard.
This idiot brags about doing something any script-kiddie could do.
Its usually best not get mired in revenge over soured old business relationships, but look forward to making money in new, clean work.
Also, in this extremely fluid industry you never know when you'll run into a previous business relationship as a boss, co-worker, supplier, customer, etc. Its best to leave with a reputation as smart, good guy, even if you got screwed.
I might use a Wiki reference for the "background history" section of article, not for the crucial facts.
I'd also accept Wiki sources for an elementary or high school paper if (1) they reassembled them into a new form, (2) add their own interpretation, and (3) wrote down all such web citations (its easy cut and paste a URL, kiddies!). This is basically what many bloggers do. A plagarizing bloggered is going to be ridiculed too.
On one hand computers are giving authors temptation to plagarize;
same search engines discover plagarism. Its not hard to plug in phrases from on-line Google News to find other news articles as copies.
I have not heard of systematic studies of professional plagarism among journalists. A group reported to the science magazine Nature a study of electronic academic journals. It was not a high amount, but not a zero amount. I recall it was like about a half-percent xeno-plagarism (copying anothers text) and three percent auto-plagarism (copy material from a previous paper by one of the same authors).
The current issue of IEEE Spectrum (the electrical engineers society news monthly) called flash hard drives one of the top ten worst ideas of 2006. First, they say the is over a hundred times higher- $45 / GB for flash versus $0.50 / GB for a commodity disk drive. (People estimate Apple is only paying $10-$20 / GB for nano-pods.) Second, bulk transfer speeds are several times slower for flash than disk. Third, flash can only be written about 100,000 times before it burns out, while disk can be written billions of times.
I am amused that the average US consumer cant do arithmetic worth sh*t.
I see this while in line in grocery stores and fast food places.
The clerk or scanner makes an error about one in ten or twenty times on average.
Randomly the errors cluster sometimes exceeding a couple dollars per transaction. Neither the customer or clerk notices this.
You dont need to make it as technically accurate as emotionally accurate. The movie Office Space was about some software developers with problems about their jobs and love lives.
Though they did banter around tech and biz jargon, it wasnt precisely accurate. However, their emotional travials were.
The gaming/animation degree majors at the better schools require some exposure to the liberal arts. In a game or animation you are telling a story , something humans have been doing around the evening campfire for tens of thousands of years. You depicting interesting characters, running them through plots, building and dissipating tension and so on. In an animation these are general frozen in one story line, where in a game these elements are manipulated by the player(s).
There's hundreds of years of techniques and examples for telling good stories in all sorts of media- novels, song lyrics, movies, etc. A good liberal arts program will teach you these techniques and expose you examples from different eras, cultures and media.
Formerly imperial countries like UK, France, Spain & Germany left colonies with good education in the imperial language. These are reservoirs of low-cost labor. There's a huge supply of English speaking colonnials.
There are several companies marketing a chip where each square reacts with a gene or a marker part (unique characteristic subsection) of DNA. These dont have have to be too large, since theres only 30K human genes and 120K useful markers. You figure out what subset of genes is present or active by looking a pixel image of this chip, where the intensity patterns become a "fingerprint". These are currently being used to see how various human tissues express genes, and if diseases leave genetic fingerprints. Criminal forensic genetic fingerprints are possible too.
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I forget the novel, but was about mankind having to end its space program and be "trapped" on earth due to too much space junk. Does nayone remember the name of this?
In 1996 Apple ostensibly acquired NeXT, but in reality it was the reverse. Jobs became a large shareholder again (he had sold all but one share after he was fired from Apple). The Jobs gang took back control from Apple.
Ten years later Jobs could effectively control Disney, if he thought it was worth his time.
I never read the growing blog sections of newspapers because it is so poor. There is no editorial filter on accuracy or quality of writing.
The few blogs I read are almost always professional writers who comment on web pages as a sideline.
11 km a second. Wow!
The new episode will be called "Brokeback Planet" after the awarding movie movie. Commander Sulu returns to Star Fleet HQ in San Francisco (some things dont change in three centuries) for his annual fling with an old classmate.
They've been trying automated detection of other kinds of cancer, particularly routine microscopic pathologies for years. They've tryed all kinds of pattern recognition algorithms, neural nets, etc. Some goals are to reduce cost and increase reliability.
Theres a legal problem too. If the computer guesses wrong (omissions) who is to blame- the pathologist? the software vendor? At best these will be flags, not determinations.
The Martian Rovers and Casini use scanning cameras to reduce weight and volume of optics. Works fine if things arent changing too fast.
GWB was sppoked by his daughters' spring break videos.
When the "computer as an appliance" becomes hidden behind an applied interface, then it ceases being called a computer. Ipods, cellphones, TiVo, etc. have more hardware and software than gneral computers more than 5-10 years ago. But the "computerness" is somewhat hidden in the appliance.
A British astrophysicist says apparent acceleration of universal expansion can be explained by add a slight elliptical warp to the geometry of space. Then too, some physicists like Einstein claim warps and accelerations are physcial equivalents. The presence of alternative matter and energy could be causing the warp.
(This astrophysicist keynoted the 2004 SIGGRAPH because his mathematics is widely used in computer graphics.)
I remember reading about Stanford grad student project doing this ten years ago and a winner of the National Science Fair doing this three or four years ago.
Academics in psychology seem to have run out of meaningful topics to pursue, so are concentrating on trivia now. I get particularly annoyed at how they are converting outliers of human behavior into diseases these days- e.g. shyness, energetic kids, etc.
Mac Office revenues may be small relative to MS-DOS. But its still a huge market, its like stealing candy from a baby.
For the life of me I can understand the business logic of avoiding the even large Linus market. It seems to be illogical and emotional of "starve your enemy". Since both Mac and Linus are variants of UNIX, it shouldnt be too hard.
This idiot brags about doing something any script-kiddie could do.
Its usually best not get mired in revenge over soured old business relationships, but look forward to making money in new, clean work.
Also, in this extremely fluid industry you never know when you'll run into a previous business relationship as a boss, co-worker, supplier, customer, etc. Its best to leave with a reputation as smart, good guy, even if you got screwed.
I might use a Wiki reference for the "background history" section of article, not for the crucial facts.
I'd also accept Wiki sources for an elementary or high school paper if (1) they reassembled them into a new form, (2) add their own interpretation, and (3) wrote down all such web citations (its easy cut and paste a URL, kiddies!). This is basically what many bloggers do. A plagarizing bloggered is going to be ridiculed too.
On one hand computers are giving authors temptation to plagarize; same search engines discover plagarism. Its not hard to plug in phrases from on-line Google News to find other news articles as copies.
I have not heard of systematic studies of professional plagarism among journalists. A group reported to the science magazine Nature a study of electronic academic journals. It was not a high amount, but not a zero amount. I recall it was like about a half-percent xeno-plagarism (copying anothers text) and three percent auto-plagarism (copy material from a previous paper by one of the same authors).
The current issue of IEEE Spectrum (the electrical engineers society news monthly) called flash hard drives one of the top ten worst ideas of 2006. First, they say the is over a hundred times higher- $45 / GB for flash versus $0.50 / GB for a commodity disk drive. (People estimate Apple is only paying $10-$20 / GB for nano-pods.) Second, bulk transfer speeds are several times slower for flash than disk. Third, flash can only be written about 100,000 times before it burns out, while disk can be written billions of times.
(DISCLAIMER- not necessarily my opinion.)
I am amused that the average US consumer cant do arithmetic worth sh*t. I see this while in line in grocery stores and fast food places. The clerk or scanner makes an error about one in ten or twenty times on average. Randomly the errors cluster sometimes exceeding a couple dollars per transaction. Neither the customer or clerk notices this.
You dont need to make it as technically accurate as emotionally accurate. The movie Office Space was about some software developers with problems about their jobs and love lives. Though they did banter around tech and biz jargon, it wasnt precisely accurate. However, their emotional travials were.
The gaming/animation degree majors at the better schools require some exposure to the liberal arts. In a game or animation you are telling a story , something humans have been doing around the evening campfire for tens of thousands of years. You depicting interesting characters, running them through plots, building and dissipating tension and so on. In an animation these are general frozen in one story line, where in a game these elements are manipulated by the player(s).
There's hundreds of years of techniques and examples for telling good stories in all sorts of media- novels, song lyrics, movies, etc. A good liberal arts program will teach you these techniques and expose you examples from different eras, cultures and media.
I have a compsci friend who is a fairly dilligent amateur astronomer. He gets to name them.
Formerly imperial countries like UK, France, Spain & Germany left colonies with good education in the imperial language. These are reservoirs of low-cost labor. There's a huge supply of English speaking colonnials.
There are several companies marketing a chip where each square reacts with a gene or a marker part (unique characteristic subsection) of DNA. These dont have have to be too large, since theres only 30K human genes and 120K useful markers. You figure out what subset of genes is present or active by looking a pixel image of this chip, where the intensity patterns become a "fingerprint". These are currently being used to see how various human tissues express genes, and if diseases leave genetic fingerprints. Criminal forensic genetic fingerprints are possible too.
I appreciate the hard work editors do in selecting and cleaning up submissions.
However it seems with large number of repeats that some editors dont closely follow what each other are putting on slashdot.
If can set up an office near a window, then you can look out the window frequently to rest your eyes.
(Probably not that workable at night.)