The main benefit is keeping a pool of smart workers in a metro area to fuel new tech businesses. No one wants to start a high tech business in Cleveland or Detroit because the workforce is emigrating. How do you factor this into the economics?
I was at an MIT reunion last year. Most of my acquaintances were earning income off of software activities, though none of them had majored in computer science. This included a philosopher, linguist, a geologist, a mechanical engineer, and a biologist.
P.S. This was a boomer generation. The rules may have changed for youngsters.
The rule has also been to buy the application that solve your problem, whether business adminstration or latest-greatest game, then the OS that can run it, and the hardware that can run that. If you go in the other order you risk ending up with an expensive useless toy.
If Moores Law were to continue at its same rate
for another 77 years, every atom in the universe
for 15 billion years could be simulated in a computer. Unikely.
Reminds of an Isaac Asimov short story from Nine Tommorrows called The Last Question. A computer grows to become the entire universe and finds out it is God.
Many businesses and the governement employed "warehouses" of clerks to process business paperwork like accounts receiveable and inurance claims. Some of this was computerized this fairly early on around the 1960s. However, I still suspect much medical insurance is still transcribed from paper forms- among the last holdouts. Jim Clark's Netscape successor Healtheon and a joint Congressional bill from B. First & H. Clinton are trying to modernize this.
lowered status of computer science for a while?
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I remember the early years of computer science as being a secretarial/trade school kind of thing. I remember MIT and Stanford faculty debates as to whether they should even offer an undergraduate major in computer science because it considered too "vocational". If you were a Stanford student in comp sci you got a "stealth degree" as a minor in the math department. At MIT they hid it in electrical engineering and STILL HAVENT granted it independent department status even though at the height of the computers science boom one third of undergraduates majored in this option. Even now MIT refuses to teach a practical introductory computer science course. Their first course has been based on LISP since the late 1960s and still uses the version called SCHEME.
Products like MicroSoft BASIC, VisiCalc, Napster, BitTorrent, etc. were made by one or two clever guys. I dont see that slowing down. It take imagination and sweat to invent the next great thing.
One common thread with Newton's researches was his search for numerical patterns in all kinds of things whether it was the motion of heavenly bodies, chemical reactions, or Biblical chronologies. In his day the division between "kosher scientific" and psuedo-science subjects was not yet distinct.
Newton was thought to have a mild case of autism called Aspegers. Many of these people are infatuated with numbers and patterns and music, e.g. the Rainmaker movie. whether the guy could do all sorts of "hard" calculations. These people also have difficulty in social situations, unable to read and deal with interpersonal emotion. Newton was an eccentric who had a hard time making any friends at all.
You have to remember that Newton was
almost a founding member of the first scientific
society (The Royal Philosophical Society) and
first scientific journal (its letters and minutes).
It was innovative that a bunch of scientists would read their results to each other, debate them, and reproduce or discredit them. In the past professionals could either be guild-like secretive or accept ideas without reproduceable proof.
So Newtown was on the cusp. He was tardy disseminating his ideas, some which never made it out of his private writings.
Decent language - a few things could be better.
However my company has been shipping production scientific software in JAVA in 21st century and making lots of money. It reduces the cost supporting different computer platfrms and has good GUI tools compared to C++ based products.
"Any two observers moving at constant speed and direction with respect to one another will obtain the same results for all mechanical experiments."
Galileo was trying to explain why its difficult to tell the earth is moving: when everything moves in unison its like relatively no motion at all. Thats why we dont have thousand mile winds at the equation, the soup doesnt pool to the east in its bowl, etc. The other image Galileo used was things and activities inside a moving ship.
Einstein amplified this to objects moving rapidly to one another with the assumption there is a maximum constant velocity.
Most fusion reactions generate surplus neutrons which have to go someone. The wall materials of fusion reactors will gradually turn radioactive. The slight advantage is that these radioactive substances tend to have shorter half-lives than U/Pu fission products. Fusion waste will have to be shielded and displosed of like fission waste.
When they started building fission nuclear plants
in the 1950s, it was said that energy would be nearly unlimited and nearly free. Lots costs overlooked then and overlooked now for fusion.
Several people have referred to the Gutenberg archive of non-copyright books. Before OCR, a book-lover had to laboriously type in a volume.
OCR still has errors which much corrected.
Often an individual will "adopt" a favorite book like community in Fahrenheit-451.
The advantage that trains currently dont have security check was rudely shaken by last years 3-11 bombing in Spain. Its just that the countries with high speed trains haven't been high priority targets yet.
This article is bogus. There is so much paperwork
and verification in most states, that this kind of fraud is not possible on a massive scale. Plus no proff it occurs in the article.
In the old days people used run travel competitions based on "clues", "locations", and "items". These days you can replace the old tools of instruction sheets, maps, and phone calls with GPS, and text-messaging.
Most developers use High Level Languages such as Java and C++. A good compiler will hide most of the CPU details. I hope Apple optimizes the machine code in its firmware. But even so, 2005 CPUs are ten thousand times faster than those used in the original Macs and this may not be as important.
This is the first year the minimum computer speed exceeds a teraflop. Perhaps we sho now define a sumpercomputer as ten sustained teraflops because nineteen have this speed on LINPACK.
To put this debate in perspective, you compare both to MSN. There is no contest in content or corporate culture with MSN coming out the loser in all facets.
I stunned my immigrant co-workers, especially the Asian ones, telling them that I had work to pay much of my education, and some of these were menial jobs. The feel its required to pay for a kid's education through graduate school. I heard that only about a quarter of suburban teenagers do traditional summer jobs, half of used to do so 20 years ago. I just read a column on how neighborhood kids dont cut lawns anymore (their or for pay).
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The main benefit is keeping a pool of smart workers in a metro area to fuel new tech businesses. No one wants to start a high tech business in Cleveland or Detroit because the workforce is emigrating. How do you factor this into the economics?
I was at an MIT reunion last year. Most of my acquaintances were earning income off of software activities, though none of them had majored in computer science. This included a philosopher, linguist, a geologist, a mechanical engineer, and a biologist.
P.S. This was a boomer generation. The rules may have changed for youngsters.
The rule has also been to buy the application that solve your problem, whether business adminstration or latest-greatest game, then the OS that can run it, and the hardware that can run that. If you go in the other order you risk ending up with an expensive useless toy.
If Moores Law were to continue at its same rate for another 77 years, every atom in the universe for 15 billion years could be simulated in a computer. Unikely.
Reminds of an Isaac Asimov short story from Nine Tommorrows called The Last Question. A computer grows to become the entire universe and finds out it is God.
Many businesses and the governement employed "warehouses" of clerks to process business paperwork like accounts receiveable and inurance claims. Some of this was computerized this fairly early on around the 1960s. However, I still suspect much medical insurance is still transcribed from paper forms- among the last holdouts. Jim Clark's Netscape successor Healtheon and a joint Congressional bill from B. First & H. Clinton are trying to modernize this.
I remember the early years of computer science as being a secretarial/trade school kind of thing. I remember MIT and Stanford faculty debates as to whether they should even offer an undergraduate major in computer science because it considered too "vocational". If you were a Stanford student in comp sci you got a "stealth degree" as a minor in the math department. At MIT they hid it in electrical engineering and STILL HAVENT granted it independent department status even though at the height of the computers science boom one third of undergraduates majored in this option. Even now MIT refuses to teach a practical introductory computer science course. Their first course has been based on LISP since the late 1960s and still uses the version called SCHEME.
I remember a chapter on human computers in Feyman's autobigraphic essays Surely You arent Joking .
Wikipeadia mentions this too in Feynman's bio.
ABC news ran a piece about a sunscreen nat yeat approved by the FDA.
Products like MicroSoft BASIC, VisiCalc, Napster, BitTorrent, etc. were made by one or two clever guys. I dont see that slowing down. It take imagination and sweat to invent the next great thing.
One common thread with Newton's researches was his search for numerical patterns in all kinds of things whether it was the motion of heavenly bodies, chemical reactions, or Biblical chronologies. In his day the division between "kosher scientific" and psuedo-science subjects was not yet distinct.
Newton was thought to have a mild case of autism called Aspegers. Many of these people are infatuated with numbers and patterns and music, e.g. the Rainmaker movie. whether the guy could do all sorts of "hard" calculations. These people also have difficulty in social situations, unable to read and deal with interpersonal emotion. Newton was an eccentric who had a hard time making any friends at all.
You have to remember that Newton was almost a founding member of the first scientific society (The Royal Philosophical Society) and first scientific journal (its letters and minutes). It was innovative that a bunch of scientists would read their results to each other, debate them, and reproduce or discredit them. In the past professionals could either be guild-like secretive or accept ideas without reproduceable proof.
So Newtown was on the cusp. He was tardy disseminating his ideas, some which never made it out of his private writings.
Decent language - a few things could be better. However my company has been shipping production scientific software in JAVA in 21st century and making lots of money. It reduces the cost supporting different computer platfrms and has good GUI tools compared to C++ based products.
"Any two observers moving at constant speed and direction with respect to one another will obtain the same results for all mechanical experiments."
Galileo was trying to explain why its difficult to tell the earth is moving: when everything moves in unison its like relatively no motion at all. Thats why we dont have thousand mile winds at the equation, the soup doesnt pool to the east in its bowl, etc. The other image Galileo used was things and activities inside a moving ship.
Einstein amplified this to objects moving rapidly to one another with the assumption there is a maximum constant velocity.
In past year:
GOOG up 200% 96 -> 292
MSFT up 0% 28 -> 25 + 3.4 dividend
Most fusion reactions generate surplus neutrons which have to go someone. The wall materials of fusion reactors will gradually turn radioactive. The slight advantage is that these radioactive substances tend to have shorter half-lives than U/Pu fission products. Fusion waste will have to be shielded and displosed of like fission waste.
When they started building fission nuclear plants in the 1950s, it was said that energy would be nearly unlimited and nearly free. Lots costs overlooked then and overlooked now for fusion.
Several people have referred to the Gutenberg archive of non-copyright books. Before OCR, a book-lover had to laboriously type in a volume. OCR still has errors which much corrected. Often an individual will "adopt" a favorite book like community in Fahrenheit-451.
The advantage that trains currently dont have security check was rudely shaken by last years 3-11 bombing in Spain. Its just that the countries with high speed trains haven't been high priority targets yet.
This article is bogus. There is so much paperwork and verification in most states, that this kind of fraud is not possible on a massive scale. Plus no proff it occurs in the article.
In the old days people used run travel competitions based on "clues", "locations", and "items". These days you can replace the old tools of instruction sheets, maps, and phone calls with GPS, and text-messaging.
Most developers use High Level Languages such as Java and C++. A good compiler will hide most of the CPU details. I hope Apple optimizes the machine code in its firmware. But even so, 2005 CPUs are ten thousand times faster than those used in the original Macs and this may not be as important.
This is the first year the minimum computer speed exceeds a teraflop. Perhaps we sho now define a sumpercomputer as ten sustained teraflops because nineteen have this speed on LINPACK.
It had a high reputation in the 1960s that Arthur C. Clarke sited HAL's invention there.
To put this debate in perspective, you compare both to MSN. There is no contest in content or corporate culture with MSN coming out the loser in all facets.
I stunned my immigrant co-workers, especially the Asian ones, telling them that I had work to pay much of my education, and some of these were menial jobs. The feel its required to pay for a kid's education through graduate school. I heard that only about a quarter of suburban teenagers do traditional summer jobs, half of used to do so 20 years ago. I just read a column on how neighborhood kids dont cut lawns anymore (their or for pay).