When there is a financial crunch, its often the new material acquistions that are cut. (I usually prefer the "new" shelves and notice this.) Anomyomity could make theft easier.
On the other hand they could institute a stricter "one-strike" policy for anonymous cards. That one be a single overdue or fine temporarily disables the card. Currently, libraries are little more generous than this because it cuts administrative costs and soothes customers.
One thing I've wondered is whether exercise staves off senility, or is it just that non-senile people are more able to exercise. Both would result in the same correlation as this study, but the latter would not mean a causal relationship.
I've seen similar questions about elderly running and arthritis. Does running stave off arthritis, or is it merely people with good joints are able to run when older.
I liked how the Jedi Council would conduct virtual meetings across distant planets. There would be real people and holographic members. You'd need some near instanteous communication system to operate across the light years.
I did see some prototypes of this at SIGGRAPH where you use CAVES (a room with 3 or 4 television walls) mixing real and television people. Small TV screen arent as effective.
Scientist are known for beating data to death,
especially if little new data is coming in.
An article in Nature this week shows a study
where 23% of the refereed papers are partially
to totally recycled (self-plagarism).
I remember a "top 100" coming out for the 100th anniversary of the first commercial films in 1895, another for the year 2000. There was even a TV special attached to the first.
The Voayager program is slated to be terminated by NASA because it costs $4.2 million a year (I am not sure why). Since it cruised Neptune 16 years ago, there has only been one data point of interest- the end of the Sun's influence. This region could be as wide as ten years of travel.
Since 1989 people have tried annodes, popping bubbles in liquids (sonoluminescene) and piezoelectric crystals with tritium. The third method gnerates neutrons in a repeatable fashion, a sign it is probably fusing the tritium. It does however, require more input energy than it produces. It may have apps as a controllable neutron source.
Some people were trying to line up for seats two days early at the best screen in the city. However the theatre was giving them queue numbers and shooing them away. The patrons were complaining about being denied the experience of waiting in line overnight for a chance to see Star Wars, since it is the last new Star Wars. The theater retorted that current technology makes lines unnecessary.
The plague is endemic in prarie dogs and
squirrels in places like Colorado and California.
A few times a year people may get it via a pet or direct outdoor recreation. It almost never passes between people these days.
They never showed current-time Earth in the first Star Trek series, but frequently did in the The NExt Generation. When you saw the Golden Gate Bridge, you knew you were at Star Fleet HQ or its Space Academy. Move IV about the whales show futuristic S.F. too.
But now Paramaount has shelved the Star Trek franchise, Star Wars has taken over!
Scientific results are testable to see if they are correct or not. Until recently superstrings were so exotic, or had so many free parameters to fit any data, that they could neither be verified or discounted. Hopefully an experiment like this can test the hypothesis of superstrings.
I have a friend who is diabetic and needs to prick blood 4-8 times a day to monitor oneself. It would be nice automate this. I can think of a host of other monitors that would helpful too. Perhaps we can lessen the danger of artificial energy sources int he the body with their danagerous metalic salts or radioactive specks or failures.
I see the "peacock effect" continuing- that is enhancing physical traits that seem sexually attractive amongst us, but with otherwise no survival advantage. Right now we use technology to do this, but may breed or insert this into our genomes. Probably in the last ten thousand years we bred for large breasts and penises, because we have clothing technology now and lessened new to to run after wild animals for dinner. I wouldn't be surprised if we didnt breed for skinny, tan women with huge knockers and fat lips. The long term evolutionary view held chubby girls were fit and fertile. We would also breed guys with muscular chests, never graying-balding pates, and large slongs. The Bushman-type hunter with the skinny runner's build was the long term norm.
Capacity to everything well will come soon enough. Its just there will be some things you want to with pocket-size form-factor, and other things with a clip-board size.
Say something against the Linux-Mind-Control-Ideology,
even if a bit funny, and people
mod you into oblivion.
People used accuse MicrSofties
of this narrow-mindedness not too long ago.
Too bad people with the most negative opinions
post as cowards.
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When there is a financial crunch, its often the new material acquistions that are cut. (I usually prefer the "new" shelves and notice this.) Anomyomity could make theft easier.
On the other hand they could institute a stricter "one-strike" policy for anonymous cards. That one be a single overdue or fine temporarily disables the card. Currently, libraries are little more generous than this because it cuts administrative costs and soothes customers.
On the shopping side you get the dating sites.
On the information side you get the encyclopedia entries.
The commissions on lower-price goods arent as attractive to salesmen.
Targeted selling to everyone, everwhere, all the time.
Why romantanticize the exploits of people with the emotional age around five years?
Most bodies are pretty average or downright boring. It would be about exciting as a locker room or beach.
One thing I've wondered is whether exercise staves off senility, or is it just that non-senile people are more able to exercise. Both would result in the same correlation as this study, but the latter would not mean a causal relationship.
I've seen similar questions about elderly running and arthritis. Does running stave off arthritis, or is it merely people with good joints are able to run when older.
I liked how the Jedi Council would conduct virtual meetings across distant planets. There would be real people and holographic members. You'd need some near instanteous communication system to operate across the light years.
I did see some prototypes of this at SIGGRAPH where you use CAVES (a room with 3 or 4 television walls) mixing real and television people. Small TV screen arent as effective.
Scientist are known for beating data to death, especially if little new data is coming in. An article in Nature this week shows a study where 23% of the refereed papers are partially to totally recycled (self-plagarism).
I remember a "top 100" coming out for the 100th anniversary of the first commercial films in 1895, another for the year 2000. There was even a TV special attached to the first.
Commodity flash is about $50 a GB.
Commodity disk is $0.50 a GB.
(Both these are ridiculously cheap compared to a few years ago.)
The Voayager program is slated to be terminated by NASA because it costs $4.2 million a year (I am not sure why). Since it cruised Neptune 16 years ago, there has only been one data point of interest- the end of the Sun's influence. This region could be as wide as ten years of travel.
If you want to read the whole work, you pay for a copy. Google has protections against reading "the next four pages" and so on.
Since 1989 people have tried annodes, popping bubbles in liquids (sonoluminescene) and piezoelectric crystals with tritium. The third method gnerates neutrons in a repeatable fashion, a sign it is probably fusing the tritium. It does however, require more input energy than it produces. It may have apps as a controllable neutron source.
Loose, heavy stuff on structures can fall and injure even in a mild quake. You need to attach the alumninum siding well.
Some people were trying to line up for seats two days early at the best screen in the city. However the theatre was giving them queue numbers and shooing them away. The patrons were complaining about being denied the experience of waiting in line overnight for a chance to see Star Wars, since it is the last new Star Wars. The theater retorted that current technology makes lines unnecessary.
China has five times the overall population as the US. Both have middle classes of about 200 million. Its a minority in China, but majority in USA.
The plague is endemic in prarie dogs and squirrels in places like Colorado and California. A few times a year people may get it via a pet or direct outdoor recreation. It almost never passes between people these days.
They never showed current-time Earth in the first Star Trek series, but frequently did in the The NExt Generation. When you saw the Golden Gate Bridge, you knew you were at Star Fleet HQ or its Space Academy. Move IV about the whales show futuristic S.F. too.
But now Paramaount has shelved the Star Trek franchise, Star Wars has taken over!
Scientific results are testable to see if they are correct or not. Until recently superstrings were so exotic, or had so many free parameters to fit any data, that they could neither be verified or discounted. Hopefully an experiment like this can test the hypothesis of superstrings.
I have a friend who is diabetic and needs to prick blood 4-8 times a day to monitor oneself. It would be nice automate this. I can think of a host of other monitors that would helpful too. Perhaps we can lessen the danger of artificial energy sources int he the body with their danagerous metalic salts or radioactive specks or failures.
I see the "peacock effect" continuing- that is enhancing physical traits that seem sexually attractive amongst us, but with otherwise no survival advantage. Right now we use technology to do this, but may breed or insert this into our genomes. Probably in the last ten thousand years we bred for large breasts and penises, because we have clothing technology now and lessened new to to run after wild animals for dinner. I wouldn't be surprised if we didnt breed for skinny, tan women with huge knockers and fat lips. The long term evolutionary view held chubby girls were fit and fertile. We would also breed guys with muscular chests, never graying-balding pates, and large slongs. The Bushman-type hunter with the skinny runner's build was the long term norm.
Buffet passed him last month.
Price of MSFT has gone nowhere in years.
Capacity to everything well will come soon enough. Its just there will be some things you want to with pocket-size form-factor, and other things with a clip-board size.
Say something against the Linux-Mind-Control-Ideology, even if a bit funny, and people mod you into oblivion. People used accuse MicrSofties of this narrow-mindedness not too long ago. Too bad people with the most negative opinions post as cowards.