Peer-review in a "name" journal doesnt guarantee the bad and repetitive stuff doesnt get published, but certainly filters a lot of it. There are just too many secondary journals, conference abstracts, and websites to read more than a fraction of it.
George Bush says he never reads newspapers or watches news on TV because he has his aids prepare summaries for him. Now LinuxWorld will protect us from any anti-Linux opinions. Maybe Slashdot will follow suit too and ban anti-Linux stories and mod down anti-Linux opinions.
At first when I saw this headline on Matt Drudge, perhaps Speilberg was sad because the yet this was yet another cheesey episode in a long melodramatic series. However, the article says Steve was genuinely moved by the film.
Several projects at SIGGRAPH last year addressed the question of what you could do with a planar array of cameras. You could consider this the natural extrension of stereoscopy (two cameras) or a cost-effective approximation of real-time holography. Some of this research is motivated by that commodity digital cameras and real time digital image processing computers can be bought at low prices, and assembled like RAID disk arrays or cluster computers.
Applications of these arrays included several kinds of real-time 3D TV (without silly glasses). The Stanford group pushed "conformal imaging", that is a cube of image planes at various depths and all viewpoints. This has the effect of looking around corners and through keyholes: if there a path for light to get through, you can probably extract a complete image. This does involve some mathematical massaging of multiple-camera images. Cheap Graphical Processing Units (GPU) from game machines can be reprogrammed to process images in real-time.
I've read several articles about the Japanese designing robots for disabled people too. More have been about nurses for the elderly in a land where there are many old people and too few young who would do this menial work. Besides Japan seems to have a strong popular culture of robots too in entertainment and acceptibility.
In Colorado to collect unemployment you have to show that you applied for ten jobs in a two week period. Usually you just hand in a list of email addresses you mailed a resume to
IBM is not alone. The US oil industry is still cutting jobs , even though profits have been at record highs along with gasoline prices. The oil industry has been continuing a 25-year job-reduction trend mainly caused by compuer-aided productivity and the migration of oil prodution outside the US. A rational person might think that companies & investors would get even more profit if they employed more people to obtain more oil.
I've been amused that Google, Yahoo, and MicroSoft (and sometimes Apple) introduce the same feature within days or weeks of each other. More often than not, Google does so first, then Yahoo and finally the other too laggards. MicroSoft has gotten a little more savy in pre-announcing their capabality the same day Google ships, even if they take weeks tp deliver.
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I thought the most interesting part of the Fortune article was about Google's [ stealth ] business model. They are delivering many of apps that MicroSoft has been working on recently like email and photo organizers. However Google has been shipping them mostly for free and via the web [ browsers ]. You cut a lot of cost by not having to cut and ship a CD, then forcing the customer to load it and with subsequent patches. A real killer app, besides search, would be to offer something the Office suite via the web.
This business model is not a new idea. People been talking about this since browsers appeared. And things like news, music and e-commerce are pretty much all-web already. However, it appears that Google has taken this a step further.
Irronically MicroSoft has been pursuing this strategy from a different dirrection. Its been converting many of its apps into web-enable xml. Apps were to be distributed via.NET. However, MicroSoft has made much of this proprietary and excepts to "sell" this software.
All financial sites adjust for splits in their long
term price curves. You are very wrong.
On the other hand, these curves dont add back dividends. MicroSoft has paid out about 20% in dividends in the years, including [if not the largest] huge one last year. That divident was so large that they had to add asterisks to some national economic statistics: *include MicroSoft dividend payout.
There's the Lemmelson prize for inventors, the Fields medal for mathematics, the Japan prize for computer science. All these are near the mega-buck range and given out at most a couple people around the world a year.
These just dont have the media prestige of the Nobels. The media and prize mutually bolster each other. Also there is a ctitical mass of a couple hundred living recipients. The number is large enough to have influence, but not so large to be diluted.
Until the the late 1990s the price of MicroSoft stock doubled every two years. Then it reached a peak of arounf $60 in 2000 and has fallen by half since then.
Open source may be a "sunset" project this Silicon Valley branch of NASA because that site is to be
decimated and perhaps closed.
Ames mainly performs long term R&D in space and areonautical sciences. There is an opinion in the adminstration that the federal government should not be conducting R&D internally, but outsourcing it to universities, companies, and think tanks. This is pretty much the model in the biological sciences.
The sporadic winds were two-edge sword. For the first [earth] year Spirit panels were getting progressing dirty, to the point where power was down to 40%. Then the one day the dust was mostly blown off and the power doubled. The fact that a devil may have actually collided with a rover suggested to NASA that they might be common enough to actively search for them.
That would cause those 15,16 year old script kiddies to grow up quickly.
Also the military is so high-tech with remote reconaissance and robo-planes, that their expertise would be welcomed.
Not to mention a current shortage of US soldiers.
In my memory, the first Battlestar Galactica was inspired the first Star Wars movie. The models and robo-camera F/X, the action and cheesey characters are resembled Star Wars.
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Peer-review in a "name" journal doesnt guarantee the bad and repetitive stuff doesnt get published, but certainly filters a lot of it. There are just too many secondary journals, conference abstracts, and websites to read more than a fraction of it.
Their business strategy is to copy whatever Google or Apple do. ALmost the same as MicroSoft's strategy.
Or at least they start out spelling the same way.
Its not nice to fool Mother Nature.
George Bush says he never reads newspapers or watches news on TV because he has his aids prepare summaries for him. Now LinuxWorld will protect us from any anti-Linux opinions. Maybe Slashdot will follow suit too and ban anti-Linux stories and mod down anti-Linux opinions.
At first when I saw this headline on Matt Drudge, perhaps Speilberg was sad because the yet this was yet another cheesey episode in a long melodramatic series. However, the article says Steve was genuinely moved by the film.
Several projects at SIGGRAPH last year addressed the question of what you could do with a planar array of cameras. You could consider this the natural extrension of stereoscopy (two cameras) or a cost-effective approximation of real-time holography. Some of this research is motivated by that commodity digital cameras and real time digital image processing computers can be bought at low prices, and assembled like RAID disk arrays or cluster computers.
Applications of these arrays included several kinds of real-time 3D TV (without silly glasses). The Stanford group pushed "conformal imaging", that is a cube of image planes at various depths and all viewpoints. This has the effect of looking around corners and through keyholes: if there a path for light to get through, you can probably extract a complete image. This does involve some mathematical massaging of multiple-camera images. Cheap Graphical Processing Units (GPU) from game machines can be reprogrammed to process images in real-time.
Talking about reviews are pretty silly. I doubt even a bad review would stop any slashdotter from seeing this Star Wars finalee.
They seem to have a lot of trouble with their equipment, crashes and bent atennas and all that. Makes NASA look good- which doesnt say much.
I've read several articles about the Japanese designing robots for disabled people too. More have been about nurses for the elderly in a land where there are many old people and too few young who would do this menial work. Besides Japan seems to have a strong popular culture of robots too in entertainment and acceptibility.
In Colorado to collect unemployment you have to show that you applied for ten jobs in a two week period. Usually you just hand in a list of email addresses you mailed a resume to
IBM is not alone. The US oil industry is still cutting jobs , even though profits have been at record highs along with gasoline prices. The oil industry has been continuing a 25-year job-reduction trend mainly caused by compuer-aided productivity and the migration of oil prodution outside the US. A rational person might think that companies & investors would get even more profit if they employed more people to obtain more oil.
I've been amused that Google, Yahoo, and MicroSoft (and sometimes Apple) introduce the same feature within days or weeks of each other. More often than not, Google does so first, then Yahoo and finally the other too laggards. MicroSoft has gotten a little more savy in pre-announcing their capabality the same day Google ships, even if they take weeks tp deliver.
I thought the most interesting part of the Fortune article was about Google's [ stealth ] business model. They are delivering many of apps that MicroSoft has been working on recently like email and photo organizers. However Google has been shipping them mostly for free and via the web [ browsers ]. You cut a lot of cost by not having to cut and ship a CD, then forcing the customer to load it and with subsequent patches. A real killer app, besides search, would be to offer something the Office suite via the web.
.NET. However, MicroSoft has made much of this proprietary and excepts to "sell" this software.
This business model is not a new idea. People been talking about this since browsers appeared. And things like news, music and e-commerce are pretty much all-web already. However, it appears that Google has taken this a step further.
Irronically MicroSoft has been pursuing this strategy from a different dirrection. Its been converting many of its apps into web-enable xml. Apps were to be distributed via
Anybody can see the Martian icecaps in a telescope. I presume the article deals with discovering liquid water or water closer to the equator.
The idea of Star trek did not go stale, but the producers did. Nearly four of the series and most of the movies were from Rick Berman.
Last Trek: May 13
Last Star Wars: May 19
All financial sites adjust for splits in their long term price curves. You are very wrong.
On the other hand, these curves dont add back dividends. MicroSoft has paid out about 20% in dividends in the years, including [if not the largest] huge one last year. That divident was so large that they had to add asterisks to some national economic statistics: *include MicroSoft dividend payout.
There's the Lemmelson prize for inventors, the Fields medal for mathematics, the Japan prize for computer science. All these are near the mega-buck range and given out at most a couple people around the world a year.
These just dont have the media prestige of the Nobels. The media and prize mutually bolster each other. Also there is a ctitical mass of a couple hundred living recipients. The number is large enough to have influence, but not so large to be diluted.
Until the the late 1990s the price of MicroSoft stock doubled every two years. Then it reached a peak of arounf $60 in 2000 and has fallen by half since then.
Open source may be a "sunset" project this Silicon Valley branch of NASA because that site is to be decimated and perhaps closed.
Ames mainly performs long term R&D in space and areonautical sciences. There is an opinion in the adminstration that the federal government should not be conducting R&D internally, but outsourcing it to universities, companies, and think tanks. This is pretty much the model in the biological sciences.
The sporadic winds were two-edge sword. For the first [earth] year Spirit panels were getting progressing dirty, to the point where power was down to 40%. Then the one day the dust was mostly blown off and the power doubled. The fact that a devil may have actually collided with a rover suggested to NASA that they might be common enough to actively search for them.
Hes looked like a middle age slob now and then, between poor grooming and a weight issue. Then he comes back another time looking dapper.
I noticed this in the political biographies last year. Either the cover picture was smiling and confident or evil and dishevled.
In Mandarin porn is huang2de, or yellow.
Same pronunciation as "imperial", but that is a different character. Lots of puns there.
That would cause those 15,16 year old script kiddies to grow up quickly.
Also the military is so high-tech with remote reconaissance and robo-planes, that their expertise would be welcomed.
Not to mention a current shortage of US soldiers.
(Watch those script-kiddies md this to -1000.)
In my memory, the first Battlestar Galactica was inspired the first Star Wars movie. The models and robo-camera F/X, the action and cheesey characters are resembled Star Wars.