I am impressed by the speed of loading the initial map, then the panning and zooming. Especially compared to the slow MicroSoft Terrascope and Mapquest options.
I went through my address book and looked at siblings houses, friends, and previous places I've lived. Could be a great real estate aid to see recreation and commercial context of location I was interested in. I see it as a way of recommending hiking and running locations too.
Newtonian theory allows black holes. People early on put these facts together: everything subject to gravity; things move in orbits subject to an escape velocity; light appears to particles; and light appears to have a finite velocity. When all these are assembled, you could conceive of a body dense enough with a radius and escape velocity greater than the speed of light.
All of the startup workstation and supercomputer companies used UNIX since 1980 for the same reason. UNIX was a known commodity to customers, it had been ported many times so it was realtively portable. Developing a new OS would double the effort and costs of a startup. Apollo, DEC, Cray, and the early microcomputers were the last companies before this trend to roll their own OS's.
Consumers rejecting intentionally dumbed-down
computers is an old phenomena. IBM tried to
introduce a "student computer" called the PC Junior
in the 1980s that received great ridicule. It had lower compacity in every component, not to mention the infamous "chiclet" button-less keyboard. Consumers would rather pay a low price for an older computer or one that could be upgraded, rather than one intentionally reduced. Even though this is effectively the same price and capacity as the reduced computer.
US health insurance is in the same boat. No one wants a "restricted plan" even though all but the wealthiest really buy such these days.
All these increment "my computer is faster than your computer" articles are getting boring. I'll be interested in when they reach a petaflop. With "Moore's law" predicting a 10x speed up every five years, that should be around 2010.
Given we've had two space shuttle crashes
and all 14 bodies were eventually recovered,
how much much of the bodies survived to be
worred about clean underwear? No details
were given, respecting family privacy.
Astrophysicist Allen Lasenby gave the keynote lecture at SIGGRAPH last year suggesting dark energy was really intrinsic elliptical curvature in space. (He gave the keynote talk because he is an expert in computational geometry used both in graphics and physics.) Other physicists agree that space may be curved, but claim that the curvature is caused by dark matter or dark energy in the cosmos.
Conventional A.I. research seems to be fossilized along "standard problems" not too different from when I took the M.I.T. A.I. course in the 1970s. (That course hasn't changed that much according to the OpenCourseware outlines.)
If the settlement was done before a judge or
arbitrator it makes it into a civil court database.
Both omnibus database companies and credit
agencies collect civil court records.
The latter doesnt usually collect criminal records.
As these comprehensive databases like ChoicePoint record more civil an criminal judgements, it gets harder to obtain a job at a mainstream company. Article in Wired about this issue yesterday.
A broker typically makes one per cent of a successful mortgage.
Soemtimes the applicant pays, or when money is flush, the lender pays. So paying $20-$50 a lead is not too bad.
If one can't reproduce the data or figures of another researcher's results, then it isn't science. And possibly its a wrong result too. And in some cases like medicine, harmful if it is wrong. A researcher should always make 100% his/her code and data available after a reasonable time period (typically a year) to publish it first.
I was at the Homebrew computer meeting in 1976 when the Two Steves introduced the Apple prototype. It was in a wooden box because they didnt have metal or plastic molding expertise. For production models, the FCC required a metal frame to block spurious radio signals.
The original impetus for the InterNet was to design distributed computer network for the miltary to survive nuclear war. The Dept of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded InterNet and computer research until Gore's superhighway funding in the 1980s.
Granted we are looking at non-military sources of threat, and there are some key weak spots in the system.
More then 50% of the commercial theatres have
been digital for several years. That it is because it the hometown of Regal theatre. Colorado oil mogul Phil Anshultz bought up several bankrupt movie chains and to form Regal. Competing chains have gone digital in Denver too.
The cheapest lawyers cost about $200 an hour, and sometimes paralegals will help you fill out the paperwork. But even so it will take several lawyer hours to churn out a boiler plate court filing (many examples at The Smoking Gun ).
Some countries control frivolous lawsuits by making the loser pay the court fees on both sides. In the US that is considered a violation of due process, so it genrally isnt done, though a judge can order it. Thus, frivoulous lawsuits can be filed fairly readily.
Customers are reluctant to buy vehicles that
require fillups more frequently than 300 miles.
The EV1 was 70-90 miles. Current hydrogen cars are about 120 miles.
I've seen concrete and bricks that let in light. You insert optical fiber perpendicular to the surface, before it hardens. You can control the amount of translucently by the amount of fiber.
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I am impressed by the speed of loading the initial map, then the panning and zooming. Especially compared to the slow MicroSoft Terrascope and Mapquest options.
I went through my address book and looked at siblings houses, friends, and previous places I've lived. Could be a great real estate aid to see recreation and commercial context of location I was interested in. I see it as a way of recommending hiking and running locations too.
Newtonian theory allows black holes. People early on put these facts together: everything subject to gravity; things move in orbits subject to an escape velocity; light appears to particles; and light appears to have a finite velocity. When all these are assembled, you could conceive of a body dense enough with a radius and escape velocity greater than the speed of light.
All of the startup workstation and supercomputer companies used UNIX since 1980 for the same reason. UNIX was a known commodity to customers, it had been ported many times so it was realtively portable. Developing a new OS would double the effort and costs of a startup. Apollo, DEC, Cray, and the early microcomputers were the last companies before this trend to roll their own OS's.
Consumers rejecting intentionally dumbed-down computers is an old phenomena. IBM tried to introduce a "student computer" called the PC Junior in the 1980s that received great ridicule. It had lower compacity in every component, not to mention the infamous "chiclet" button-less keyboard. Consumers would rather pay a low price for an older computer or one that could be upgraded, rather than one intentionally reduced. Even though this is effectively the same price and capacity as the reduced computer.
US health insurance is in the same boat. No one wants a "restricted plan" even though all but the wealthiest really buy such these days.
All these increment "my computer is faster than your computer" articles are getting boring. I'll be interested in when they reach a petaflop. With "Moore's law" predicting a 10x speed up every five years, that should be around 2010.
But it was a fanstastic showing from a minority kid igh school!
Given we've had two space shuttle crashes and all 14 bodies were eventually recovered, how much much of the bodies survived to be worred about clean underwear? No details were given, respecting family privacy.
Astrophysicist Allen Lasenby gave the keynote lecture at SIGGRAPH last year suggesting dark energy was really intrinsic elliptical curvature in space. (He gave the keynote talk because he is an expert in computational geometry used both in graphics and physics.) Other physicists agree that space may be curved, but claim that the curvature is caused by dark matter or dark energy in the cosmos.
This is really just a phony press release to increase interest in the next Jurassic Park movie!
Conventional A.I. research seems to be fossilized along "standard problems" not too different from when I took the M.I.T. A.I. course in the 1970s. (That course hasn't changed that much according to the OpenCourseware outlines.)
If the settlement was done before a judge or arbitrator it makes it into a civil court database. Both omnibus database companies and credit agencies collect civil court records. The latter doesnt usually collect criminal records.
As these comprehensive databases like ChoicePoint record more civil an criminal judgements, it gets harder to obtain a job at a mainstream company. Article in Wired about this issue yesterday.
A broker typically makes one per cent of a successful mortgage. Soemtimes the applicant pays, or when money is flush, the lender pays. So paying $20-$50 a lead is not too bad.
I just counted them in the morning paper. Thats about 2/3rd the total. We've pretty much already done what the Irish are proposing.
If one can't reproduce the data or figures of another researcher's results, then it isn't science. And possibly its a wrong result too. And in some cases like medicine, harmful if it is wrong. A researcher should always make 100% his/her code and data available after a reasonable time period (typically a year) to publish it first.
If you catch them in summer repeats, you'll see a fun place to work.
I was at the Homebrew computer meeting in 1976 when the Two Steves introduced the Apple prototype. It was in a wooden box because they didnt have metal or plastic molding expertise. For production models, the FCC required a metal frame to block spurious radio signals.
Clifford Stoll's 2000 book High Tech Heretic made a similar claim about the dangers of computers in basic education.
./ under his own name and aliases.)
(Stoll posts in
The original impetus for the InterNet was to design distributed computer network for the miltary to survive nuclear war. The Dept of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded InterNet and computer research until Gore's superhighway funding in the 1980s.
Granted we are looking at non-military sources of threat, and there are some key weak spots in the system.
More then 50% of the commercial theatres have been digital for several years. That it is because it the hometown of Regal theatre. Colorado oil mogul Phil Anshultz bought up several bankrupt movie chains and to form Regal. Competing chains have gone digital in Denver too.
The cheapest lawyers cost about $200 an hour, and sometimes paralegals will help you fill out the paperwork. But even so it will take several lawyer hours to churn out a boiler plate court filing (many examples at The Smoking Gun ).
Some countries control frivolous lawsuits by making the loser pay the court fees on both sides. In the US that is considered a violation of due process, so it genrally isnt done, though a judge can order it. Thus, frivoulous lawsuits can be filed fairly readily.
Customers are reluctant to buy vehicles that require fillups more frequently than 300 miles. The EV1 was 70-90 miles. Current hydrogen cars are about 120 miles.
He is listed in the film credits now at the official lucas website.
I've seen concrete and bricks that let in light. You insert optical fiber perpendicular to the surface, before it hardens. You can control the amount of translucently by the amount of fiber.