Leslie Stall interviewed George Lucas last Sunday.
They must have shown about ten ten-second clips from episode three. Among there were wookies, the climatic battle scene on the volcanic planet, whoi the Sith leader really was (as we didn't now), Hayden Christian turning haggard and zombie-like, the new & improved digital yoda, and son on.
Other tidbits include ILM impeding move to S.F. Presido (too bad Star Fleet HQ), Lucas's three children as teenagers, and news about SW VII.
Don't go into coding, but how you design the elements, the action sequences, etc. Then tell them how you have fit these into the *limits* of a computer. Then show them how other [ interactive ] applications, e.g. a text-editor- resemble video games. Kids relate to video games.
I remember how every joked about Alan Greenspans aghast at the NASDAQ runnup in 1996: "irrational exuberance". People even wrote books on the cliche. Greenspan was right, but a few years off. I get the feeling about real estate- no "if", but "when".
The term "reversible computing" has also been used for a type of circuit that does not consume energy, other than entropy, for computation. The trick is run a computation in parallel that goes in the opposite direction. Theoretically, this would mean really long-lived laptops and space probes, but I haven't heard of anyone testing this on more than a few gates.
Governemnt agencies arent as good as private companies in developing software, so it may be better to farm it out to those hungry enough to make a profit. If the private software fails, the word gets out quickly and the company fails. Turbo Tax nearly died three years ago when when it required InterNet activation. Customers left in droves and only slowly returning.
There were twenty free-filing web software sites at irs.gov when I checked today. In previous years they were free only if you made less than $35K, but several of them, including the biggest names, are totally free this year. You may have to pay for state filing, or very specialized forms, or tax advice software.
I filed before these were available, so I haven't tried one. I am hesitant to type my ID numbers and list of income generating accounts into a web site where who knows who is looking. More hesitant when hearing about even more devious spyware.
The IRS only allows certified 3rd parties to efile for you. This is to decrease fraud.
The San Jose Mercury said yesterday that NASA offering voluntary severance to almost all of its NASA Ames employees and contractors. It may have to lay off half of them due to budget cuts. NASA Ames has been a center of space and engineering science. due to its location, it very expensive to operate. However it draws on Silicon Valley and the local universities for talent.
Even though my company hasnt used SSN on health and dental insurance this century, many of the invoices I get from health and dental providers still have SSNs on them. I am not sure how how they get these numbers. I guess some doctors check your insurance records to see if pay on time or sue and collect the numbers from there.
California made it illegal for insurance providers to use SSN as policy numbers, but that doesnt stop the databases.
George Bush applied and was graduated from Harvard Business School. Woud he have peeked if he applied today?
Probably not, since he claims not to read books or magazines (in a Dateline interview) he probably would not of learned of the hack.
Plus his father or grandfather would have pulled strings.
Stanford Business School said it had 42 illegal accesses. However, Stanford's initial position is to ask the applicants who accessed to identify themselves. I wonder if they are making forgiveness for honesty, because like Harvard, they know exactly where the accesses occurred.
One concern was classmates or relatives of the checking out the applicant. That would be unfair to the applicant. However, the article in Harvard Crimson seem to indicate that at some point you had login with a password. So only the applicant or spouse would have done it then.
The webserver probably could have recorded an IP address with each access, and many of those can be geographically verified. However, this would still have the problem of some one else than the applicant checking.
Interesting article about a growing anti-phishing industry. They note strange temporal patterns, IPs that read official sites, but dont log in. They use "honeypot" accounts to capture phishers.
The annual taxes on my cable bill are about $48.
The various taxes and mandatory "fees" on my various phone lines is $132 a year.
This is about half what the Brits pay, but not insiginificant.
They've been doing such races for over a century (including land). Its generally defined as 20,000 miles or more, or about 80% of a great circle. There are meteorological and land area problems doing a true great circle.
Its more like $300K = $140K average engineer salary plus 100% overhead for facilities and benefits.
In India you can get $50K engineers, including overhead.
Americans are pretty anal about working year-in and year-out. Plus making and spending horades on huge houses, cars, computers, and families. Many other societies have more relaxed attitudes. People take a summer off, a year off now and them to refresh themselves and see something else.
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Leslie Stall interviewed George Lucas last Sunday. They must have shown about ten ten-second clips from episode three. Among there were wookies, the climatic battle scene on the volcanic planet, whoi the Sith leader really was (as we didn't now), Hayden Christian turning haggard and zombie-like, the new & improved digital yoda, and son on.
Other tidbits include ILM impeding move to S.F. Presido (too bad Star Fleet HQ), Lucas's three children as teenagers, and news about SW VII.
There were 4 or 5 of these "automatic segmentation via hints" at SIGGRAPH last year. This is are useful montages as well as painting.
Don't go into coding, but how you design the elements, the action sequences, etc. Then tell them how you have fit these into the *limits* of a computer. Then show them how other [ interactive ] applications, e.g. a text-editor- resemble video games. Kids relate to video games.
On slashdot about three months ago.
I remember how every joked about Alan Greenspans aghast at the NASDAQ runnup in 1996: "irrational exuberance". People even wrote books on the cliche. Greenspan was right, but a few years off. I get the feeling about real estate- no "if", but "when".
The term "reversible computing" has also been used for a type of circuit that does not consume energy, other than entropy, for computation. The trick is run a computation in parallel that goes in the opposite direction. Theoretically, this would mean really long-lived laptops and space probes, but I haven't heard of anyone testing this on more than a few gates.
It slips my mind.
Governemnt agencies arent as good as private companies in developing software, so it may be better to farm it out to those hungry enough to make a profit. If the private software fails, the word gets out quickly and the company fails. Turbo Tax nearly died three years ago when when it required InterNet activation. Customers left in droves and only slowly returning.
There were twenty free-filing web software sites at irs.gov when I checked today. In previous years they were free only if you made less than $35K, but several of them, including the biggest names, are totally free this year. You may have to pay for state filing, or very specialized forms, or tax advice software.
I filed before these were available, so I haven't tried one. I am hesitant to type my ID numbers and list of income generating accounts into a web site where who knows who is looking. More hesitant when hearing about even more devious spyware.
The IRS only allows certified 3rd parties to efile for you. This is to decrease fraud.
The San Jose Mercury said yesterday that NASA offering voluntary severance to almost all of its NASA Ames employees and contractors. It may have to lay off half of them due to budget cuts. NASA Ames has been a center of space and engineering science. due to its location, it very expensive to operate. However it draws on Silicon Valley and the local universities for talent.
Michael Moore has made documentaries on the company that bought us out, but it didn't appear in this article. Sigh.
Even though my company hasnt used SSN on health and dental insurance this century, many of the invoices I get from health and dental providers still have SSNs on them. I am not sure how how they get these numbers. I guess some doctors check your insurance records to see if pay on time or sue and collect the numbers from there.
California made it illegal for insurance providers to use SSN as policy numbers, but that doesnt stop the databases.
George Bush applied and was graduated from Harvard Business School. Woud he have peeked if he applied today?
Probably not, since he claims not to read books or magazines (in a Dateline interview) he probably would not of learned of the hack. Plus his father or grandfather would have pulled strings.
Would he have said "your fired" or "your hired" for this display of ingenuity?
Stanford Business School said it had 42 illegal accesses. However, Stanford's initial position is to ask the applicants who accessed to identify themselves. I wonder if they are making forgiveness for honesty, because like Harvard, they know exactly where the accesses occurred.
One concern was classmates or relatives of the checking out the applicant. That would be unfair to the applicant. However, the article in Harvard Crimson seem to indicate that at some point you had login with a password. So only the applicant or spouse would have done it then.
The webserver probably could have recorded an IP address with each access, and many of those can be geographically verified. However, this would still have the problem of some one else than the applicant checking.
If you could get ten cents on the dollar for the $90 billion International Space Station you could keep manned space flight going for some time.
Why does this make me want to cry instead of laugh?
Interesting article about a growing anti-phishing industry. They note strange temporal patterns, IPs that read official sites, but dont log in. They use "honeypot" accounts to capture phishers.
The annual taxes on my cable bill are about $48.
The various taxes and mandatory "fees" on my various phone lines is $132 a year.
This is about half what the Brits pay, but not insiginificant.
They've been doing such races for over a century (including land). Its generally defined as 20,000 miles or more, or about 80% of a great circle. There are meteorological and land area problems doing a true great circle.
The guy peed into an attached tube. He avoided eating roughage for a week so he would hardly need to shit in three days according to web site.
The first several space flights made no allowance for the toilet. That caused a funny incident during a several-hour delay of John Glenn's flight.
This place had an extra long runway, formerly used by B-52s. Great for extra large experimental planes.
The same company to make the first certified space plane made this airplane. Each new super high tech plane design improves the overall technology.
Its more like $300K = $140K average engineer salary plus 100% overhead for facilities and benefits. In India you can get $50K engineers, including overhead.
Americans are pretty anal about working year-in and year-out. Plus making and spending horades on huge houses, cars, computers, and families. Many other societies have more relaxed attitudes. People take a summer off, a year off now and them to refresh themselves and see something else.