People are investigating putting projection video into handheld devices like phones. The movtive is to obtain a large image in a small form factor. You only need a square centimenter for a scanning projector. The drawbacks are high power and need for a good surface. There were a coupld of papers at SIGGRAPH on warping images from oblique or moving projectors.
Theser are almost always inside jobs by an employee or ex who knows exactly what it there and what is marketable. Silicon Valley has been plagued by these for decades, particularly in commodity hardware manufacturing. A stick of memory chips can go for several hundred dollars.
The Kepler space probe will watch one piece of the sky constantly for five years to discover planets.
It will use the transit method, i.e. looking for
the dimming of stars when the planets cut in front
of them. Maybe one in two hundred planetary systems
would be oriented correctly to see transits.
These in turn may on only happen for a couple hours
every couple decades. However, if you watch several hundred thousand stars with a 350 megalpixel camera for five years, you'll porbably catch many of these. Plus a ton of asteroids you never knew were there.
Aussies commonly take a year or two travel vacations during their lives. The popular ages are just after school and when the kids are gone.
Amerians are so hard up about working and consuming they miss the important things in life.
You correctly identified the extra things you have to buy normally covered under regular jobs. These include self-employment tax, insurance of all kinds, vacation, retirement, training, conferences, and perhaps some computer equipment. If you changing jobs every week, the gaps and turmoil will be higher , necessitating about double a regular employees salary. If you have a stable contract more than six months, then these can be lower.
Sometimes early technology adoption can stiffle a country's development. For example France promoted a custom national network (minitel) which fell behind the more open and dynamic general InterNet. On the other hand the expense of land lines in China forced it into cell phones earlier than the states.
There is a whole branch of geophysical meteorology based on GPS jitter now. Its considered an efficent way to globally observe changes in the ionsphere, atmospheric moisture. etc. "One scientist's noise is anothers signal" as the aphorism goes.
I also thought it was more than coincidence a second is about the heartbeat of physcially fit adult. (70 beats a minute is considered below average fitness.)
It was around the first or second month of operation this year, but Spirit was unusable for a couple of weeks due to an OS failure. The symptom was Spirit tried to reboot itself about 20 times in a row- a default practice if something drastric happens. It was traced (according to the rumor mill) to flash memory overflow. Supposedly the VxWorks file manangement system improperly updated its flash memory free-inode list. So the memory appeared to run out of space.
The nice thing about software is that JPL was able to upload a patch and get both rovers working properly again. They reconfigured the Galileo mission to the bypass the broken high gain attenna and use the hundred times slower low gain attenna with software patches and achieved most of the mission objectives.
This is slightly off-topic, but I thought LEDs would make great Xmas lights with their high brightness and SAFER low power. But when I froogle "LED Christmas" I just see see a few knicknacks. Are they too expensive?
A rumor going around the usenet is that one of the appropriation bills has a last-minute clause that eliminates the H1B quota. There are still requirements to get these visas. I did a quick look at thomas.loc.gov which has the bill texts, but didnt see it.
I wonder how you employ drastically new technology without fearing a legion of lawyers. Especially since automobile ambulance chasing is the granddad of tort.
I think private space flight is in a similar situation. I think there is some legislation to enable this as long as partipants are willing and informed, and non-participants reasonably protected.
These days my photo ID is checked only once at the airport- usually just before TSA xray search. I can get a boarding pass and check-luggage automatically using the magnetized name strip on a standard credit card.
Scientists will argue endlessly whether a charcoal deposit is a hearth or natural fire, rock chips are artifacts or flood debris. There is a similar debate in Australia where some potential sites are nearly double the age of the oldest bones.
At China's wanton development rate, everything will be denuded desert or urban concrete by 2020. Sort of like looking at the surface of the Moon or Mars.
(Remember the USA cut down 90% of its ocean-to-ocean forests in the 18th and 19th century. Some of that came back during the 20th.)
Unlike most online newspapers and magazines, almost all the scientific journals I know of require a paid subscription to access. The exception are the couple of new bioscience journals in the Public Library of Science and the physics pre-print server (not peer-reviewed). But even that the author must pay $1500 for the cost of review and webification.
I find this a bit ironic. Science is an epistomological enterprise of creating knowledge by the open publication of results. However, the greedy for-profit academic publishers and professional societies know this wall. They have the academic community by the b*lls with their high subscription and publication page charges.
Even the index services like Scientific Citations, GeoRef, Lexus-Nexus, etc. charge high fees. Hopefully Google Scholar will do an end-run around these and provide a more accessable search service.
Last several jobs I had you a RFID pass card to enter the building and each floor. A few devious places make you swipe to leave the building. They could track you when necessary.
Shuttles re-enter at Mach 20. Atmospheric friction force is the square of velocity. So an orbital vehicle has to have four times the strength of X-43 and sixteen times Space Ship One.
The commericials that are in the middle of work- inserted in a time break, or into the visual- are altering the authors original expression without their permission. The doesn't apply to advertisement before or after a presentation (e.g. videotapes) or off to the side of a visual.
In the 1990s some economists were wondering if hundreds of billions of dollars invested in IT by business was going down the toilet. Because it didnt seem to be increasing productivity or profits. Well, WalMart is the counter example. It invested early and still is at the forefront. It manages to keep prices low (among other things). It is the largest productive force in the world, and may control a third of the world's retailing in a few decades.
InterNet gambling (despite daytrading) is still banned in the US. And this supported by credit card companies refusing to remit payment to *known* casinos. (So they have to hide under false names until detected and put onthe do-not-pay list.)
One of the news magazines last week had a piece about a goverment executive who bought a B.A., M.A., and PhD. on the web and was fired when she used these on a resume. She said she did all the work for these degrees and didnt know thye were phoney. Generally the work consisted of writing a resume of you "life experiences" and a term paper (which no faculty reads) about your degree and send in $7,000.
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People are investigating putting projection video into handheld devices like phones. The movtive is to obtain a large image in a small form factor. You only need a square centimenter for a scanning projector. The drawbacks are high power and need for a good surface. There were a coupld of papers at SIGGRAPH on warping images from oblique or moving projectors.
Your morning dump could power the country for a day if you could harness the inherent energy. I am amused by all these exoctic schemes.
Theser are almost always inside jobs by an employee or ex who knows exactly what it there and what is marketable. Silicon Valley has been plagued by these for decades, particularly in commodity hardware manufacturing. A stick of memory chips can go for several hundred dollars.
The Kepler space probe will watch one piece of the sky constantly for five years to discover planets. It will use the transit method, i.e. looking for the dimming of stars when the planets cut in front of them. Maybe one in two hundred planetary systems would be oriented correctly to see transits. These in turn may on only happen for a couple hours every couple decades. However, if you watch several hundred thousand stars with a 350 megalpixel camera for five years, you'll porbably catch many of these. Plus a ton of asteroids you never knew were there.
Aussies commonly take a year or two travel vacations during their lives. The popular ages are just after school and when the kids are gone.
Amerians are so hard up about working and consuming they miss the important things in life.
You correctly identified the extra things you have to buy normally covered under regular jobs. These include self-employment tax, insurance of all kinds, vacation, retirement, training, conferences, and perhaps some computer equipment. If you changing jobs every week, the gaps and turmoil will be higher , necessitating about double a regular employees salary. If you have a stable contract more than six months, then these can be lower.
Sometimes early technology adoption can stiffle a country's development. For example France promoted a custom national network (minitel) which fell behind the more open and dynamic general InterNet. On the other hand the expense of land lines in China forced it into cell phones earlier than the states.
There is a whole branch of geophysical meteorology based on GPS jitter now. Its considered an efficent way to globally observe changes in the ionsphere, atmospheric moisture. etc. "One scientist's noise is anothers signal" as the aphorism goes.
I also thought it was more than coincidence a second is about the heartbeat of physcially fit adult. (70 beats a minute is considered below average fitness.)
It was around the first or second month of operation this year, but Spirit was unusable for a couple of weeks due to an OS failure. The symptom was Spirit tried to reboot itself about 20 times in a row- a default practice if something drastric happens. It was traced (according to the rumor mill) to flash memory overflow. Supposedly the VxWorks file manangement system improperly updated its flash memory free-inode list. So the memory appeared to run out of space.
The nice thing about software is that JPL was able to upload a patch and get both rovers working properly again. They reconfigured the Galileo mission to the bypass the broken high gain attenna and use the hundred times slower low gain attenna with software patches and achieved most of the mission objectives.
This is slightly off-topic, but I thought LEDs would make great Xmas lights with their high brightness and SAFER low power. But when I froogle "LED Christmas" I just see see a few knicknacks. Are they too expensive?
A rumor going around the usenet is that one of the appropriation bills has a last-minute clause that eliminates the H1B quota. There are still requirements to get these visas. I did a quick look at thomas.loc.gov which has the bill texts, but didnt see it.
That sector is booming, and in Houston.
I wonder how you employ drastically new technology without fearing a legion of lawyers. Especially since automobile ambulance chasing is the granddad of tort.
I think private space flight is in a similar situation. I think there is some legislation to enable this as long as partipants are willing and informed, and non-participants reasonably protected.
These days my photo ID is checked only once at the airport- usually just before TSA xray search. I can get a boarding pass and check-luggage automatically using the magnetized name strip on a standard credit card.
Scientists will argue endlessly whether a charcoal deposit is a hearth or natural fire, rock chips are artifacts or flood debris. There is a similar debate in Australia where some potential sites are nearly double the age of the oldest bones.
At China's wanton development rate, everything will be denuded desert or urban concrete by 2020. Sort of like looking at the surface of the Moon or Mars.
(Remember the USA cut down 90% of its ocean-to-ocean forests in the 18th and 19th century. Some of that came back during the 20th.)
Unlike most online newspapers and magazines, almost all the scientific journals I know of require a paid subscription to access. The exception are the couple of new bioscience journals in the Public Library of Science and the physics pre-print server (not peer-reviewed). But even that the author must pay $1500 for the cost of review and webification.
I find this a bit ironic. Science is an epistomological enterprise of creating knowledge by the open publication of results. However, the greedy for-profit academic publishers and professional societies know this wall. They have the academic community by the b*lls with their high subscription and publication page charges.
Even the index services like Scientific Citations, GeoRef, Lexus-Nexus, etc. charge high fees. Hopefully Google Scholar will do an end-run around these and provide a more accessable search service.
A SM in poly-sci. But still that might make him a slashdot type.
Last several jobs I had you a RFID pass card to enter the building and each floor. A few devious places make you swipe to leave the building. They could track you when necessary.
Shuttles re-enter at Mach 20. Atmospheric friction force is the square of velocity. So an orbital vehicle has to have four times the strength of X-43 and sixteen times Space Ship One.
The commericials that are in the middle of work- inserted in a time break, or into the visual- are altering the authors original expression without their permission. The doesn't apply to advertisement before or after a presentation (e.g. videotapes) or off to the side of a visual.
In the 1990s some economists were wondering if hundreds of billions of dollars invested in IT by business was going down the toilet. Because it didnt seem to be increasing productivity or profits. Well, WalMart is the counter example. It invested early and still is at the forefront. It manages to keep prices low (among other things). It is the largest productive force in the world, and may control a third of the world's retailing in a few decades.
InterNet gambling (despite daytrading) is still banned in the US. And this supported by credit card companies refusing to remit payment to *known* casinos. (So they have to hide under false names until detected and put onthe do-not-pay list.)
One of the news magazines last week had a piece about a goverment executive who bought a B.A., M.A., and PhD. on the web and was fired when she used these on a resume. She said she did all the work for these degrees and didnt know thye were phoney. Generally the work consisted of writing a resume of you "life experiences" and a term paper (which no faculty reads) about your degree and send in $7,000.