Mine had a rule you could only use Underwriters tested/approved electronics and nothing rigged up on you own. The chance of a fire, though low with low-powered LEDs, can be devastating in these highly crowded buildings.
When Scienctific American Mathematical Recreations published the Mandelbrot algorithm circa 1986, everybody tried to program it and look for interesting zooms and seeds. I know our lab tied its computers for weeks. And you saw it everywhere at trade show demos.
I spent days building the classic construction toys like Erector Sets, Kenner Panel and Girders, and Legos.
Alas, some of these are banned as too dangerous with swallable small parts.
From 1930s to 1960s the "future" was mainly about machines: better cars, airplanes, spaceships, appliances, robots, etc. Then in the 1970s and 1980s it was about ecology and psychology. In the past 20 years its become about computing and communications.
You can track the evolution of futurism by looking at old library books, or better the futurism exhibits at the Disney Parks. The original Tomorrowland was about machines. Then the Epcot dome depicted the post-Earth Day eco-thought. Finally the newests exhbits are digital.
Its been proposed not to base time on the cycles of astronomical objects, but on fundamental physical constants. Some fiddling with Planck's quanta action and the speed of light defines the smallest quantum of time likely to exist. Then you scale this up by powers of ten (or two) to the round interval closest to the conventional second to define the "Planck second". Ditto for the Planck meter and Planck gram.
My school got a teletype connection to some nearby college computer, probably a DEC machine. We were allowed to write BASIC programs. At the same time John Conway's "Game of Life" was the rage in Scientific American. So I coded it up in BASIC. Took about a minute to print each generation in asterisks and blanks.
A few years later I implemented the algorithm in bipolar circuits for digital electronics lab at the university. The display was was blobs on an oscilliscope. I recall it did several hundred generations a second. CRT computer terminals didnt really become widespread until shortly after that in 1975. They required that the price of a half kilobyte of ROM to fall to $100 (thanks to that upstart Intel). Type fonts patterns were stored in ROM. A 5x7 bit character set required 320 bytes of ROM.
The military employed rooms of women to compute ballistic tables and the like using mechanical calculators. I recall Richard Feyman mentioning this in one of his autobiographies. I presume this what lead women into programming work on the early electronic calculators and computers.
When I went to college, my dollar went further because so many services are subsidized there. You get cut rate rent, food, entertainment, library, internet, education etc. When leaving college, the cash flow in my life nearly tripled, but I didnt feel better off because, the cost of living tripled too.
The USA president appears to a man of limited intelligence on the surface. Yet his college entrance test scores give him an IQ of 128. And he manages to win elections and run the country, more or less.
(Of course this will be modded down by people who cant stand opinions different from their own.)
Outsourced programmers who have exhauste their unemployment benefits gravitate to tech sales jobs just to keep their finger in the pie. Many of them haven't learned how to be good sales people yet.
Glaciers carve rounded "U"-shaped valleys while rivers make pointed "V"-shaped valleys. You can distinguish the two in places like Yosemite and Denali which have valleys of both kinds in the past 15,000 years. The geologists were seeing this in the Mars photographs.
In the 1960s and 1970s Japan was growing leaps and bounds from a completely destroyed country at the end of the world war to nearly the level of US economy. The label "Made in Japan" changed from a denigration to a status symbol. But Japan was unable to go past the US economy. Perhaps capitalism can only so far at a given time. Or else Japan's local characteristics of capitalism- more cronyism, more conglomeration, face-saving hiding of problems, etc.- keeps it at its level.
It will be interesting to see if China also stagnates when it approaches the US per-capita level, or can exceed the US. China may have its own intrinsic issues. But China will rapidly close gap. And will be an interesting sight to watch.
The US designs have become stodgy and outdated after three decades without new local customers. Some the new ideas from abroad are much more safer and less expensive.
The FOIA allows agencies to charge a reasonable "copying" fee for labor and material. $2-$3 per page is not out of the question my experience. Image the fee for printing or copying millions of ballots.
The Russian space program sent the Lunokhod 1 rover to the moon in 1970 and Lunakhod 2 in 1973. Lunakhod 1 lived 8 months, moved over 10.5 km, and returned 20,000 pictures. Lunakhod 2 operated 4 months, moved 37 km, and returned 80,000 pictures.
Its been three years since RAM prices changed significantly. Its still $100 - $200 a gigabyte. The current chip fell to its commodity price of @$4 fairly quickly after introduction and stayed there. Some RAM companies have been fine for price colussion. In the meantime flash memory price has plumented from $500 a gigabyte to $100.
The variouos languages I learned in childhood seemed to parts of one big language, but using subsets to speak various people. On the other hand adult second languages have a "seperateness" about them.
"The X Prize was about recreating the X-15 program, nothing more."
But at a much lower cost in 2004 dollars than the massive 1950s program, due to advances in technology. Imagine a 21st century space shuttle.
Slashdot Mirror
Mine had a rule you could only use Underwriters tested/approved electronics and nothing rigged up on you own. The chance of a fire, though low with low-powered LEDs, can be devastating in these highly crowded buildings.
When Scienctific American Mathematical Recreations published the Mandelbrot algorithm circa 1986, everybody tried to program it and look for interesting zooms and seeds. I know our lab tied its computers for weeks. And you saw it everywhere at trade show demos.
I spent days building the classic construction toys like Erector Sets, Kenner Panel and Girders, and Legos. Alas, some of these are banned as too dangerous with swallable small parts.
From 1930s to 1960s the "future" was mainly about machines: better cars, airplanes, spaceships, appliances, robots, etc. Then in the 1970s and 1980s it was about ecology and psychology. In the past 20 years its become about computing and communications.
You can track the evolution of futurism by looking at old library books, or better the futurism exhibits at the Disney Parks. The original Tomorrowland was about machines. Then the Epcot dome depicted the post-Earth Day eco-thought. Finally the newests exhbits are digital.
Its been proposed not to base time on the cycles of astronomical objects, but on fundamental physical constants. Some fiddling with Planck's quanta action and the speed of light defines the smallest quantum of time likely to exist. Then you scale this up by powers of ten (or two) to the round interval closest to the conventional second to define the "Planck second". Ditto for the Planck meter and Planck gram.
My school got a teletype connection to some nearby college computer, probably a DEC machine. We were allowed to write BASIC programs. At the same time John Conway's "Game of Life" was the rage in Scientific American. So I coded it up in BASIC. Took about a minute to print each generation in asterisks and blanks.
A few years later I implemented the algorithm in bipolar circuits for digital electronics lab at the university. The display was was blobs on an oscilliscope. I recall it did several hundred generations a second. CRT computer terminals didnt really become widespread until shortly after that in 1975. They required that the price of a half kilobyte of ROM to fall to $100 (thanks to that upstart Intel). Type fonts patterns were stored in ROM. A 5x7 bit character set required 320 bytes of ROM.
The military employed rooms of women to compute ballistic tables and the like using mechanical calculators. I recall Richard Feyman mentioning this in one of his autobiographies. I presume this what lead women into programming work on the early electronic calculators and computers.
At Mach 10, it is going 0.00005c. Warp# is the cube root of lightspeed.
Denver gets around the explosion issue by put its demonstration fuel cell station at a fire station!
Seems like lots of M$ and Google services are being enhanced today. I welcome the new storage.
Its sort of like "safer sex", the only best answer is not to do it at all. Otherwise you rank the options.
When I went to college, my dollar went further because so many services are subsidized there. You get cut rate rent, food, entertainment, library, internet, education etc. When leaving college, the cash flow in my life nearly tripled, but I didnt feel better off because, the cost of living tripled too.
The USA president appears to a man of limited intelligence on the surface. Yet his college entrance test scores give him an IQ of 128. And he manages to win elections and run the country, more or less.
(Of course this will be modded down by people who cant stand opinions different from their own.)
Outsourced programmers who have exhauste their unemployment benefits gravitate to tech sales jobs just to keep their finger in the pie. Many of them haven't learned how to be good sales people yet.
Glaciers carve rounded "U"-shaped valleys while rivers make pointed "V"-shaped valleys. You can distinguish the two in places like Yosemite and Denali which have valleys of both kinds in the past 15,000 years. The geologists were seeing this in the Mars photographs.
I haven't been getting up as early since Daylight Savings Time ended, but I saw the conjunction this morning. Pretty spectacular.
In the 1960s and 1970s Japan was growing leaps and bounds from a completely destroyed country at the end of the world war to nearly the level of US economy. The label "Made in Japan" changed from a denigration to a status symbol. But Japan was unable to go past the US economy. Perhaps capitalism can only so far at a given time. Or else Japan's local characteristics of capitalism- more cronyism, more conglomeration, face-saving hiding of problems, etc.- keeps it at its level.
It will be interesting to see if China also stagnates when it approaches the US per-capita level, or can exceed the US. China may have its own intrinsic issues. But China will rapidly close gap. And will be an interesting sight to watch.
Once in a while you'll see a cosimic ray flash through your eyeball as a bright streak.
The US designs have become stodgy and outdated after three decades without new local customers. Some the new ideas from abroad are much more safer and less expensive.
The FOIA allows agencies to charge a reasonable "copying" fee for labor and material. $2-$3 per page is not out of the question my experience. Image the fee for printing or copying millions of ballots.
The Russian space program sent the Lunokhod 1 rover to the moon in 1970 and Lunakhod 2 in 1973. Lunakhod 1 lived 8 months, moved over 10.5 km, and returned 20,000 pictures. Lunakhod 2 operated 4 months, moved 37 km, and returned 80,000 pictures.
Its been three years since RAM prices changed significantly. Its still $100 - $200 a gigabyte. The current chip fell to its commodity price of @$4 fairly quickly after introduction and stayed there. Some RAM companies have been fine for price colussion. In the meantime flash memory price has plumented from $500 a gigabyte to $100.
URLs or IP addresses? :-)
Could be fun to hack them
The variouos languages I learned in childhood seemed to parts of one big language, but using subsets to speak various people. On the other hand adult second languages have a "seperateness" about them.
"The X Prize was about recreating the X-15 program, nothing more." But at a much lower cost in 2004 dollars than the massive 1950s program, due to advances in technology. Imagine a 21st century space shuttle.