China cloned the ancient Russian soyez design, with a few modernizations for its manned space program. Why give up something that works? Soyez has a very limited cargo capacity, but Russians used unmanned rockets for big cargo.
While SS1 is a great undertaking, it just achieved the capabilities of the X-15 of 1963. Orbital flight requires a ship that can withstand rentry stresses of Mach-20 heating. Suborbital flight only reaches Mach-5.
About once a month I get a phone from the MIT alumni organization asking for more contributions. Almost all the callers are young women with south Asian accents. I cant say what country these people are located in, but pretty much know where the HQ is at.
On the positive side, MIT cuts overhead costs of fund raising.
On the negative side, obvious outsourcing rankles some of the alumni I've talked to, because their positions are under the outsourcing cloud too.
MIT also outsources the webification of its famous OpenCourseWare to south Asia. The preliminary materials are submitted in various forms by profs and TAs and polished up by the outsource company.
Its likely than homo sapiens could successfully breed with other hominoids, but would naturally be disinclined to do so. Sort of like lions and tigers, donkeys and horses, etc.
They'll warp this image to to some regular map projection. The motion of the space craft and oblique angle of the camera on some of the shots are corrected for. This particularly noticeable on raw Mars orbitor pics.
Speed record increases of 20% or less.
Same old cluster technology. We are always reading about this or that fancy new technology, but none of that scales up into commercially viable supercomputers.
Cassini passes within 800 miles of Titan about 5:40 PM EST tommorrow. Some imaging earlier in the mission saw some stuff below the haze. Could be spectacular.
I would guess about 60-75% of MIT freshmen would already have programmed in more "trendy" languages before coming to MIT. SCHEME is intended as a teaching language, not to get an immediate job.
At MIT the required first computer course uses the 47-year old LISP language, at least the object-oriented, modular version called SCHEME. I guess this partially intertia, having done this since the 1970s. All electrical engineers and computer sci majors are required to take this course. That can be 40% of MIT undergrads in popular years.
The mouse genome was decoded the reverse way from the human. They inventoried proteins first, then constructed the DNA source. There are abotu 60,000 of these compared with 25-30,000 "genes". So coding regions in mammals may express on average 2-3 proteins.
This was the Sun MicroSystem "thin client" model first proposed in 1986. No disk or OS in client computer. On the other hand, companies like NCR were promoting "smart terminals", for example X terminals" that had the XWindows graphics system downloaded into a terminal computer for local rendering. It was sort of a gradation between smart terminals and thin clients.
Over the decades, there has been a constant pull-and-tug between centralized and decentralized computer services. This evolves along with CPU, pipe, and graphics technology. We have people promoting "supercomputing under your desk" and "grid computer utilities" currently the extreme poles of decentralized and centralized computing.
I recall (was it slashdot?) that a university consortia launches mini-sats in the US. A mini-sat must fit inside a 10 cm (4 inch) edge cube and weigh no more than two kilos (4.4 lbs). The launch fee is $25K.
I just use a fake ssn for non-tax purposes like the dentist or video rentals. You should consistently remember the same fake one.
Considering that illegally employed people have deposited at least $374 BILLIONS in fake numbers: here Probably annother $200 BILLIONS in real numbers (assuming 1/3rd number space used so far).
Some of us were remembering the the M7 Loma Prieta quake exactly 15 years ago Monday. 10% of Stanford buildings were condemned, several freeways collapsed, but the InterNet went humming along. People used it send email when the phones were dead and exchange earthquake data. At that time the net was more concentrated in the US with root servers in D.C. and Silicon Valley.
You'll lucky if the actual computer work itself fills half of your time. There is negotiation time to obtain and specify the job. There is wrapup time to hand of the project, write it up, fix bugs. You many have travel time to a distant site. You'll have dead time between contracts. And so on.
The X15 space plane set the previous space plane altitude record in 1963 at 107 km. SS1 execeded this on Monday's run, but it was a similar style.
The main difference SS1 is a private effort.
Are top-heavy with PhDs. Companies like that might hire over-educated people for the immediately available positions in hopes the extra smarts pay off later on.
On the other hand you'll find some companies that wont take a chance with a PhD because they think a PhD wants too much money or feel certain types of work are beneath them.
I am in the camp that believes critical software-mechanical projects can be successfully managed. But we got to be extremely careful as NASA, Airbus, etc. have learned.
A successful "weak" quake prediction is defined as beating background probability. For example Southern California (Mohave desert to Mexican border) experiences slightly more than one M5 a year on average; or a M7 in 20 years. Even so, no prediction method method so far, except perhaps Rundle's, has achieved weak prediction.
However weak prediction is psychologically unsatisfactory for the public. They generally want to know damaging quakes (>M6) within a month in a county size area. This is a thousand times less probable than a successful weak prediction. Furthermore, the tornado and hurricane people found that the public will ignore severe weather prediction with less than a 20% probability of occuring in one day. It will take a lot of work to have successful strong predictions.
One perecent of caucausians have a defect in the CCR5 cell surface protein that prevents HIV infection. This is thought to have been related to the bubonic plague survival too.
In the last two decades airplane piloting has gradually replace most direct contact with controls by a mediating computer layer. Some pilots dont trust the computers or software completely. This is called the fly-by-wire debate. Some accidents are attributed to bad software, although the testing is quite rigorous.
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China cloned the ancient Russian soyez design, with a few modernizations for its manned space program. Why give up something that works? Soyez has a very limited cargo capacity, but Russians used unmanned rockets for big cargo.
No year mention could be any year :-)
While SS1 is a great undertaking, it just achieved the capabilities of the X-15 of 1963. Orbital flight requires a ship that can withstand rentry stresses of Mach-20 heating. Suborbital flight only reaches Mach-5.
I agree, but the algorithms and speed for higher resolution haver improved the past decade.
About once a month I get a phone from the MIT alumni organization asking for more contributions. Almost all the callers are young women with south Asian accents. I cant say what country these people are located in, but pretty much know where the HQ is at.
On the positive side, MIT cuts overhead costs of fund raising.
On the negative side, obvious outsourcing rankles some of the alumni I've talked to, because their positions are under the outsourcing cloud too.
MIT also outsources the webification of its famous OpenCourseWare to south Asia. The preliminary materials are submitted in various forms by profs and TAs and polished up by the outsource company.
Its likely than homo sapiens could successfully breed with other hominoids, but would naturally be disinclined to do so. Sort of like lions and tigers, donkeys and horses, etc.
They'll warp this image to to some regular map projection. The motion of the space craft and oblique angle of the camera on some of the shots are corrected for. This particularly noticeable on raw Mars orbitor pics.
Speed record increases of 20% or less.
Same old cluster technology. We are always reading about this or that fancy new technology, but none of that scales up into commercially viable supercomputers.
Cassini passes within 800 miles of Titan about 5:40 PM EST tommorrow. Some imaging earlier in the mission saw some stuff below the haze. Could be spectacular.
I would guess about 60-75% of MIT freshmen would already have programmed in more "trendy" languages before coming to MIT. SCHEME is intended as a teaching language, not to get an immediate job.
Annualized earning of $208M with cap of $45.59B. Sounds like a classic InterNet bubble to me.
At MIT the required first computer course uses the 47-year old LISP language, at least the object-oriented, modular version called SCHEME. I guess this partially intertia, having done this since the 1970s. All electrical engineers and computer sci majors are required to take this course. That can be 40% of MIT undergrads in popular years.
The mouse genome was decoded the reverse way from the human. They inventoried proteins first, then constructed the DNA source. There are abotu 60,000 of these compared with 25-30,000 "genes". So coding regions in mammals may express on average 2-3 proteins.
This was the Sun MicroSystem "thin client" model first proposed in 1986. No disk or OS in client computer. On the other hand, companies like NCR were promoting "smart terminals", for example X terminals" that had the XWindows graphics system downloaded into a terminal computer for local rendering. It was sort of a gradation between smart terminals and thin clients.
Over the decades, there has been a constant pull-and-tug between centralized and decentralized computer services. This evolves along with CPU, pipe, and graphics technology. We have people promoting "supercomputing under your desk" and "grid computer utilities" currently the extreme poles of decentralized and centralized computing.
I recall (was it slashdot?) that a university consortia launches mini-sats in the US. A mini-sat must fit inside a 10 cm (4 inch) edge cube and weigh no more than two kilos (4.4 lbs). The launch fee is $25K.
Though currently banned in the USA, they are ppoping in churches and theaters in other countries fed up with the rudeness of audiences.
I just use a fake ssn for non-tax purposes like the dentist or video rentals. You should consistently remember the same fake one.
Considering that illegally employed people have deposited at least $374 BILLIONS in fake numbers: here Probably annother $200 BILLIONS in real numbers (assuming 1/3rd number space used so far).
Some of us were remembering the the M7 Loma Prieta quake exactly 15 years ago Monday. 10% of Stanford buildings were condemned, several freeways collapsed, but the InterNet went humming along. People used it send email when the phones were dead and exchange earthquake data. At that time the net was more concentrated in the US with root servers in D.C. and Silicon Valley.
You'll lucky if the actual computer work itself fills half of your time. There is negotiation time to obtain and specify the job. There is wrapup time to hand of the project, write it up, fix bugs. You many have travel time to a distant site. You'll have dead time between contracts. And so on.
The X15 space plane set the previous space plane altitude record in 1963 at 107 km. SS1 execeded this on Monday's run, but it was a similar style. The main difference SS1 is a private effort.
Are top-heavy with PhDs. Companies like that might hire over-educated people for the immediately available positions in hopes the extra smarts pay off later on.
On the other hand you'll find some companies that wont take a chance with a PhD because they think a PhD wants too much money or feel certain types of work are beneath them.
I am in the camp that believes critical software-mechanical projects can be successfully managed. But we got to be extremely careful as NASA, Airbus, etc. have learned.
A successful "weak" quake prediction is defined as beating background probability. For example Southern California (Mohave desert to Mexican border) experiences slightly more than one M5 a year on average; or a M7 in 20 years. Even so, no prediction method method so far, except perhaps Rundle's, has achieved weak prediction.
However weak prediction is psychologically unsatisfactory for the public. They generally want to know damaging quakes (>M6) within a month in a county size area. This is a thousand times less probable than a successful weak prediction. Furthermore, the tornado and hurricane people found that the public will ignore severe weather prediction with less than a 20% probability of occuring in one day. It will take a lot of work to have successful strong predictions.
One perecent of caucausians have a defect in the CCR5 cell surface protein that prevents HIV infection. This is thought to have been related to the bubonic plague survival too.
In the last two decades airplane piloting has gradually replace most direct contact with controls by a mediating computer layer. Some pilots dont trust the computers or software completely. This is called the fly-by-wire debate. Some accidents are attributed to bad software, although the testing is quite rigorous.