Officially hiring is still under par. There are about
twenty resumes for every job offer. The job fair has 30 small-name booths. Applicants started a long line hours before the job fair opened.
Unofficially much of the hiring is backdoor through connections, smallish studio parties, etc.
There seems to be a fair amount of F/X business for F/X houses of all sizes.
This article is bogus. About 95% of the planets have been detected so far by causing subtle doppler-motion shifts in their parent stars. The lower threshhold of measuring this doppler shift from earth observatories can only measure the really massive and/or fast (close-in) planets. Several planned space-based observatories will improve on this. They will either have more sensitive doppler or use alternative methods such eclipsing transits (Kepler probe) , or direct observation of planets.
The Public Library of Science has been publishing two peer-reviewed biology journals on the net for over a year. They intend to be the model of open publishing. They charge the author $1500, which is comparable to submission charges in other journals. You get to read them for free. Many scientist write a few thousand in their grants for publication and conference travel.
Rutan's X-Prize attempt would the 5th and 6th manned flight of their vehicle, with the potential for many more. There is no evidence that SS1 has the organization to make 2nd flight or any there after.
From the 1950s to 1970s programming was considered a trade school discipline. MIT avoided even offering a major in the subject. Then it crept in as a minor in electrical engineering (6.3). Then in @1978 it made CS a titled majored (part of course 6). Before then people had to minor in CS via EE, math or business.
But they'd be very expensive and treacherous to produce with all that sea ice floating about. The Barent's Sea petroleum deposits in the arctic ocean has similar production problems, but a close-by market. Much easier to take-over a middle eastern country's reserves:-) Or exploit the huge reserves off-shore California.
Last September the European
SMART probe was launched to the Earth's Moon. It will take 15 months to arrive there by ion drive. Manned lunar missions took three days by chemical propellant.
The Denver Museum of Science has a 11-projector
57-foot screen planetarium. It is driven by a 30-node Onyx 3800. Most of the time it shows pre-rendered movies of solar system and galactic flybys. However it has a nifty interactive planetarium mode too.
Nearly half of german youths ready for work cant find meaningful employment due to the sluggish economy and heavy-handed government regulation of industry. The adult unemployment hovers 10-14%. Germany still widely uses the apprentice system for working youths into the economy, even for white collar jobs. Other youths become perpetual students (6,8,10 years) in the low-cost university system. So there's lots ofidle, creative people to get into mischief.
It was diagnosed by a sudden case of jaundice- turning orange and peeing black. The pancreas outlet is near the bile duct, so the tumor messed that up. This is basically a good sign, because if you diagnois it by adominal pain, it has probably spread too far for the operation.
The Whipple operation removes a good fraction of your digestive system- part of pancreas, part of stomach, part of colon, gall bladder. My friend lost 50 pounds from post-op recovery and radiation. However has gained half that back. He's had to learn how to eat on a diminished digestive system. A sliver of the pancreas was left, so no insulin is necessary.
Now I know scientists are mainly interested in curing this horrible human disease. However you have to consider what twisted minds would contemplate.
Some interesting properties if you weaponized artifical prions:
***A slow, horrible death- these have a latency of years and decades. When they do act, you lose mind and body functions.
***Almost impossible to detect- You could continimate food supplies, drinking supplies, etc.
***Very hard to sterilize- you thought anthrax spores were nasty, but doing things like gassing buildings with chlorine neutralizes them. There was an inadvertant empedemic of CJK disease in Denver a decade back. A neurosurgeon dutifully sterilized his surgerical instruments in a super-heated autoclave after operatinfg on CJK patient. However, the prions lingered for months on the instruments and infect another five patients.
***No cure or vaccine- though I heard of posibilities.
***Very small particles- which makes it easy to disperse and evade various bio-filters.
I read somewhere that the file-sharing of scanned-in book pages is taking off. People got frustrated waiting years for content, render-quality and value of ebooks to pan out. At the same time file-sharing software grew up and networks have the capacity to transmit a books' worth of page-images efficiently. The initial market is expensive texbooks and best-sellers.
>>>>Anyone else noticed that a lot of recent space project proposals state the purpose is to learn more about how planets or even the entire solar system was formed?
Is this just fashionable or a ploy to get funding?>>>>>
Knowledge of origins would help constrain the nature of solar systems about other stars. This would tell us how frequently planets inhabitable by humans occur, and planets where there might be intelligent life.
Ironically, were can only see "extreme planets" now with the limited sensitivity of earth-bound detectors. Of the 200-some discovered so far, only the grossly large (several times Jupiter) or super fast (weeks-long orbits) cause measurable doppler shifts their stars. The next generation(s) of space-based detectors will find more earth-like planets.
AllAboutHorses.com suggests the average annual cost of a horse is $7160. The breakdown is $1000 for feed, $2160 for bedding, vet bills, and other supplies, and $3600 for boarding. This does not include the ammortized cost of purchasing the horse.
They've long known all the hidden 32-bit bottlenecks in their OS and dealt with them. So I suspect, Sun's shipping date is mainly a matter of testing and verification.
Forbes has been complaining that federal support of advanced computing is too little? If the government over-stimulates an industry that has too small of a market, it wil just delay the failure.
Of course the governent should continue in its current policy of funding a few leading-edge machines that are too costly to sell into the general market, but will test new technology.
The governemnt itself is a customer will energy testing, weather modeling, medicine development, etc.
Rocky Flats is the factory north of Denver where nuclear bombs were assembled until 1992. It is 12 years into the 14 year cleanup plan, and there hasnt been a major accident yet. The place will revert to a wildlife preserve (e.g. three-eye frogs). There was lots of doom-and-gloom too when evaluating its cleanup plan.
I long ago learned to choose the line with the fewest females in it in order to get done the fastest. The majority of females will write checks or use a card for purchases, even for a $2 item, while the majority of guys will pull out the green stuff.
While waiting for the machine to act, I read the receipts most leave behind. I'm amazed at people who withdraw just $20 or $40, and incur the $3 non-=bank withdrawal charges. I am also amazed at the large fraction who have less than $100 in their accounts.
People with southern Italian names or domains, Russian, or Nigerian might have "friends" that will "visit" you if you cause too much ruckus.
Not to be taken lightly.
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Officially hiring is still under par. There are about twenty resumes for every job offer. The job fair has 30 small-name booths. Applicants started a long line hours before the job fair opened.
Unofficially much of the hiring is backdoor through connections, smallish studio parties, etc. There seems to be a fair amount of F/X business for F/X houses of all sizes.
This article is bogus. About 95% of the planets have been detected so far by causing subtle doppler-motion shifts in their parent stars. The lower threshhold of measuring this doppler shift from earth observatories can only measure the really massive and/or fast (close-in) planets. Several planned space-based observatories will improve on this. They will either have more sensitive doppler or use alternative methods such eclipsing transits (Kepler probe) , or direct observation of planets.
The Public Library of Science has been publishing two peer-reviewed biology journals on the net for over a year. They intend to be the model of open publishing. They charge the author $1500, which is comparable to submission charges in other journals. You get to read them for free. Many scientist write a few thousand in their grants for publication and conference travel.
Rutan's X-Prize attempt would the 5th and 6th manned flight of their vehicle, with the potential for many more. There is no evidence that SS1 has the organization to make 2nd flight or any there after.
From the 1950s to 1970s programming was considered a trade school discipline. MIT avoided even offering a major in the subject. Then it crept in as a minor in electrical engineering (6.3). Then in @1978 it made CS a titled majored (part of course 6). Before then people had to minor in CS via EE, math or business.
But they'd be very expensive and treacherous to produce with all that sea ice floating about. The Barent's Sea petroleum deposits in the arctic ocean has similar production problems, but a close-by market. Much easier to take-over a middle eastern country's reserves :-) Or exploit the huge reserves off-shore California.
Last September the European SMART probe was launched to the Earth's Moon. It will take 15 months to arrive there by ion drive. Manned lunar missions took three days by chemical propellant.
Isnt chips without connectors like write-only memory?
The Denver Museum of Science has a 11-projector 57-foot screen planetarium. It is driven by a 30-node Onyx 3800. Most of the time it shows pre-rendered movies of solar system and galactic flybys. However it has a nifty interactive planetarium mode too.
Nearly half of german youths ready for work cant find meaningful employment due to the sluggish economy and heavy-handed government regulation of industry. The adult unemployment hovers 10-14%. Germany still widely uses the apprentice system for working youths into the economy, even for white collar jobs. Other youths become perpetual students (6,8,10 years) in the low-cost university system. So there's lots ofidle, creative people to get into mischief.
It was diagnosed by a sudden case of jaundice- turning orange and peeing black. The pancreas outlet is near the bile duct, so the tumor messed that up. This is basically a good sign, because if you diagnois it by adominal pain, it has probably spread too far for the operation.
The Whipple operation removes a good fraction of your digestive system- part of pancreas, part of stomach, part of colon, gall bladder. My friend lost 50 pounds from post-op recovery and radiation. However has gained half that back. He's had to learn how to eat on a diminished digestive system. A sliver of the pancreas was left, so no insulin is necessary.
Some interesting properties if you weaponized artifical prions:
***A slow, horrible death- these have a latency of years and decades. When they do act, you lose mind and body functions.
***Almost impossible to detect- You could continimate food supplies, drinking supplies, etc.
***Very hard to sterilize- you thought anthrax spores were nasty, but doing things like gassing buildings with chlorine neutralizes them. There was an inadvertant empedemic of CJK disease in Denver a decade back. A neurosurgeon dutifully sterilized his surgerical instruments in a super-heated autoclave after operatinfg on CJK patient. However, the prions lingered for months on the instruments and infect another five patients.
***No cure or vaccine- though I heard of posibilities.
***Very small particles- which makes it easy to disperse and evade various bio-filters.
When every 15-year boy thinks they know it all :-)
I read somewhere that the file-sharing of scanned-in book pages is taking off. People got frustrated waiting years for content, render-quality and value of ebooks to pan out. At the same time file-sharing software grew up and networks have the capacity to transmit a books' worth of page-images efficiently. The initial market is expensive texbooks and best-sellers.
>>>>Anyone else noticed that a lot of recent space project proposals state the purpose is to learn more about how planets or even the entire solar system was formed? Is this just fashionable or a ploy to get funding?>>>>>
Knowledge of origins would help constrain the nature of solar systems about other stars. This would tell us how frequently planets inhabitable by humans occur, and planets where there might be intelligent life.
Ironically, were can only see "extreme planets" now with the limited sensitivity of earth-bound detectors. Of the 200-some discovered so far, only the grossly large (several times Jupiter) or super fast (weeks-long orbits) cause measurable doppler shifts their stars. The next generation(s) of space-based detectors will find more earth-like planets.
AllAboutHorses.com suggests the average annual cost of a horse is $7160. The breakdown is $1000 for feed, $2160 for bedding, vet bills, and other supplies, and $3600 for boarding. This does not include the ammortized cost of purchasing the horse.
They've long known all the hidden 32-bit bottlenecks in their OS and dealt with them. So I suspect, Sun's shipping date is mainly a matter of testing and verification.
Forbes has been complaining that federal support of advanced computing is too little? If the government over-stimulates an industry that has too small of a market, it wil just delay the failure.
Of course the governent should continue in its current policy of funding a few leading-edge machines that are too costly to sell into the general market, but will test new technology. The governemnt itself is a customer will energy testing, weather modeling, medicine development, etc.
South central Alaska has lots of traffic, even traffic jams. Not to mention infamous moose-crossings.
Rocky Flats is the factory north of Denver where nuclear bombs were assembled until 1992. It is 12 years into the 14 year cleanup plan, and there hasnt been a major accident yet. The place will revert to a wildlife preserve (e.g. three-eye frogs). There was lots of doom-and-gloom too when evaluating its cleanup plan.
I long ago learned to choose the line with the fewest females in it in order to get done the fastest. The majority of females will write checks or use a card for purchases, even for a $2 item, while the majority of guys will pull out the green stuff.
While waiting for the machine to act, I read the receipts most leave behind. I'm amazed at people who withdraw just $20 or $40, and incur the $3 non-=bank withdrawal charges. I am also amazed at the large fraction who have less than $100 in their accounts.
People with southern Italian names or domains, Russian, or Nigerian might have "friends" that will "visit" you if you cause too much ruckus.
Not to be taken lightly.
When I was in all profs were pushing IBM 360/OS and PL/I, wile the students wanted to work on the sexy little PDP machines.
(Opps, showing my age.:-)
MSFT will jump $3 (12%) immediately when the news becomes public. MSFT is a significant component in the each of the three major market indexes.