Some of these brain wave senses are actually picking up your eye muscle activity. In two ways: (1) direct muscle potential; (2) your eye movements can affect your brainwaves.
In practice this isnt bad. In degenerate nerve diseases or cervical trauma, your eye muscles are usually the last voluntary muscles to stop operating.
In the first (non-pilot) episode of Star Trek two crewmen acquire god-like psychic powers from a magnetic storm. Then powerful things happen by just thinking about it.
Earth has a large moon which stabilizes the tilt angle of its rotation axis. The Earth bulges at at equator from its rotation and the pull of the moon. The moon pulling on this bulge keeps the
earth's axis steepening much more than it is now- a 23-degree tilt. The tilt angle creates the seasons. If it tilted more, there'd be warmer summers and colder winters.
Mars lacks a significant moon. Therefore people speculate that it could tilt all the way over on its side sometimes and have extreme seasons. Maybe even extreme enough to melt the carbon and water ices at the poles and permafrost.
A major stop on NASA's space center tour is the moonwalking shrine.The tour leader beams with pride, but I am saddened by NASA's lack of progress in manned space exploration the past 35 years. Its a dusty old museum of past glories.
We do most of our cutting-edge R&D in the US and send our mature products to our Calgary division for late-stage releases and support. Its about 30% cheaper.
One of Asimov's late-career novels "The Bicentennial Man(*)" was made into a movie several years ago, starring Robin Williams. Its plot was about a Pinnochio-like robot who progressively becomes more human. It was not a commercial success because it was too cerebal and long. I remember some families walking out because they expected a typical Robin Williams comedy.
(* The title comes from scifi novels were written around the US 1976 Bicenntenial predicting 200 years in the future. Asimov recycled some of his robot themes.)
No matter where life started, meteorite impacts and sloughing off the atmosphere will frequently inject biomaterial into space. These will drift to the other planets moon. Doezens of meteors from Mars and the Moon have been discovered in Antarctica, where it is realtively easy to find the stuff on top of the ice. Imagine how much more has hit elsewhere on earth.
I expect FORTRTAN and COBOL to be around in some form 200 years from their invention cira 1950s.
(I'm not sure whether this should be mod funny or tragic:-)
Their web site has been mostly broken the past two years. No one seems to maintaining it.
They built a clock prototype, but the overall project seems to be moribound.
One needs to look only a few million miles away for a spectacular example of what happens during a magnetic field flip. Our Sun has been flipping its field direction every 22 years. When its gets close to flipping its magnetic field lines sometimes break away from the main field and become localized loops in what we see are sunspots. A sunspot is a region of the surface through which a field loop passes and cools the temperature a few percent and appears less bright than the surround solar surface. Sunspots usually occur in pairs or groups of alternating polarity coresponding to the parts of the magentic field line loops either entering or exit the solar surface. Sun spots occur in patterns migrating fromt he equator to poles over the course of a flip cycle. Huge solar storms and explosions are associated with these solar magnetic disruptions.
Magnetic intensity measurements of pottery and hearths of the past several thousand years find the a factor-of-three fluctuation in earth's field strength (half current to twice current) is rather normal in the scheme of things. Computer simulations such as the Los Alamos guy mentioned int he article find the same thing. A good metaphor is the magnetic field is like the flickering of a candle flame. The computer simulations found the liquid outer core of the earth is unstable compared the solid inner core. The field will then waver all the time until it flips.
Therefore it is difficult to distinguish a fluctuation from an impending flip until the dipole actually disintigrates into a multi-polar arrangment.
He is running on fumes. He did great stuff in the 1970s inventing SmallTalk, developing graphics GUIs, a formulating the "Dynabook", the early PDA. This stimulated Jobs and Gates to commercialize graphical computing and OOP-based OS's. But since then Kay hasn't really invented that much, missed "industrial-strength" OOP, missed the significance of the Web, PDAs, cellphones and other innovations. The Gore-Gates initative to make the Web available in every school and library by year 2000 did far more for children computing access than SmallTalk and eQuariums.
(Lets see if the moderators can distinguish a contrarian opinion from troll-bait.)
Both Galileo (Jupiter) and Magellan (Venus) lastest triple their nominal design time. But parts started failing. They could have each gone on somewhat longer, but NASA felt the science return versus personnel and deep-space communications cost was deteriorating.
My prediction is they pull the plug when the next generation of Mars probes (2006 orbitor) arrives.
They are trying to save $1 billion while they are sitting on $75 billion in the bank ($56 cash and $20 equities in other companies).
We are already seeing the "backlash" in our company. Most of the tech companies in our region nickeled-and-dimed their benefits down, We are seeing some significant turnover this year after three years of minor attrition.
I saw one in a local restaurant. It dispenses a CD for three three days for a dollar. However, if you dont return, your credit card is charged $25. They've just started advertising this.
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A hundred dollars or so.
Evenif it was illegal.
Some of these brain wave senses are actually picking up your eye muscle activity. In two ways: (1) direct muscle potential; (2) your eye movements can affect your brainwaves.
In practice this isnt bad. In degenerate nerve diseases or cervical trauma, your eye muscles are usually the last voluntary muscles to stop operating.
In the first (non-pilot) episode of Star Trek two crewmen acquire god-like psychic powers from a magnetic storm. Then powerful things happen by just thinking about it.
Earth has a large moon which stabilizes the tilt angle of its rotation axis. The Earth bulges at at equator from its rotation and the pull of the moon. The moon pulling on this bulge keeps the earth's axis steepening much more than it is now- a 23-degree tilt. The tilt angle creates the seasons. If it tilted more, there'd be warmer summers and colder winters.
Mars lacks a significant moon. Therefore people speculate that it could tilt all the way over on its side sometimes and have extreme seasons. Maybe even extreme enough to melt the carbon and water ices at the poles and permafrost.
Most DB apps are fill in the blanks or use very structured query languages. Why would word parsing be a problme then?
A major stop on NASA's space center tour is the moonwalking shrine.The tour leader beams with pride, but I am saddened by NASA's lack of progress in manned space exploration the past 35 years. Its a dusty old museum of past glories.
We do most of our cutting-edge R&D in the US and send our mature products to our Calgary division for late-stage releases and support. Its about 30% cheaper.
One of Asimov's late-career novels "The Bicentennial Man(*)" was made into a movie several years ago, starring Robin Williams. Its plot was about a Pinnochio-like robot who progressively becomes more human. It was not a commercial success because it was too cerebal and long. I remember some families walking out because they expected a typical Robin Williams comedy.
(* The title comes from scifi novels were written around the US 1976 Bicenntenial predicting 200 years in the future. Asimov recycled some of his robot themes.)
No matter where life started, meteorite impacts and sloughing off the atmosphere will frequently inject biomaterial into space. These will drift to the other planets moon. Doezens of meteors from Mars and the Moon have been discovered in Antarctica, where it is realtively easy to find the stuff on top of the ice. Imagine how much more has hit elsewhere on earth.
Perhaps it had something to do with the software only had four digits for year field. Or was it two digits? :-)
I expect FORTRTAN and COBOL to be around in some form 200 years from their invention cira 1950s. :-)
(I'm not sure whether this should be mod funny or tragic
Their web site has been mostly broken the past two years. No one seems to maintaining it.
They built a clock prototype, but the overall project seems to be moribound.
So now each show/movie effectively becomes its own channel. So will we have to revise that familar complaint about cable TV? :-)
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said "if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door".
One needs to look only a few million miles away for a spectacular example of what happens during a magnetic field flip. Our Sun has been flipping its field direction every 22 years. When its gets close to flipping its magnetic field lines sometimes break away from the main field and become localized loops in what we see are sunspots. A sunspot is a region of the surface through which a field loop passes and cools the temperature a few percent and appears less bright than the surround solar surface. Sunspots usually occur in pairs or groups of alternating polarity coresponding to the parts of the magentic field line loops either entering or exit the solar surface. Sun spots occur in patterns migrating fromt he equator to poles over the course of a flip cycle. Huge solar storms and explosions are associated with these solar magnetic disruptions.
Magnetic intensity measurements of pottery and hearths of the past several thousand years find the a factor-of-three fluctuation in earth's field strength (half current to twice current) is rather normal in the scheme of things. Computer simulations such as the Los Alamos guy mentioned int he article find the same thing. A good metaphor is the magnetic field is like the flickering of a candle flame. The computer simulations found the liquid outer core of the earth is unstable compared the solid inner core. The field will then waver all the time until it flips.
Therefore it is difficult to distinguish a fluctuation from an impending flip until the dipole actually disintigrates into a multi-polar arrangment.
He is running on fumes. He did great stuff in the 1970s inventing SmallTalk, developing graphics GUIs, a formulating the "Dynabook", the early PDA. This stimulated Jobs and Gates to commercialize graphical computing and OOP-based OS's. But since then Kay hasn't really invented that much, missed "industrial-strength" OOP, missed the significance of the Web, PDAs, cellphones and other innovations. The Gore-Gates initative to make the Web available in every school and library by year 2000 did far more for children computing access than SmallTalk and eQuariums.
(Lets see if the moderators can distinguish a contrarian opinion from troll-bait.)
Printing a bar code costs like a thousandth of cent while RFID is about $0.50 a tag. They should drop to a nickel in mass production.
The cover, and a continuation page inside are a multi-panel graphic introducing the article. I didnt get the duck.
At a velocity of ten meters per hour, do we really need a GPS to avoid losing the rovers?
Except when compared to any other government, noted one philosopher.
Any surface in the Minority Report movie becomes a video advertising display. An obvious extrapolation of flexible e-paper made cheap.
Both Galileo (Jupiter) and Magellan (Venus) lastest triple their nominal design time. But parts started failing. They could have each gone on somewhat longer, but NASA felt the science return versus personnel and deep-space communications cost was deteriorating.
My prediction is they pull the plug when the next generation of Mars probes (2006 orbitor) arrives.
They are trying to save $1 billion while they are sitting on $75 billion in the bank ($56 cash and $20 equities in other companies).
We are already seeing the "backlash" in our company. Most of the tech companies in our region nickeled-and-dimed their benefits down, We are seeing some significant turnover this year after three years of minor attrition.
I saw one in a local restaurant. It dispenses a CD for three three days for a dollar. However, if you dont return, your credit card is charged $25. They've just started advertising this.