Marc Levoy at Stanford has scanned Michelangelo's statutes at sub-millimeter resolution. These generate billion polygon meshes at full resolution. Its a challange to render these. But when done properly they can seem rather real, and easier to view than in the museum. Other people are scanning other art works like the Parthenon friezes.
I remember 3D extensions to browsers circa 1995. They used a metafile format called "virtual reality markup language", which was a variant of the SGI Inventor 3D metafiles (simplification plus web keywords). In the 1990s both the slow net bandwidths and slow graphics engines were bottlenecks.
People made demos like the Xerox PARC multi-player maze chase game. But it was slow.
The two American rovers plus the ESA Orbitor have dual CCD systems for 3D. JPL periodicall released stereo panoramas. The ESA results are spectacular compared to the older altimeter-based 3D renderings.
In a related development, NASA announced the discovery of magnesium sulfate at the Spirit site. This compound is marketed to consumers under the name "epsom salts".
One in eight US children and teenagers takes an anti-depressive or attention-improving amphetimine.
There have been a slew of recent articles in newspapers debating whether this works. We create life-long customers for the drug companies early on in the US:-)
I should be so hypocritical. Alcohol, caffine, tobacco, and weed are widely used to improve mood. I consume two of these myself.
By the time one becomes a PhD, they should know what is a significant, doable problem in their field. Masters students or beginning PhD students oftern choose the wrong-size problem. It may be something triviable and already doen by someone else. Or something that may take decades and gigabucks. A right-size problem can be done in about two years. Sometimes an advisor lets the student learn the hard way by letting the student work on a wrong-size problem. The coursework and skillset difference between a masters and PhD is often not that great.
I've been using usenet since 1988, with an alias since 1997. With google that stuff seems to stick around forever. Some of the comments I wouldnt want my mother to read, but she could if clever enough.
I recall reading some site that snapshot and archive the web, but forgot where these were. I wonder if google archives?
Microsoft has something like $55 billion in cash and short-term investments, and another $15 of equities in other companies. They could weather a decade with that.
Some biologists have noticed that bipolar sex, multicellular differentiation, and preprogrammed death (at both the cellular level and whole organism) seemed to have evolved together. Only single cell life and the simplest multicellar organisms live forever until they are eaten, starve, or encounter an adverse environment. These organisms lack tissue differentiation and gender. Though they may mix genetic material.
Several scientists and scifi writers have speculated that such treatments may have to be applied relatively early in life, probably before puberty. By then the body may have used up too much of its regnerative capability. Or reproductive capability may negate immortality.
This has resulted in the "Neverland" scenario where immortals are perpetual children.
Dune explored several kinds of immortality:
-The SPICE extends human life to 300 years.
-BG know how to control their metabolism.
-Reverand Mothers transmit memories to successors. A person's memories would last forever. Dune II/III deals with the "possession problem" of exception strong memory personalities.
-Leto the Younger merges with wormlets and becomes immortal.
-The Theilexu perfect cloning and memory transmittal in themselves and select outsiders like Duncan Idaho.
-In the the Butlerian Jihad, the Cymeks and Coginators replace the mortal body by machine.
According to the CDC the average American has 1 in 3000 chance of dying from an accident per year. So people would live an average of 3,000 years, some much longer. Perhaps people would be more afraid of adventure, bad machinery, etc. if they thought it could kill them.
Though several teams have general approval to try space flights, they still have to file flight plans in advance for specific flights. Fat chance keepping that secret.
Reminds me of these tech-school on late night TV promises abundant jobs and high salaries after taking a couple easy programming courses.
On the other hand, I've seen the exception. A secretary at my last company evolved into an engineering-tech after learning about the work around her. Better than many of the college guys, though the lack of a degree did hurt during downturns.
This 2007 space telescope will observe a 100,000 stars of tiny region space for years to look for rare planetary eclipses of the parent star. They expect a couple hundred events based on best-guess statics of numbers of planets, orbital inclinations, sizes of planets and orbits, etc.
Venus makes its "twice in a century" such eclipse of our Sun on June 8, 2004.
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Apparently bad flash memory management shut down one of the 2004 Mars rovers a few weeks after it started. Something like the directory space node lists were being incorrectly updated. The rover appeared to use up all its memory, then tried to reboot over a 100 times over two days to fix the problem. NASA evently transmitted a patch to both rovers. The rovers use a version of realtime, non-virtual UNIX called VxWorks from Wind River. Its been well tested in spacecraft for a couple of decades, but never with a huge amount of flash memory.
Now would this have happened if the Rovers had a virtual memory UNIX?
If something like 50-75% of college students cheat on tests, term papers, programming projects, etc. (according to recent ABC TV special and the book "The Cheating Culture"), do they STOP cheating when they become professionals like journalists, scientists, politicians, etc.? I've read about the ten or major journalists fired for plagarism in the past couple years, and the scientists caught submitting false or plagarised results. However these numbers are less than one percent of the field.
Another data point is that 30% of resumes submitted to checkout services have significant distortions of education levels and experience. Almost 500 federal managers were found to have diploma mill degrees by a GAO study.
I was just wondering how students whom have a high cheat level become model professionals. Or is it we havent begun to detect cheating levels of adults?
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Marc Levoy at Stanford has scanned Michelangelo's statutes at sub-millimeter resolution. These generate billion polygon meshes at full resolution. Its a challange to render these. But when done properly they can seem rather real, and easier to view than in the museum. Other people are scanning other art works like the Parthenon friezes.
I remember 3D extensions to browsers circa 1995. They used a metafile format called "virtual reality markup language", which was a variant of the SGI Inventor 3D metafiles (simplification plus web keywords). In the 1990s both the slow net bandwidths and slow graphics engines were bottlenecks.
People made demos like the Xerox PARC multi-player maze chase game. But it was slow.
The two American rovers plus the ESA Orbitor have dual CCD systems for 3D. JPL periodicall released stereo panoramas. The ESA results are spectacular compared to the older altimeter-based 3D renderings.
Most systems render twice - at a viewing angle for each eye. Many 3D software (SGI-GL, OpenGL) has had this capability for 20 years.
The Denver artist DeAndrea specializes in life-casting or latex sculptures that have life-like skin. I've seen a few and they are very erie.
In a related development, NASA announced the discovery of magnesium sulfate at the Spirit site. This compound is marketed to consumers under the name "epsom salts".
One in eight US children and teenagers takes an anti-depressive or attention-improving amphetimine. There have been a slew of recent articles in newspapers debating whether this works. We create life-long customers for the drug companies early on in the US :-)
I should be so hypocritical. Alcohol, caffine, tobacco, and weed are widely used to improve mood. I consume two of these myself.
By the time one becomes a PhD, they should know what is a significant, doable problem in their field. Masters students or beginning PhD students oftern choose the wrong-size problem. It may be something triviable and already doen by someone else. Or something that may take decades and gigabucks. A right-size problem can be done in about two years. Sometimes an advisor lets the student learn the hard way by letting the student work on a wrong-size problem. The coursework and skillset difference between a masters and PhD is often not that great.
Print email receipts.
Periodically print your address list.
There is no mail service on the planet that can gaurantee it will always keep stuff.
Circuit design uses many toxic chemicals and some manufacturers have been sloppy about it. Some new fab processes use safer stuff like C02 and citris.
Thats where all those MIT and Harvard slackers work.
I've been using usenet since 1988, with an alias since 1997. With google that stuff seems to stick around forever. Some of the comments I wouldnt want my mother to read, but she could if clever enough.
I recall reading some site that snapshot and archive the web, but forgot where these were. I wonder if google archives?
Microsoft has something like $55 billion in cash and short-term investments, and another $15 of equities in other companies. They could weather a decade with that.
Some biologists have noticed that bipolar sex, multicellular differentiation, and preprogrammed death (at both the cellular level and whole organism) seemed to have evolved together. Only single cell life and the simplest multicellar organisms live forever until they are eaten, starve, or encounter an adverse environment. These organisms lack tissue differentiation and gender. Though they may mix genetic material.
Several scientists and scifi writers have speculated that such treatments may have to be applied relatively early in life, probably before puberty. By then the body may have used up too much of its regnerative capability. Or reproductive capability may negate immortality.
This has resulted in the "Neverland" scenario where immortals are perpetual children.
Dune explored several kinds of immortality:
-The SPICE extends human life to 300 years.
-BG know how to control their metabolism.
-Reverand Mothers transmit memories to successors. A person's memories would last forever. Dune II/III deals with the "possession problem" of exception strong memory personalities.
-Leto the Younger merges with wormlets and becomes immortal.
-The Theilexu perfect cloning and memory transmittal in themselves and select outsiders like Duncan Idaho.
-In the the Butlerian Jihad, the Cymeks and Coginators replace the mortal body by machine.
Each method has its pitfalls.
According to the CDC the average American has 1 in 3000 chance of dying from an accident per year. So people would live an average of 3,000 years, some much longer. Perhaps people would be more afraid of adventure, bad machinery, etc. if they thought it could kill them.
Though several teams have general approval to try space flights, they still have to file flight plans in advance for specific flights. Fat chance keepping that secret.
6000 mile an hour ~= 1/5,000,000 C.
Warp is the cube of light speed.
Fiber ethernet nstalled in 1986.
Reminds me of these tech-school on late night TV promises abundant jobs and high salaries after taking a couple easy programming courses.
On the other hand, I've seen the exception. A secretary at my last company evolved into an engineering-tech after learning about the work around her. Better than many of the college guys, though the lack of a degree did hurt during downturns.
'Nuf said.
This 2007 space telescope will observe a 100,000 stars of tiny region space for years to look for rare planetary eclipses of the parent star. They expect a couple hundred events based on best-guess statics of numbers of planets, orbital inclinations, sizes of planets and orbits, etc.
Venus makes its "twice in a century" such eclipse of our Sun on June 8, 2004.
Apparently bad flash memory management shut down one of the 2004 Mars rovers a few weeks after it started. Something like the directory space node lists were being incorrectly updated. The rover appeared to use up all its memory, then tried to reboot over a 100 times over two days to fix the problem. NASA evently transmitted a patch to both rovers. The rovers use a version of realtime, non-virtual UNIX called VxWorks from Wind River. Its been well tested in spacecraft for a couple of decades, but never with a huge amount of flash memory.
Now would this have happened if the Rovers had a virtual memory UNIX?
If something like 50-75% of college students cheat on tests, term papers, programming projects, etc. (according to recent ABC TV special and the book "The Cheating Culture"), do they STOP cheating when they become professionals like journalists, scientists, politicians, etc.? I've read about the ten or major journalists fired for plagarism in the past couple years, and the scientists caught submitting false or plagarised results. However these numbers are less than one percent of the field.
Another data point is that 30% of resumes submitted to checkout services have significant distortions of education levels and experience. Almost 500 federal managers were found to have diploma mill degrees by a GAO study.
I was just wondering how students whom have a high cheat level become model professionals. Or is it we havent begun to detect cheating levels of adults?