It seems that some of the brain's activity is devoted to INHIBITING functions. Sometimes people with limited brain functions display extraordinary capabilities, i.e. called idiot-savants- because regular inhibition is missing. A second example is that people with intentional or accidental lobotemies (e.g. press secretary James Brady) have trouble controling their emotions. Photographic memory may not be due to improved memory, but defective *forgetting*. So my hypothesis is that this memory cache could be improved by removing the appropriate inhibitory cells.
The Russians kept their lunar rover moving for almost a year, partly because it used nuclear power rather than the less reliable solar power. NASA's Galileo and Cassini probes also used nuclear due the weak sunlight in the out solar system and decade- long missions. These probes almost were not launched due to environomentalist fears that batteries would leak into earth's atmosphere in the event of an launch accident.
MIT prof Berners-Lee could have cashed in long ago as a web startup and gotten rich, but decided to develop his his dream without commercial taint. This $1.2 million prize, along with a few others he has won, helps compensate this sacrifice.
A note in American Scientist a few months back calculated that your genes either propagate to almost everybody in a country-size region in 30-40 generations (750-1000 years) or completely die out.
So almost everybody is related to early British royalty.
The only scientific verification I've seen of this is called the Ghengis Khan y-chomosome found in 8 percent of male Asians. This presumes all-male descent. So when counting mixed male-female descent, the population fraction is much higher. Being 30-some generations back, most Asians may have Genghis Khan genes, but only a fraction of a percent.
I remember people hawking "Year of the Network" from 1986 to when the InterNet finally took off in 1994.
Likewise Bill Gates was yapping about Windows between 1984 as a thinly disguised MacOS rip-off until it finally become usable on PCs in 1993 (v 3.1).
Lets see, first we have lots of tech IPOs on the schedule. Second we have an overheated stock market, especially in tech. So way not a comeback for geek worship?
They should have an award for the most prolific scifi writer. The 10 sequels to Dune, five by Frank Herbert (father) and the others by Brian Herbert (son) must be close to toppling Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series:-) This years entry Butlerian Jihad: The Machine Wars is OK but not great. Never fear, ther are six more sequels in the pipeline! (End of the BJ triology, Dune 7&8 fleshing out what happens after Heretics of Dune, A triology about Paul's Jihad.)
Cellular animation has been a round for centuries. People painted little animations on lamp shades and spun them. You can buy such in novelty stores today.
A popular 19th century lecture circuit entertainment was the scroll-movie narration. A scrolling of up to a mile long was unwound behind a narrator. Frequently these were travelogues of exotic places like the western US.
April Physics Today reports the Bush administration cut Messenger from the budget. This in order to concentrate on remaining missions like the Kuiper Pluto mission, Kepler planetary dectection, New Technology Space Telescope, and a few others. This is an advisory to Congress, which occasionally restores programs over administration objections.
NASA has many conflicting goals, a big bureaucracy, a risk-adverse culture. The Russian, Chinese, or private enterprise approach may be able to do this more cost-effectively than NASA, though probably not for as little as $3.5 billion.
I prefer the "evolutionary" private enterprise approach like as in the current x space contest. Start out with doable million dollar increments of financing and goals.
It turns out that mentally rehearsing something you are going to say tenses the muscles in vocal track. Some researchers (as reported recently in slashdot) are trying to measure and interpreted these muscle movements as a sub-vocal interface. so it may be possible to design an sub-vocal in the form of something like a necklace.
Also this has an use as a lie-detector, because people unconsciously sub-vocalize, unless they have been trained otherwise.
It seems like wherever I go these days- coffee houses, the bus, auditoriums, etc.- a large fraction of the population is "lost" in their electronic gizmos. This include music players, cell phones, PDAs, portables. Its kind of strange- all these people physically in one place, but mentally in completely separate worlds.
One of the subplots in Dune science fiction series was that humans got too dependent on their machines, particularly their computing machines, and had to fight a galactic war to free themselves. Two of the eleven Dune books so far are specificially about this.
I read someone like 90% of the US with taxpayer IDs either get deductions (mortgage, childcare, etc) or a government check (social security, dependent children). There are like a dozen for education alone. So immense complexitry makes everyone feel like their getting more from the governement. Just look at each presidential candidate promising more of these.
More like $50-$60 if you Froggle it (shop around). Cheaper than most any other sport- skiing, biking, golfing, etc.
Not surprisingly I find food costs to far exceed shoe costs. An hour long session of running may cost you fifty cents in amortized shoe liftime, but also an extra meal (500-1000 kcal) compared to not running. The cost of that food is much more than the shoe.
Normally I dont like lawyers. However if the employer threatens to terminate you "with cause", thereby making you ineligible for unemployment, then bring suit. Then it will be much cheaper for the company to lay you off properly rather than to fight a court case. It helps if you have additional cirumstances- over 40, not a white male, been having health problems from overworks, etc.
Then a couple could publicly answer to what has long been rumored to have been secretly tested: what is a zero-gee sex like? What is a zero-gee orgasm like? Can you "do it" without pushing each other apart? Does cumming have a enough force to push a man backwards? Does zero-gee make it bigger? faster? more explosive? Do the hooters stop sagging and always point outwards? Does the Book of Tantra need several more chapters for zero-gee techniques?
It boggles the mind! You could probably raise the $40 mil from curious subscribers alone.
It seems like when I go out to a public space like a coffee house, park, urban mall, concert, etc.,
many people seemed be plugged into some electronic device and semi-oblivious to their surroundings. These devices include cell phones, headphone music, PDAs, portable computers, PDAs, etc. People seemed to entranced by their electonic "personal realities". It can seem strange at times. Its sometimes difficult to tell apart the borgified people from the deranged street people doing the same things without electronic aids. And the earlier generations complained about TV turning people into zombies.
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It seems that some of the brain's activity is devoted to INHIBITING functions. Sometimes people with limited brain functions display extraordinary capabilities, i.e. called idiot-savants- because regular inhibition is missing. A second example is that people with intentional or accidental lobotemies (e.g. press secretary James Brady) have trouble controling their emotions. Photographic memory may not be due to improved memory, but defective *forgetting*. So my hypothesis is that this memory cache could be improved by removing the appropriate inhibitory cells.
I recall Cray be purchased for hundreds of millions then sold [ to Tera ] for tens of millions.
The Russians kept their lunar rover moving for almost a year, partly because it used nuclear power rather than the less reliable solar power. NASA's Galileo and Cassini probes also used nuclear due the weak sunlight in the out solar system and decade- long missions. These probes almost were not launched due to environomentalist fears that batteries would leak into earth's atmosphere in the event of an launch accident.
When Bush saw the the Martian pictures of the desert, he thought NASA was helping him in Iraq. Then he ordered NASA to stay longer there!
Saturn's moon Titan is thought to be covered with a petroleum ocean. A probe will drop into it from the Casini orbiter in January 2005.
MIT prof Berners-Lee could have cashed in long ago as a web startup and gotten rich, but decided to develop his his dream without commercial taint. This $1.2 million prize, along with a few others he has won, helps compensate this sacrifice.
A note in American Scientist a few months back calculated that your genes either propagate to almost everybody in a country-size region in 30-40 generations (750-1000 years) or completely die out. So almost everybody is related to early British royalty.
:-)
The only scientific verification I've seen of this is called the Ghengis Khan y-chomosome found in 8 percent of male Asians. This presumes all-male descent. So when counting mixed male-female descent, the population fraction is much higher. Being 30-some generations back, most Asians may have Genghis Khan genes, but only a fraction of a percent.
Got to get to work in spreading my genes
I remember people hawking "Year of the Network" from 1986 to when the InterNet finally took off in 1994.
Likewise Bill Gates was yapping about Windows between 1984 as a thinly disguised MacOS rip-off until it finally become usable on PCs in 1993 (v 3.1).
Lets see, first we have lots of tech IPOs on the schedule. Second we have an overheated stock market, especially in tech. So way not a comeback for geek worship?
They should have an award for the most prolific scifi writer. The 10 sequels to Dune, five by Frank Herbert (father) and the others by Brian Herbert (son) must be close to toppling Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series :-) This years entry Butlerian Jihad: The Machine Wars is OK but not great. Never fear, ther are six more sequels in the pipeline! (End of the BJ triology, Dune 7&8 fleshing out what happens after Heretics of Dune, A triology about Paul's Jihad.)
IMDB.com doesnt list the cast yet, but I recall rumors Mel Gibson was being considered for Montag.
Cellular animation has been a round for centuries. People painted little animations on lamp shades and spun them. You can buy such in novelty stores today.
A popular 19th century lecture circuit entertainment was the scroll-movie narration. A scrolling of up to a mile long was unwound behind a narrator. Frequently these were travelogues of exotic places like the western US.
April Physics Today reports the Bush administration cut Messenger from the budget. This in order to concentrate on remaining missions like the Kuiper Pluto mission, Kepler planetary dectection, New Technology Space Telescope, and a few others. This is an advisory to Congress, which occasionally restores programs over administration objections.
NASA has many conflicting goals, a big bureaucracy, a risk-adverse culture. The Russian, Chinese, or private enterprise approach may be able to do this more cost-effectively than NASA, though probably not for as little as $3.5 billion.
I prefer the "evolutionary" private enterprise approach like as in the current x space contest. Start out with doable million dollar increments of financing and goals.
It turns out that mentally rehearsing something you are going to say tenses the muscles in vocal track. Some researchers (as reported recently in slashdot) are trying to measure and interpreted these muscle movements as a sub-vocal interface. so it may be possible to design an sub-vocal in the form of something like a necklace.
Also this has an use as a lie-detector, because people unconsciously sub-vocalize, unless they have been trained otherwise.
It seems like wherever I go these days- coffee houses, the bus, auditoriums, etc.- a large fraction of the population is "lost" in their electronic gizmos. This include music players, cell phones, PDAs, portables. Its kind of strange- all these people physically in one place, but mentally in completely separate worlds.
One of the subplots in Dune science fiction series was that humans got too dependent on their machines, particularly their computing machines, and had to fight a galactic war to free themselves. Two of the eleven Dune books so far are specificially about this.
Now I know why my DVD of the Passion of the Christ is only 5 minutes long. The Walmart DVD cut out all the violent pieces.
I read someone like 90% of the US with taxpayer IDs either get deductions (mortgage, childcare, etc) or a government check (social security, dependent children). There are like a dozen for education alone. So immense complexitry makes everyone feel like their getting more from the governement. Just look at each presidential candidate promising more of these.
More like $50-$60 if you Froggle it (shop around). Cheaper than most any other sport- skiing, biking, golfing, etc.
Not surprisingly I find food costs to far exceed shoe costs. An hour long session of running may cost you fifty cents in amortized shoe liftime, but also an extra meal (500-1000 kcal) compared to not running. The cost of that food is much more than the shoe.
It is so easy to monitor InterNet plain text communications, that I ALWAYS presume its been done since the start of the Net.
Normally I dont like lawyers. However if the employer threatens to terminate you "with cause", thereby making you ineligible for unemployment, then bring suit. Then it will be much cheaper for the company to lay you off properly rather than to fight a court case. It helps if you have additional cirumstances- over 40, not a white male, been having health problems from overworks, etc.
THe circle is so big, that it probably encompasses a whole zip code. There may be dozens of subscribers living er urban zip code.
Then a couple could publicly answer to what has long been rumored to have been secretly tested: what is a zero-gee sex like? What is a zero-gee orgasm like? Can you "do it" without pushing each other apart? Does cumming have a enough force to push a man backwards? Does zero-gee make it bigger? faster? more explosive? Do the hooters stop sagging and always point outwards? Does the Book of Tantra need several more chapters for zero-gee techniques?
It boggles the mind! You could probably raise the $40 mil from curious subscribers alone.
It seems like when I go out to a public space like a coffee house, park, urban mall, concert, etc., many people seemed be plugged into some electronic device and semi-oblivious to their surroundings. These devices include cell phones, headphone music, PDAs, portable computers, PDAs, etc. People seemed to entranced by their electonic "personal realities". It can seem strange at times. Its sometimes difficult to tell apart the borgified people from the deranged street people doing the same things without electronic aids. And the earlier generations complained about TV turning people into zombies.