Worse than the first livestock cloning rates.
Thats probably why success hasnt been reported before.
US labs suffer from high human egg costs. The going rate is about $4,000 per donor. It would cost a megabuck just for the egg cells.
Various interests tried to buy Disney for breakup in 1984. This was recounting in Storming the Magic Kingdom. Roy Disney managed to save the company then. His VC firm brought in the Eisner-Wells-Katzenerg team that ressurected Disney Co. for a while.
This would increase memory 32 times. Then memory
would last 256 days instead of 16. (The first rover went into an infinite re-boot loop when its file system claimed flash memory was full. Probably some garbage collection bug.)
(Rover memory is radiation hardened.)
The high end jobs pay about $11,000 a year in social security and medicare taxes (counting the employer half of the contribution). 3.3 million of these will off-source to locations where no tax is paid, just as the boomers are retiring.
Its been mentioned a few times in slashdot and elsewhere about the medical transcription service who outsourced to an Asian country. There was the dispute about pay and the contractee threatened to post the medical record SS# on the web. FYI- almost all medical database use your SS# as your id. (CA passed a law to change this, but not retroactively.)
Hospitals and doctors involved say they always contract out to bonded US transcibers. However these firms sub-contract out abroad as mush as 70% of their work.
My recollection of the talk is bit fuzzy, by Lasenby defines an extension to Cartesian analytical geometry consisting of the linear combinations of perpendicular, parallel and infinite unit vectors. Zeroing the the latter two gives conventional analytical geometry. Another choice of coefficients gives the hyperbolic geometry, best illustrated by some of Escher's olizard paintings. Lasenby claims if you give the cosmos this mixed geometric basis, with a slight non-Cartesian component, then that will explain the change in the Big Bang expansion rates.
On the other hand, some physicists claim "Geometry Equals Force", so augmenting geometry is creating new forces, and we are back to dark energy again.
On the other hand, my brain may have blown a fuse hearing these new ideas and I restated them incorrectly.
I may be showing a few gray hairs here, but revolutions in the sciences have occurred in my lifetime with scientists adapting fairly well. The first was the acceptance of Big bang in the late 1950s. Between 1927 and 1955 the Big Bang was just one of several "equally attractive alternative theories" which included the eternal-infinite universe and continuous creation of matter. The microwave background and the abundance of helium brought the big bang into the fore front.
In the 1960s the quark unification of subatomic particle became the predominate theory. Plus quantum electrodyanamics was verfied in high energy experiments to extremely high precision.
Also in the 1960s plate tectonics replaced an up-and-down explanation of geologic forces.
If the evidence suggests a more powerful theory, then physicists will revise their theories again. Science does not stay attached to incorrect theories (though block-headed individuals do).
The keynote speaker at the 2003 SIGGRAPH conference in San Diego was the British astrophysicist Anthony Lasenby. He claimed that a new kind of unified Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry could explain acceleration and deceleration in the Big Bang. He was talking at SIGGRAPH because his new unification of geometry is supposed to be more elegant for computer graphics modeling than the current homogeneous coordinates now used. He wrote a book about the geometry. But I have been unable to find a paper relating to the cosmological application on the web.
This is not the first time geometry has been used to unify and simplify physics. Previous examples are Galilean coordinates, special relativity, and general relativity.
Its rather fascinating as an exhaustive catalog of 1D cellular automata behavior. I was less impressed at the end material that claimed these could explain most everthing in the universe. The numerous footnotes are worth reading completely too.
Hes a loner, either by paranoic personality, or impatience with ordinary sub-200 IQ mortals. The conventional university-research establishment requires a minimum of cooperation, but he couldnt deal with that. The breaking point Caltech's IP contracts would only give him 1/3 the roylaties for his prototype of Mathematic. (In the pre dot.com era that was a fairly typical contract.) So he left to run his own company. His lack of citing other people's related wotk permeates NKS. This is unscientific. Even Isaac Newton, another paranoic genius who may have geneuine invented many ideas ex-nihlo said "If I've have seen further, it is because I've stood on the shoulder of giants."
Everything embeds computers these days. A cell-phone or digital camera may have as much computing power as the original Cray-1 (60 mega-ops per second). A computer is an appliance with a very general interface and/or one very hard to use. When you hide such beneath a simple, powerful interface such as in a digital camera, it ceases being a "computer" to the user.
This happened to autos from 1975 to 1995. Japan gained so much market share and became a first world country too costly to manufacture that it outsourced back to the USA.
Its not clear whether this applies to services like software. Cars became a commodity where costs like trans-oceanic shipping tipped against out-sourcing. Software doesnt have this kind of overhead.
Some people have speculated that Mars rotation axis is unstable and tips 90 degrees at times.
The equatorial region could be covered with H20/CO2 ice.
The moon causes the Earth's rotation axis to be
generally stable. The gravition force in the orbital plane and the equatorial buldge contribute to this stability.
The planet Uranus is an example of an unstable rotation axis. It is tipped over 80 degrees.
Celestial dynamics favor transfer of material from Mars to Earth 60 times over the reverse:
(1) Mars has 1/3rd the gravity and requires 1/9th the impact force;
(2) Mars has 1% the atmosphere (though could have had much more in the distant past);
(3) Mars is much closer to a source of meteors in the asteroid belt.
Also, Mars may have stablised geologically a couple hundred million years before the larger Earth did. It appears that life can arise in less than this time. Mars also died geologically much earlier than Earth too.
Its likely there is only one chemistry of life in the solar system due to the high interplanetary infection probability. There could have been thousands of rocks sent from Mars to Earth over the billions of years, considering we've found 18 Mars meteors on Earth without looking too hard.
Other places for life uch as the warmer cloud layers of Jupiter and the oceans of Europa and Titan could have been infected too over the eons.
Larry Summers got an economics S.B. from M.I.T., then moved down the street to Harvard for grad school and joined the faculty, along with various stints in the federal government.
Harvard has some sense then:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Using the stastics that 0.4% incidence of identical twins.
According to this , Star Trek computers have subspace switchign and communication, thereby operating much faster than light speed.
Worse than the first livestock cloning rates. Thats probably why success hasnt been reported before.
US labs suffer from high human egg costs. The going rate is about $4,000 per donor. It would cost a megabuck just for the egg cells.
Substitute the word God for InterNet and you these same arguments are both profound and goofy.
Various interests tried to buy Disney for breakup in 1984. This was recounting in Storming the Magic Kingdom. Roy Disney managed to save the company then. His VC firm brought in the Eisner-Wells-Katzenerg team that ressurected Disney Co. for a while.
This would increase memory 32 times. Then memory would last 256 days instead of 16. (The first rover went into an infinite re-boot loop when its file system claimed flash memory was full. Probably some garbage collection bug.) (Rover memory is radiation hardened.)
Was the most interesting statement in the History section of the same site. This refers to the Matthew Broedrick 1983 movie War Games.
What does that acronym spell? NASA!
The high end jobs pay about $11,000 a year in social security and medicare taxes (counting the employer half of the contribution). 3.3 million of these will off-source to locations where no tax is paid, just as the boomers are retiring.
And the result was 63,000 total job loss in all of 2003. Last five months of 2003 saw an increase.
:-)
Jan 2004 Presidents economic report predicts 2.7 million new jobs. So does that mean double the loss this year?
They've taken several pictures of the lander platform in true color in order to calibrate the camera.
Its been mentioned a few times in slashdot and elsewhere about the medical transcription service who outsourced to an Asian country. There was the dispute about pay and the contractee threatened to post the medical record SS# on the web. FYI- almost all medical database use your SS# as your id. (CA passed a law to change this, but not retroactively.)
Hospitals and doctors involved say they always contract out to bonded US transcibers. However these firms sub-contract out abroad as mush as 70% of their work.
My recollection of the talk is bit fuzzy, by Lasenby defines an extension to Cartesian analytical geometry consisting of the linear combinations of perpendicular, parallel and infinite unit vectors. Zeroing the the latter two gives conventional analytical geometry. Another choice of coefficients gives the hyperbolic geometry, best illustrated by some of Escher's olizard paintings. Lasenby claims if you give the cosmos this mixed geometric basis, with a slight non-Cartesian component, then that will explain the change in the Big Bang expansion rates.
On the other hand, some physicists claim "Geometry Equals Force", so augmenting geometry is creating new forces, and we are back to dark energy again.
On the other hand, my brain may have blown a fuse hearing these new ideas and I restated them incorrectly.
I may be showing a few gray hairs here, but revolutions in the sciences have occurred in my lifetime with scientists adapting fairly well. The first was the acceptance of Big bang in the late 1950s. Between 1927 and 1955 the Big Bang was just one of several "equally attractive alternative theories" which included the eternal-infinite universe and continuous creation of matter. The microwave background and the abundance of helium brought the big bang into the fore front.
In the 1960s the quark unification of subatomic particle became the predominate theory. Plus quantum electrodyanamics was verfied in high energy experiments to extremely high precision.
Also in the 1960s plate tectonics replaced an up-and-down explanation of geologic forces.
If the evidence suggests a more powerful theory, then physicists will revise their theories again. Science does not stay attached to incorrect theories (though block-headed individuals do).
The keynote speaker at the 2003 SIGGRAPH conference in San Diego was the British astrophysicist Anthony Lasenby. He claimed that a new kind of unified Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry could explain acceleration and deceleration in the Big Bang. He was talking at SIGGRAPH because his new unification of geometry is supposed to be more elegant for computer graphics modeling than the current homogeneous coordinates now used. He wrote a book about the geometry. But I have been unable to find a paper relating to the cosmological application on the web.
This is not the first time geometry has been used to unify and simplify physics. Previous examples are Galilean coordinates, special relativity, and general relativity.
Its rather fascinating as an exhaustive catalog of 1D cellular automata behavior. I was less impressed at the end material that claimed these could explain most everthing in the universe. The numerous footnotes are worth reading completely too.
Hes a loner, either by paranoic personality, or impatience with ordinary sub-200 IQ mortals. The conventional university-research establishment requires a minimum of cooperation, but he couldnt deal with that. The breaking point Caltech's IP contracts would only give him 1/3 the roylaties for his prototype of Mathematic. (In the pre dot.com era that was a fairly typical contract.) So he left to run his own company. His lack of citing other people's related wotk permeates NKS. This is unscientific. Even Isaac Newton, another paranoic genius who may have geneuine invented many ideas ex-nihlo said "If I've have seen further, it is because I've stood on the shoulder of giants."
I notice a fair number of books were sold the first couple of days in my local bookstore. The remainder just sat and sat and sat on the shelves.
Pirates of the Net
Everything embeds computers these days. A cell-phone or digital camera may have as much computing power as the original Cray-1 (60 mega-ops per second). A computer is an appliance with a very general interface and/or one very hard to use. When you hide such beneath a simple, powerful interface such as in a digital camera, it ceases being a "computer" to the user.
This happened to autos from 1975 to 1995. Japan gained so much market share and became a first world country too costly to manufacture that it outsourced back to the USA.
Its not clear whether this applies to services like software. Cars became a commodity where costs like trans-oceanic shipping tipped against out-sourcing. Software doesnt have this kind of overhead.
Some people have speculated that Mars rotation axis is unstable and tips 90 degrees at times. The equatorial region could be covered with H20/CO2 ice.
The moon causes the Earth's rotation axis to be generally stable. The gravition force in the orbital plane and the equatorial buldge contribute to this stability.
The planet Uranus is an example of an unstable rotation axis. It is tipped over 80 degrees.
Celestial dynamics favor transfer of material from Mars to Earth 60 times over the reverse:
(1) Mars has 1/3rd the gravity and requires 1/9th the impact force;
(2) Mars has 1% the atmosphere (though could have had much more in the distant past);
(3) Mars is much closer to a source of meteors in the asteroid belt.
Also, Mars may have stablised geologically a couple hundred million years before the larger Earth did. It appears that life can arise in less than this time. Mars also died geologically much earlier than Earth too.
Its likely there is only one chemistry of life in the solar system due to the high interplanetary infection probability. There could have been thousands of rocks sent from Mars to Earth over the billions of years, considering we've found 18 Mars meteors on Earth without looking too hard. Other places for life uch as the warmer cloud layers of Jupiter and the oceans of Europa and Titan could have been infected too over the eons.
I notices a few of these on the community channels. They're not illegal, but if they want to go after all potential terrorists.
Larry Summers got an economics S.B. from M.I.T., then moved down the street to Harvard for grad school and joined the faculty, along with various stints in the federal government. :-)
Harvard has some sense then