Thats pretty much a heresy whether you live in the US or in one of the former communist countries. Its rare that someone will get into power lying 100% of the time. More likely their philosophies will be a mixture of truths, half-truths, naive ideas, and deceptions.
A couple of interesting ideas include:
That the economy, history, and society can be scientifically analysed and scientifically improved. This was a heresy in the 19th century when these things were either considered an act of God, random, or too complicated for science.
That societal conflicts drive society. There always seem to be major divisions, whether between people of means, ethnics groups etc.
These constantly arise, develop, and sometimes resolve violently or non-violently.
There is a superiorly educated group that can guide society. M-L-M supported violent actions by this group, if necessary. Are fundamentalist Christians of Muslims any better than atheistic Commmunists in this regard?
It looks pretty bland. Just small rocks with occasional sand basins.
The horizon is 3km away, which is about 20-30 days of straight-line trips. Is there anything interesting over the horizon? They might go towards one of the grooves showing on the descent pictures. That could be an old water channel.
When the end comes for SCO it will be quick and drastic. Probably the entire management will resign in one day, with a bankruptcy soon following. The evidence is too flimsy and financial arrangements are too leveraged.
I cant predict the actual precipitating event or day, however.
"Break-even" can be as little as one or two per mailing. For example, the Nigerian scam customers are so infrequent, that they make national news. And they can make the Nigerian some money.
Length-of-day (LOD) data is an important dataset for geology and astronomy. The LOD fluctuates up to a millisecond on a daily basis, well within clock precision for the past several decades. LOD has cycles various months and decades long. These are thought tied to ocean and atmospheric circulation, earthquakes, the motion of the moon, and other unclear causes. LOD is related to similar wobble cycles of the earth's rotation axis.
The US Medal of Freedom is roughly equivalent to this kind of knighthood. Here is a list of recipients in the past ten years. Intel founder Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law) is only computer geek on the list.
This may be controversial, but I think Bill Gates will eventually receive this for his charity work.
For when text-books are too cumbersome in the field. I thought these were being used to some degree by the military already.
Like the books they are not intrinsically intelligent.
Shatner gives this speech to scifi loser-geeks in the Star Trek Convention parody episode 222 of Saturday Night Live. Considered one of the more memorable skits in SNL's history.
With supply of employees exceeding demand,
employers often send final candidate resumes
to verification firms. Corporate corruption
concerns are a motivation too. Easy things to check are degrees, years and names of previous companies (though you cant get a reason for seperation), credit worthiness, and criminal record.
I noticed a new form of information pollution this xmas. Several of my relatives were toting around laptops on which they had loaded thousands of digital slides and hours of digital videos of there summer vacations, pet antics, and other thrilling subjects. I realize the ubergeeks have had this capability for some years, but now it has perculated to the unwashed masses.
Some people are "voer wired", that is hooked to cellphones, beepers, internet, IM all the time. You dont need all that. You learn to choose what is important and what to discard.
It works better than ground attenna broadcasts, but there still are shadows. I rented an AM car in the Rockies. Tunnels have blackouts, though with a delay due to the buffer. Also steep valley walls (on the south) can block the signal.
It happens in marathons: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9158-200 3Oct23?language=printer.
Fatigue or some pain-killers like ibrofprofen can distort the sense of thirst.
Almost all of the high profile securities court cases in the past few years have been initiated by state prosecutors, particularly Spitzer of New York. Ditto for anti-trust, abandoned by the DOJ. George and Dick wont let any of their friends get hurt.
A lot of this off-shoring is being driven by the fear business consultants are instillling in their clients. Business consultants have to come up with the NEXT NEW THING or risk losing their clients. This year that happens to be "everyone is off-shoring, and you are screwed if you dont". Notice most of the off-shore scare stories are coming from business consultants like Forrester, Delloite-Touch, McKinsey, etc.
Consulting is mainly an idea industry. And there are lots of smart business guys in India and Asia. I waiting for the the last laugh when they outsource their own positions out of the country!!!!!
Even though general purpose CPUs approach the flop rate of GPUs, you cant feed the memory for many data intensive computations fast enough. A GPU may give you 12 or so bytes of data per cycle, where very few commodity CPU buses can do that.
Business consulting like Forrester, McKinsey, Deloitte-Touch, etc. does not require a physical presence in the USA. Hopefully all these people will be outsourced to Asia, where consultants are much cheaper.
This hype goes to the beginning of computers. The invention of compiled languages in the late 1950s were going to make computers "self-programming" (compared to assembly programming) and computer programming would become a dead profession.
Every major advance since then- structured programming, visual programmming, etc.- was supposed to do the same thing.
We have
*The Discovery Channel
*The Learning Channel
*National Geographic Channel
*about a quarter of PBS- NOVA, SciAm Frontiers,
Frontiers,
*some items on the Hostory Channel
and probably others I've overlooked.
Science journalism pretty much has to follow the general rules of drama:
*You need an engaging theme/conflict to drive a story,
*It has to have a proper beginning, development, and ending,
*It needs interesting human characters.
Often these "science dramas" take the form of mysteries to be solved, races between labs
or against time, quirky characters, and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
And no one else to talk to?
The rover camera software supports scans of 26K x 8K pixels. Thats what they mean by huge magnification capacity.
Thats pretty much a heresy whether you live in the US or in one of the former communist countries. Its rare that someone will get into power lying 100% of the time. More likely their philosophies will be a mixture of truths, half-truths, naive ideas, and deceptions.
A couple of interesting ideas include:
That the economy, history, and society can be scientifically analysed and scientifically improved. This was a heresy in the 19th century when these things were either considered an act of God, random, or too complicated for science.
That societal conflicts drive society. There always seem to be major divisions, whether between people of means, ethnics groups etc. These constantly arise, develop, and sometimes resolve violently or non-violently.
There is a superiorly educated group that can guide society. M-L-M supported violent actions by this group, if necessary. Are fundamentalist Christians of Muslims any better than atheistic Commmunists in this regard?
It looks pretty bland. Just small rocks with occasional sand basins.
The horizon is 3km away, which is about 20-30 days of straight-line trips. Is there anything interesting over the horizon? They might go towards one of the grooves showing on the descent pictures. That could be an old water channel.
When the end comes for SCO it will be quick and drastic. Probably the entire management will resign in one day, with a bankruptcy soon following. The evidence is too flimsy and financial arrangements are too leveraged.
I cant predict the actual precipitating event or day, however.
"Break-even" can be as little as one or two per mailing. For example, the Nigerian scam customers are so infrequent, that they make national news. And they can make the Nigerian some money.
Length-of-day (LOD) data is an important dataset for geology and astronomy. The LOD fluctuates up to a millisecond on a daily basis, well within clock precision for the past several decades. LOD has cycles various months and decades long. These are thought tied to ocean and atmospheric circulation, earthquakes, the motion of the moon, and other unclear causes. LOD is related to similar wobble cycles of the earth's rotation axis.
The US Medal of Freedom is roughly equivalent to this kind of knighthood. Here is a list of recipients in the past ten years. Intel founder Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law) is only computer geek on the list.
This may be controversial, but I think Bill Gates will eventually receive this for his charity work.
For when text-books are too cumbersome in the field. I thought these were being used to some degree by the military already.
Like the books they are not intrinsically intelligent.
Shatner gives this speech to scifi loser-geeks in the Star Trek Convention parody episode 222 of Saturday Night Live. Considered one of the more memorable skits in SNL's history.
With supply of employees exceeding demand, employers often send final candidate resumes to verification firms. Corporate corruption concerns are a motivation too. Easy things to check are degrees, years and names of previous companies (though you cant get a reason for seperation), credit worthiness, and criminal record.
I noticed a new form of information pollution this xmas. Several of my relatives were toting around laptops on which they had loaded thousands of digital slides and hours of digital videos of there summer vacations, pet antics, and other thrilling subjects. I realize the ubergeeks have had this capability for some years, but now it has perculated to the unwashed masses.
Some people are "voer wired", that is hooked to cellphones, beepers, internet, IM all the time. You dont need all that. You learn to choose what is important and what to discard.
It works better than ground attenna broadcasts, but there still are shadows. I rented an AM car in the Rockies. Tunnels have blackouts, though with a delay due to the buffer. Also steep valley walls (on the south) can block the signal.
It happens in marathons: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9158-200 3Oct23?language=printer.
Fatigue or some pain-killers like ibrofprofen can distort the sense of thirst.
Some health food store sell the additive BHT as an anti-oxidant. There are herbal verisons according to google.
Almost all of the high profile securities court cases in the past few years have been initiated by state prosecutors, particularly Spitzer of New York. Ditto for anti-trust, abandoned by the DOJ. George and Dick wont let any of their friends get hurt.
All that money for a road that ends at the ocean, then doesn't go anywhere!
A lot of this off-shoring is being driven by the fear business consultants are instillling in their clients. Business consultants have to come up with the NEXT NEW THING or risk losing their clients. This year that happens to be "everyone is off-shoring, and you are screwed if you dont". Notice most of the off-shore scare stories are coming from business consultants like Forrester, Delloite-Touch, McKinsey, etc.
Consulting is mainly an idea industry. And there are lots of smart business guys in India and Asia. I waiting for the the last laugh when they outsource their own positions out of the country!!!!!
Even though general purpose CPUs approach the flop rate of GPUs, you cant feed the memory for many data intensive computations fast enough. A GPU may give you 12 or so bytes of data per cycle, where very few commodity CPU buses can do that.
Business consulting like Forrester, McKinsey, Deloitte-Touch, etc. does not require a physical presence in the USA. Hopefully all these people will be outsourced to Asia, where consultants are much cheaper.
This hype goes to the beginning of computers. The invention of compiled languages in the late 1950s were going to make computers "self-programming" (compared to assembly programming) and computer programming would become a dead profession. Every major advance since then- structured programming, visual programmming, etc.- was supposed to do the same thing.
The two NASA probes have rovers.
Remember: only 1/3 of Mars missions are successful. Does the failure of the Japanese mission (out of power) count in the failure list?
I've used coffee, juices, even soft drinks to soften the cereal if I want it tha way.
It works.
We have
*The Discovery Channel
*The Learning Channel
*National Geographic Channel
*about a quarter of PBS- NOVA, SciAm Frontiers, Frontiers,
*some items on the Hostory Channel
and probably others I've overlooked.
Science journalism pretty much has to follow the general rules of drama:
*You need an engaging theme/conflict to drive a story,
*It has to have a proper beginning, development, and ending,
*It needs interesting human characters.
Often these "science dramas" take the form of mysteries to be solved, races between labs or against time, quirky characters, and so on.