Agreed. Most insitutional accounts required your real name and the "rn" package put it into the usenet.
To be fair google, the biggest usenet archiver, has a procedure for hiding ancient posts. I think it is tedious, especially if you have hundreds or thousands.
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Tree-hugging Euro-Americans no longer have the stomach to finance build cutting edge technology. The US never built its super-sonic plane due to concern about destoying the ozone. (A US rocket launch reates a ozone hole for about a half-day.)
China has both the will and finances to pursue advance science project. Look at their nascent space program. China's CDP is the worlds second largest, if you properly valuate their currency (see the Big Mac index). It is growing torridly and could pass the USA for number one by 2030.
A true-super is when you through all your resources into computer and make something as fast as possible. These are typically space and power consumption hogs. After a new line of supers has been investigated for a while, then a slightly slower, but much resource friendly version is produced. By the time the 2-teraflop Blues ship, frontier supercomputing will be in the 100 gflop range.
We went through this process in the late 1980s with the cray-clones, crayettes, etc. You got like a fifth of a power of Cray (i.e. a two year old Cray) for like 1/20th the price. A Cray required a custom refirigeration unit, while Crayettes ran in ordinary computer rooms.
I started posting usenet in the late 1980s. These g*dd*mn things are still are still on the net. I was less guarded at that time. Everyone *knew* them becase disk space ws so scare that usenet postings would disappear in 7-14 days.
The disabling all electric devices and motors by an alien from outer space was the gave the title to this 1950s movie, consider among the best in the genre. The alien could show more discrimination in turning off devices than an e-bomb. The movie was considered a metaphor for the cold war, where the alien represented a powerful Soviet Union.
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto"
College applications now ask if you have convicted of a crime. Ac ouple of people offered admission to Harvard have had their admissions rescinded after a crime has been discovered. (One for a juvenile murder; another for plagarism.)
All these free neutrons will convert the metals in the surrounding electronics and containment into radioactive isotopes. Some of these are nastier than fission products to deal with.
I dont think any writer predicted that every house would have dozens of computers (cars, appliance, personal). Manywrters predicted artificial intelligence coups (Dick's terminator). Asimov predicted mind-withering dependence on PDAs.
The director is given some hours of observation time to distribute outside the normal proposal channel. These have been distibuted to school children competitions, amateurs, sudden extraodrinary astronomical events, etc. I havent heard of auctions.
Its amusing to anti-spam these guys. However, organized crime is still that, no matter what name you call it. Money attracts violence. Be careful how you play the game.
Research papers assume a certain background knowledge of the subject. Thats why they may not be easy to understand.
Teaching reformats these ideas in a more digestable progression.
However, it can be fascinating to go back to the original papers to see who and what influenced the scientist's(s') thoughts. What we accept as dogma now may not have been clear-cut back then.
Brute force sequencing of mouse genome finds about 30,000 mouse genes- the same as humans. However, bottom up DNA manufacture from proteins finds about 60,000 coding genes (cDNA). Not as simple as thought.
The cheap ones use LCD technology, while the expensive ones use CCD. LCD can be manufactured on conventional chip lines which makes them very cheap, like a buck these days. WebCams, CellPhoneCams, ToyCams, etc. use the cheap LCD. They dont have the contrast and color evenness of CCD. CCD is used in professional cameras, broadcast TV, cinematic TV, telescopes, etc.
You just dont muck around with businesses like gambling and expect to get away with it. Once their identities are discovered, they'll be pushing up daisies.
Every time we return to Mars (successfully) we learn more because the instruments are modern. The 2001 photo orbiter has 20 times the resolution of the 1976 orbiter. This permitted seeing layering in valleys, indicative of water action. The 2008 orbiter will has five times better resolution for learning more geology.
The Moon has only been revisited twice since the 1960s, so there is much to learn with improved instruments. Especially since only eight locations have been sampled by US and Soviet expeditions. I dont care whether NASA, the ESA or China does this, as long as somebody does.
The better computer graphics schools that train students for film of video games require a heavy dose of conventional arts in their programs. Students need to know about design, color, lighting, media, etc. They also need to know about how to analysis and write stories, realistic and funny characters, mythic heros, and so on. Because the computer graphics alone is only part of the the entire process.
This commonly used technique has been in use for about 15 years. Its called cartoon-realistic computer animation (CRCA). It uses different mathematical projections than 3D, but shares color and lighting techniques. Disney has talked about this several times at computer conferences. Its earliest example I recall is the talking magic carpet in Aladdin. The wildebest stampede in Lion King (copied in Mulan, Dinosaur, and others) is another example. Large parts of recent Dreamworks cartons are CRCA.
My thesis work was patented by another company.
However, no one, myself, my school or my current company wants to fight it because the lawyers fees would be at least $50K. They would only fight it if it would have broguht them more than mount of profit.
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Pixar mentioned that number for a few of their movies.
Agreed. Most insitutional accounts required your real name and the "rn" package put it into the usenet.
To be fair google, the biggest usenet archiver, has a procedure for hiding ancient posts. I think it is tedious, especially if you have hundreds or thousands.
Tree-hugging Euro-Americans no longer have the stomach to finance build cutting edge technology. The US never built its super-sonic plane due to concern about destoying the ozone. (A US rocket launch reates a ozone hole for about a half-day.)
China has both the will and finances to pursue advance science project. Look at their nascent space program. China's CDP is the worlds second largest, if you properly valuate their currency (see the Big Mac index). It is growing torridly and could pass the USA for number one by 2030.
A true-super is when you through all your resources into computer and make something as fast as possible. These are typically space and power consumption hogs. After a new line of supers has been investigated for a while, then a slightly slower, but much resource friendly version is produced. By the time the 2-teraflop Blues ship, frontier supercomputing will be in the 100 gflop range.
We went through this process in the late 1980s with the cray-clones, crayettes, etc. You got like a fifth of a power of Cray (i.e. a two year old Cray) for like 1/20th the price. A Cray required a custom refirigeration unit, while Crayettes ran in ordinary computer rooms.
I started posting usenet in the late 1980s. These g*dd*mn things are still are still on the net. I was less guarded at that time. Everyone *knew* them becase disk space ws so scare that usenet postings would disappear in 7-14 days.
The disabling all electric devices and motors by an alien from outer space was the gave the title to this 1950s movie, consider among the best in the genre. The alien could show more discrimination in turning off devices than an e-bomb. The movie was considered a metaphor for the cold war, where the alien represented a powerful Soviet Union.
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto"
College applications now ask if you have convicted of a crime. Ac ouple of people offered admission to Harvard have had their admissions rescinded after a crime has been discovered. (One for a juvenile murder; another for plagarism.)
Sure it matters for such a poor country.
All these free neutrons will convert the metals in the surrounding electronics and containment into radioactive isotopes. Some of these are nastier than fission products to deal with.
They can only seem to copy, not innovate.
Some bullies continue on into the adult life. You have street gangs, obnoxious neighbors, CEOs and presidental cabinets, to name a few.
Many people anticipated smart supercomputers like HAL in 2001 or robots. Will these ever occur?
I dont think any writer predicted that every house would have dozens of computers (cars, appliance, personal). Manywrters predicted artificial intelligence coups (Dick's terminator). Asimov predicted mind-withering dependence on PDAs.
Web pages, phone calls, some IMs and chat rooms leave a trail to identify the culprit. Its harder to be truely anonymous online.
The director is given some hours of observation time to distribute outside the normal proposal channel. These have been distibuted to school children competitions, amateurs, sudden extraodrinary astronomical events, etc. I havent heard of auctions.
Its amusing to anti-spam these guys. However, organized crime is still that, no matter what name you call it. Money attracts violence. Be careful how you play the game.
Research papers assume a certain background knowledge of the subject. Thats why they may not be easy to understand.
Teaching reformats these ideas in a more digestable progression. However, it can be fascinating to go back to the original papers to see who and what influenced the scientist's(s') thoughts. What we accept as dogma now may not have been clear-cut back then.
Brute force sequencing of mouse genome finds about 30,000 mouse genes- the same as humans. However, bottom up DNA manufacture from proteins finds about 60,000 coding genes (cDNA). Not as simple as thought.
The cheap ones use LCD technology, while the expensive ones use CCD. LCD can be manufactured on conventional chip lines which makes them very cheap, like a buck these days. WebCams, CellPhoneCams, ToyCams, etc. use the cheap LCD. They dont have the contrast and color evenness of CCD. CCD is used in professional cameras, broadcast TV, cinematic TV, telescopes, etc.
You just dont muck around with businesses like gambling and expect to get away with it. Once their identities are discovered, they'll be pushing up daisies.
Every time we return to Mars (successfully) we learn more because the instruments are modern. The 2001 photo orbiter has 20 times the resolution of the 1976 orbiter. This permitted seeing layering in valleys, indicative of water action. The 2008 orbiter will has five times better resolution for learning more geology.
The Moon has only been revisited twice since the 1960s, so there is much to learn with improved instruments. Especially since only eight locations have been sampled by US and Soviet expeditions. I dont care whether NASA, the ESA or China does this, as long as somebody does.
This goal was attempted during the much ballyhooed Y2K fix. But it was still easier to repair the old programs rather than migrate them.
The better computer graphics schools that train students for film of video games require a heavy dose of conventional arts in their programs. Students need to know about design, color, lighting, media, etc. They also need to know about how to analysis and write stories, realistic and funny characters, mythic heros, and so on. Because the computer graphics alone is only part of the the entire process.
This commonly used technique has been in use for about 15 years. Its called cartoon-realistic computer animation (CRCA). It uses different mathematical projections than 3D, but shares color and lighting techniques. Disney has talked about this several times at computer conferences. Its earliest example I recall is the talking magic carpet in Aladdin. The wildebest stampede in Lion King (copied in Mulan, Dinosaur, and others) is another example. Large parts of recent Dreamworks cartons are CRCA.
My thesis work was patented by another company. However, no one, myself, my school or my current company wants to fight it because the lawyers fees would be at least $50K. They would only fight it if it would have broguht them more than mount of profit.