One of the most basic tenants of the scientific method is the verification of scientific knowledge by by reproducable publication of data and methods. However the scientific journal - university library cabal is thwarting this goal by making scientific publications LESS AND LESS available by expensive prices, subscriptions, and lack of access to university libraries by outsiders. For example, the most widely read genral science publications Sience and Nature are online. However most content is by paid subscription only (universities often have blanket subscriptions). Even so, this is pretty open compared to journals in the medical sciences where online access is rare and prices astronomical.
Try a UNIX utility like "strings" on your TT tax return and you'll see info you wish others couldnt see like your SS number. This means that any spy-ware could peruse your TT files on disk and steal your identity. Spy-ware is increasingly sneaking onto my disk through IE holes and spoof ads.
Chinese-American astronaut Ed Lu has been on the International Space Station since April and will be returning later this month in a Soyuz capsule. You can read his blog here .
For a mature commercial product much time will
be spent
-Negotiating the design of the product. This involve trips.
-Team planning time, if anyone else works on the product.
-Documentation and training the users.
-Design changes.
-Fixing bugs. Sometimes "missing features" are considered bugs.
Some useful software products may have a life cycle of 5-10 years or more. The initial coding time becomes a small fraction of the effort.
For short (less than month), single-person consulting products I build in 50% non-coding time.
More like 75% for a more complex project.
I do what Star Trek Scotty does: double or quadruple my personal estimates. You could build-in an early-completion bonus (common in construction projects). Early-completion is rare in software projects, especially version 1.0s.
Despite two recent wars killing lots of US soldiers, plus 12+ month tours in 130-degree desert dirt, the US army and reserves are having a record recruiting year. Its not pure patriotism, but economics. Most recruits said they need a steady job. Have to be under 35 to join.
For historical reasons, the biomedical engineering degree got attached to electrical engineering. Could as well gone with biology, mech eng, or material science. If a specialty isnt large enough to stand on its own as a department, its folded into some other department.
It was a grad students MS thesis project in 1985. It was the graphics part of a distributed Unix system called W. MIT was looking for a starting point for it in-house system and used W & X.
I think twice about buying a car in my state because the sales tax adds $1,000 - $2,000.
Anyone figure out how to buy one without taxes over the net? The net car services usually relay you to a local dealer.
Mainly because amazon.com already has system in place for implementing it (based on delivery zip code). More business might join the Amazon storefront in order to use the tax service.
Columbia was mostly a science experiment mission.
I heard a talk a month ago from the Principal Investigators of two experiments. Because these both had cameras and telemetry, they each returned 90% of their results. They were hoping to retrieve the apparatus for final analysis, but the pieces recovered after the accident weren't too useful.
However, one of the experiment had got 5% additional results when a disk platter was forensically read after the accident.
Both investigators said the astronauts were crucial to the success of their experiments. Although they were supposed to be mostly automatic, Murphy's law intervened, and the astronauts had to help. One astronaut even devoted several hours of her recreation time to fixing a busted valve (The ground crew had stayed up 96 hours straight working on a solution).
All of the ground material was impounded for two months after the accident to rule our experimental causes of the accident.
One result is of immediate use to NASA. It was a study of extinguishing fires with a new kind of water mist that could only be studied in microgravity. Since the prediction was successful, this means that water-based extinguishers could replace chemical extinguishers in space and on earth in more situations.
Overall 60% of the results on the entire missionwere successfully returned. Slightly more may be retrieved through forensics.
I was surprised to hear this high a success.
It was not decided yet whether there would be a collective publication of their successful results as a memorial to the mission. They will of course publish in their respective journals.
The Altair 8800, Jan 1975, is considered the first PC built for the hobby market.
Before that hobbyists would hack PDP/8s or other minis. These minis cost a good fraction of year's salary at the time. The other approach- which I tried- was build your own microcomputer: add a keybad, keybaord, tape punch, BIOS, TV, etc.
The first Altair just had dip switches and LEDs for the data and address register.
People then added tape punches, keypads, keyboards, TV, etc. Someone Harvard dropout even wrote a BASIC in assembly language that was tape-punched in.
The first "full PC" with a monitor, keyboard, and OS was Radio Shack's TR-80. At thei time I deplored: "Whats the world coming to when people can even build their own PCs anymore?"
These events are fairly accurately recorded, though simplified, in Mark Stephen's documentary "Revenge of the Nerds; Part 1".
Also in Stephen Levy's "Hackers" gave more of a an east coast perspective.
The early (19th century) social scientists, particularly economists, thought the human social condition could be scientifically distilled into algorithms which could be used for the betterment of mankind. Many people still believe this to be possible to some degree.
This slashdot topic looks a "scientific history" as a new idea, when actually many aspect have been investigated in the past 2-3 centuries. The $64 trillion question is why do some these ideas go horribly wrong when promoted under some political banner? (free-market, socialism, Marxism) And when will we find one that works?
Hegel introduced the idea of social conflict as the engine of history.
Marx added economic forces to this idea.
Marx also claimed that some "wise men" could force society in the "right direction", but much of the 20th century was failures of his followers.
The effects of global warming are not uniformly spread around the world. The arctic, both land and sea, are clearly warming. The equatorial areas may not be warming as much. The antarctic shows both warming and cooling: cooling in the the interior and warming.melting at the edges. Being a large, mountainous land mass complicates the climate there.
The current stock market rise looks like 1999-2000 all over again. Several sites have remarked the trading patterns look like mostly day-traders.
The Nasdaq-100 QQQ had a trailing P/E of 77 on Sept 4 according to Motley Fool. (Its higher today.) A reasonable P/E is around 15.
Ride the roller-coaster up.
Ride the roller-coaster down.
(Everyone thinks they'll be able to get off in time this time:-)
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One of the most basic tenants of the scientific method is the verification of scientific knowledge by by reproducable publication of data and methods. However the scientific journal - university library cabal is thwarting this goal by making scientific publications LESS AND LESS available by expensive prices, subscriptions, and lack of access to university libraries by outsiders. For example, the most widely read genral science publications Sience and Nature are online. However most content is by paid subscription only (universities often have blanket subscriptions). Even so, this is pretty open compared to journals in the medical sciences where online access is rare and prices astronomical.
Try a UNIX utility like "strings" on your TT tax return and you'll see info you wish others couldnt see like your SS number. This means that any spy-ware could peruse your TT files on disk and steal your identity. Spy-ware is increasingly sneaking onto my disk through IE holes and spoof ads.
Chinese-American astronaut Ed Lu has been on the International Space Station since April and will be returning later this month in a Soyuz capsule. You can read his blog here .
In India it is "mass programming".
Everyone in one big room.
Pair programming is realtively sedate then.
For a mature commercial product much time will be spent
-Negotiating the design of the product. This involve trips.
-Team planning time, if anyone else works on the product.
-Documentation and training the users.
-Design changes.
-Fixing bugs. Sometimes "missing features" are considered bugs.
Some useful software products may have a life cycle of 5-10 years or more. The initial coding time becomes a small fraction of the effort.
For short (less than month), single-person consulting products I build in 50% non-coding time. More like 75% for a more complex project.
I do what Star Trek Scotty does: double or quadruple my personal estimates. You could build-in an early-completion bonus (common in construction projects). Early-completion is rare in software projects, especially version 1.0s.
If spammers had to wade through millions of false requests to buy their products, then they'd give up too.
Despite two recent wars killing lots of US soldiers, plus 12+ month tours in 130-degree desert dirt, the US army and reserves are having a record recruiting year. Its not pure patriotism, but economics. Most recruits said they need a steady job. Have to be under 35 to join.
His "computer superhighway" bill in the late 1980s finnnced the connection of the miltary network with several disaparate academic networks.
For historical reasons, the biomedical engineering degree got attached to electrical engineering. Could as well gone with biology, mech eng, or material science. If a specialty isnt large enough to stand on its own as a department, its folded into some other department.
They could use a more robust file system then. It seems like postings within the past 48 have headers, but google dies when accessing the body.
It was a grad students MS thesis project in 1985. It was the graphics part of a distributed Unix system called W. MIT was looking for a starting point for it in-house system and used W & X.
Should we go back to the old naming convention then?
I think twice about buying a car in my state because the sales tax adds $1,000 - $2,000. Anyone figure out how to buy one without taxes over the net? The net car services usually relay you to a local dealer.
Mainly because amazon.com already has system in place for implementing it (based on delivery zip code). More business might join the Amazon storefront in order to use the tax service.
Columbia was mostly a science experiment mission. I heard a talk a month ago from the Principal Investigators of two experiments. Because these both had cameras and telemetry, they each returned 90% of their results. They were hoping to retrieve the apparatus for final analysis, but the pieces recovered after the accident weren't too useful. However, one of the experiment had got 5% additional results when a disk platter was forensically read after the accident.
Both investigators said the astronauts were crucial to the success of their experiments. Although they were supposed to be mostly automatic, Murphy's law intervened, and the astronauts had to help. One astronaut even devoted several hours of her recreation time to fixing a busted valve (The ground crew had stayed up 96 hours straight working on a solution). All of the ground material was impounded for two months after the accident to rule our experimental causes of the accident.
One result is of immediate use to NASA. It was a study of extinguishing fires with a new kind of water mist that could only be studied in microgravity. Since the prediction was successful, this means that water-based extinguishers could replace chemical extinguishers in space and on earth in more situations.
Overall 60% of the results on the entire missionwere successfully returned. Slightly more may be retrieved through forensics. I was surprised to hear this high a success.
It was not decided yet whether there would be a collective publication of their successful results as a memorial to the mission. They will of course publish in their respective journals.
Obviously if they refuse to believe MS has security problems, I seriously doubt the integrity of any of their products and services.
Befoe the movie Secondhand Lions today. On www.theonering.net on Monday.
The Altair 8800, Jan 1975, is considered the first PC built for the hobby market. Before that hobbyists would hack PDP/8s or other minis. These minis cost a good fraction of year's salary at the time. The other approach- which I tried- was build your own microcomputer: add a keybad, keybaord, tape punch, BIOS, TV, etc.
The first Altair just had dip switches and LEDs for the data and address register. People then added tape punches, keypads, keyboards, TV, etc. Someone Harvard dropout even wrote a BASIC in assembly language that was tape-punched in.
The first "full PC" with a monitor, keyboard, and OS was Radio Shack's TR-80. At thei time I deplored: "Whats the world coming to when people can even build their own PCs anymore?"
These events are fairly accurately recorded, though simplified, in Mark Stephen's documentary "Revenge of the Nerds; Part 1". Also in Stephen Levy's "Hackers" gave more of a an east coast perspective.
Read about it here It had trig and RPN and cost $399 in the 1970s.
The early (19th century) social scientists, particularly economists, thought the human social condition could be scientifically distilled into algorithms which could be used for the betterment of mankind. Many people still believe this to be possible to some degree.
This slashdot topic looks a "scientific history" as a new idea, when actually many aspect have been investigated in the past 2-3 centuries. The $64 trillion question is why do some these ideas go horribly wrong when promoted under some political banner? (free-market, socialism, Marxism) And when will we find one that works?
Hegel introduced the idea of social conflict as the engine of history. Marx added economic forces to this idea. Marx also claimed that some "wise men" could force society in the "right direction", but much of the 20th century was failures of his followers.
The effects of global warming are not uniformly spread around the world. The arctic, both land and sea, are clearly warming. The equatorial areas may not be warming as much. The antarctic shows both warming and cooling: cooling in the the interior and warming.melting at the edges. Being a large, mountainous land mass complicates the climate there.
You can live in caves and pee outside easily too.
But very few people want to do that all the time.
IE hijacks my web requests sometimes.
Thats what I call a smart search engine!
The current stock market rise looks like 1999-2000 all over again. Several sites have remarked the trading patterns look like mostly day-traders. The Nasdaq-100 QQQ had a trailing P/E of 77 on Sept 4 according to Motley Fool. (Its higher today.) A reasonable P/E is around 15.
:-)
Ride the roller-coaster up.
Ride the roller-coaster down.
(Everyone thinks they'll be able to get off in time this time