The record holder is 35 teras Japan Earth Simulator. IBM ASCII-Q will be 100 teras soon. NOAA turned on a 7.3 tera compter today (NY Times). Last week the DOE hooked together a bunch of game-cubes to make a $50K tera computer.
The European Space Agency successfully launched theirs last Monday on a Russian rocket. Theirs cost $80 million compared to the US $400 million per craft. The Euros just have a robotic arm, while the Yanks use artificially intelligent rovers.
There is a low fuel (cheap) path to Mars in a two month window every 2.5 years. So this is why you see a flurry of launches. With a 40% success rate over the decades- 41 of 66 Mars craft didnt make it- hopefully at least one of these three will succeed. Lots of interesting craft planned for 2005 and 2008 launches.
I remember when the two Steves would bring their Apple prototypes to the Stanford Linear Accelerator auditorium to demonstrate them. At a time when hackers where programming blinking light patterns on PDPs and Altair consoles, the two Steves figured out how to hook up a monitor and keyboard (disks came much later). Some of this is captured in the Revenge of the Nerds, part I.
To some degree the former colonies of England and America will always have an advantage. These would be mainly India, the Philipines, and South Africa. These countries hve people who learned English at an early age and understand US/UK business habits. Jobs such as customer relations would work best there. Even software development involves a lot of communication. This is possibly why India seems to have beat China and Japan.
Its that damn Mickey Mouse copyright rule, now like 96 years since the authors death. So you wont see much Gutenberg seelctiosn from after the 1920s, unless the author has given permission.
One way to improve accuracy is to integrate thousands of measurements made over several hours. Then measure over a network of stations to reduce error. Also there are stricks like using the carrier signal for further precision.
That would be a no-brainer. It already runs under Apple-UNIX. They would make hundreds of millions on this product. No, in the insane effort to crush Linux, they deprive themselves and stockholders of a large source of revenue.
They could put other apps like the Visual developers series on Linux. Many of these were original cross-developed on UNIX minis before PCs got powerful enough in the early 1990s.
The purchase of a company usually has a retention clause saying you dont get all your money until you have worked X years. X ranges from one to five years. The purpose is (1) the company's assets are often its creative people and (2) to train successors. It is unclear if he is losing some of the purchase money due to his independent streak.
The pruchase was in stock currency, so its value declined with AOL Time Warner stock price. Could have been worse considering other dot.coms.
About three years ago a small rental car agency installed GPS in their vehicles and put fine print clauses in their contracts that speeding would be fined significantly. When guilty customers complained about hundreds of dollars of extra charges and not knowing about the tracking, the company backed down.
These days you buy these devices for less than $200 and track the teenage drivers in your family.
Your college might have a slant towards Linux, Apple or MicroSoft in their courseware or administrative software, so they may suggest certain computers and platforms. However, much of this has migrated to the Web which is less platform-dependent.
Second, you might check for certain group deals they might have for certain hardware and software. Sometimes this is the way to go.
Hinduism and Buddhism hold the world is collective delusion of its imperfect inhabitants. This resembles Matrix in that reality is a delusion, but doesnt place the cause on a artifact computer, but ourselves.
Our imperfections include our biological senses (nature) and our expereiences (nuture), perhaps going back to previous lives (karma).
I'm glad to see some other country still has a vision of space exploration. You'd think in the 35 years since the US put someone on the moon, that technology could now do it for a billion or two. Nothing was more disappointing to watch "2001" in both 1968 and 2001 and see how how the US squandered its future.
Basically we use VCRs/DVRs to time-shift broadcast TV to more convenient times.
That means from busy times of the week to less busy times of the same week. I'd rarely shift more than a week's worth, except on vacation. So thats where I come up with the first 25 hour number.
The 1000 hour number is for archival storage of favorite movies or TV series. I doubt I'd ever re-watch more than 1000 hours of anything in my lifetime.
I wonder if the rise of electronic media fuels the measured increase in IQs during the 20th century. The increase has been about 3 points per decade, or about 25 points since World War I when IQ tests were first broadly given to soldiers. (They were really "dumb farmboys" in the 19th century.)
During the 20th century you have movies, radio, television, video games, and the internet coming along about every 20 years to increasely stimulate young minds.
The DOD is just itching to test those nukes
again and will subvert any cause to do so.
Having the most hawkish administration since
the Spanish American War pours more fuel on the fire.
Back in the old days Bob Metcafte, inventer of the EtherNet, predicted the Net would die that year from clogging up.
Took a lot of ribbing for that one.
Amino acids and other organic compounds are found in some of the instellar dust clouds around the galaxy. Astronomers think these are formed by the interactions of C-N-O-H atoms over eons of time, but other explanations are possibily. NASA scientists have successfully done a space-analogue of the mIller experiment. Life soup is everywhere!
In the mid 1980s Pixar was basically a computer hardware company making nifty graphics accelerators for volume visualization. Since this was not the core business of LucasFilm either Pixar would would have to compete with the parent company for development capital and perhaps one or both would be shortchanged. So Lucus spun his computer divisions off hoping they could making money expanding to other markets like medical imaging, oil exploration, etc. However, in the mid-1980s UNIX graphics workstations like Apollo, HP and Sun were caught up to Pixar's hardware. The crucial insight of Job's purchase was that Pixar's graphics expertise was unparalleled, so the hardware was dumped and they never looked back.
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Pueto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, some of the Virgin Islands. Some were offered the opportunity to become states or independent countries.
The record holder is 35 teras Japan Earth Simulator. IBM ASCII-Q will be 100 teras soon. NOAA turned on a 7.3 tera compter today (NY Times). Last week the DOE hooked together a bunch of game-cubes to make a $50K tera computer.
The European Space Agency successfully launched theirs last Monday on a Russian rocket. Theirs cost $80 million compared to the US $400 million per craft. The Euros just have a robotic arm, while the Yanks use artificially intelligent rovers.
There is a low fuel (cheap) path to Mars in a two month window every 2.5 years. So this is why you see a flurry of launches. With a 40% success rate over the decades- 41 of 66 Mars craft didnt make it- hopefully at least one of these three will succeed. Lots of interesting craft planned for 2005 and 2008 launches.
I remember when the two Steves would bring their Apple prototypes to the Stanford Linear Accelerator auditorium to demonstrate them. At a time when hackers where programming blinking light patterns on PDPs and Altair consoles, the two Steves figured out how to hook up a monitor and keyboard (disks came much later). Some of this is captured in the Revenge of the Nerds, part I.
To some degree the former colonies of England and America will always have an advantage. These would be mainly India, the Philipines, and South Africa. These countries hve people who learned English at an early age and understand US/UK business habits. Jobs such as customer relations would work best there. Even software development involves a lot of communication. This is possibly why India seems to have beat China and Japan.
Mexico, Taiwan, and Korea now have "expensive" labor. So they outsource manufacturing to Malaysia and the Philipines.
Its that damn Mickey Mouse copyright rule, now like 96 years since the authors death. So you wont see much Gutenberg seelctiosn from after the 1920s, unless the author has given permission.
Geologists have been measuring micro-motions of the earth since GPS started in the early 1990s. There are thousands of talks on the subject here .
One way to improve accuracy is to integrate thousands of measurements made over several hours. Then measure over a network of stations to reduce error. Also there are stricks like using the carrier signal for further precision.
That would be a no-brainer. It already runs under Apple-UNIX. They would make hundreds of millions on this product. No, in the insane effort to crush Linux, they deprive themselves and stockholders of a large source of revenue.
They could put other apps like the Visual developers series on Linux. Many of these were original cross-developed on UNIX minis before PCs got powerful enough in the early 1990s.
The purchase of a company usually has a retention clause saying you dont get all your money until you have worked X years. X ranges from one to five years. The purpose is (1) the company's assets are often its creative people and (2) to train successors. It is unclear if he is losing some of the purchase money due to his independent streak.
The pruchase was in stock currency, so its value declined with AOL Time Warner stock price. Could have been worse considering other dot.coms.
About three years ago a small rental car agency installed GPS in their vehicles and put fine print clauses in their contracts that speeding would be fined significantly. When guilty customers complained about hundreds of dollars of extra charges and not knowing about the tracking, the company backed down.
These days you buy these devices for less than $200 and track the teenage drivers in your family.
So technically you have hands-on expereience. I took the dicital lab. You didnt solder, but did wire-wrap ICs together.
Your college might have a slant towards Linux, Apple or MicroSoft in their courseware or administrative software, so they may suggest certain computers and platforms. However, much of this has migrated to the Web which is less platform-dependent.
Second, you might check for certain group deals they might have for certain hardware and software. Sometimes this is the way to go.
Hinduism and Buddhism hold the world is collective delusion of its imperfect inhabitants. This resembles Matrix in that reality is a delusion, but doesnt place the cause on a artifact computer, but ourselves. Our imperfections include our biological senses (nature) and our expereiences (nuture), perhaps going back to previous lives (karma).
I'm glad to see some other country still has a vision of space exploration. You'd think in the 35 years since the US put someone on the moon, that technology could now do it for a billion or two. Nothing was more disappointing to watch "2001" in both 1968 and 2001 and see how how the US squandered its future.
The universe belongs to the bold!
Its difficult to cram the novel into the eight hour theatrical release. What can they do in a three hour play?
Basically we use VCRs/DVRs to time-shift broadcast TV to more convenient times. That means from busy times of the week to less busy times of the same week. I'd rarely shift more than a week's worth, except on vacation. So thats where I come up with the first 25 hour number.
The 1000 hour number is for archival storage of favorite movies or TV series. I doubt I'd ever re-watch more than 1000 hours of anything in my lifetime.
I wonder if the rise of electronic media fuels the measured increase in IQs during the 20th century. The increase has been about 3 points per decade, or about 25 points since World War I when IQ tests were first broadly given to soldiers. (They were really "dumb farmboys" in the 19th century.)
During the 20th century you have movies, radio, television, video games, and the internet coming along about every 20 years to increasely stimulate young minds.
And the bookstore rush with 50 million of favorite neighborhood kids on June 20th?
Personally I find the books lightweight and choppy, even for kids.
The DOD is just itching to test those nukes again and will subvert any cause to do so. Having the most hawkish administration since the Spanish American War pours more fuel on the fire.
Back in the old days Bob Metcafte, inventer of the EtherNet, predicted the Net would die that year from clogging up. Took a lot of ribbing for that one.
Nuf said. R.I.P. SCO. You've passed your viable lifetime.
Amino acids and other organic compounds are found in some of the instellar dust clouds around the galaxy. Astronomers think these are formed by the interactions of C-N-O-H atoms over eons of time, but other explanations are possibily. NASA scientists have successfully done a space-analogue of the mIller experiment. Life soup is everywhere!
In the mid 1980s Pixar was basically a computer hardware company making nifty graphics accelerators for volume visualization. Since this was not the core business of LucasFilm either Pixar would would have to compete with the parent company for development capital and perhaps one or both would be shortchanged. So Lucus spun his computer divisions off hoping they could making money expanding to other markets like medical imaging, oil exploration, etc. However, in the mid-1980s UNIX graphics workstations like Apollo, HP and Sun were caught up to Pixar's hardware. The crucial insight of Job's purchase was that Pixar's graphics expertise was unparalleled, so the hardware was dumped and they never looked back.