The founder of the MIT A.I. lab was bitten to death this morning by a horde of angry Furbies. They were furious reading Marvin's quote "AI grad students waste three years of their lives soldering and repairing robots."
Why have 20s at all?
Perhaps only 5% of my life's cash flow is in cold physical cash with the rest in non-cash transactions. And I see others card everything- a hamburger, smokes, a movie ticket.
Anonymous small cash hasnt caught in the States
yet, but many Euro cities use smart-cards for everything. That is probably the future.
A couple years ago the Cassandras were claiming computer servers and computers were using as much a 15% of the US power supply. The IT bubble in the late 90s accounted for most of the increase in US electricity demand.
Other people claim the percentage usage is more like 5%. I wonder who is correct.
Roger Ebert at the Boulder 2003 World Affairs Conference said the US market is driven by opening weekend momementum. And it is the teenage boys who have flexible schedules and disposable cash to see films on the first day.
So you make action movies, maybe with a bit of teenage angst. Thats why you'll see mostly "comic book movies" from May 1 to Sept 1 in the USA.
Consumers generally saturate at accumulations of
1000 hours of audio or video. Thats 11 hours a day
if you only listen or watch each thing twice a
year.
Media usage follows power laws: there are some things you want to hear a couple times a day. Most stuff you may only listen to or watch once.
We all know music geeks with 10,000 hour collections. But I doubt if much it have been viewed once, much less twice.
A thousand hours of music is about 70 GB, a thousand hours of video about 2000 GB.
In a year people can carry around all the audio they can effectively use. Video saturation will occur in about five years.
United Airlines was employee-owned too.
The employee unions kept on voting themselves juicier contracts until it went bankrupt.
The total market cap is now less than the price of a jetliner.
People have try to figure out how to make money off of digital music distribution for some time. Looks like iTunes+iPod may be the answer.
Other Steve hits were the Apple II and the Mac+Laser printer.
There were a few duds along the way like the Next cube.
When you read Randy Shlitz's book "And the band played on" you'll meet a flight attendent from Canada who was reponsible for spreading AIDS across North America. He was called "patient zero". Had sex with hundreds of other guys who often became the first AIDS patients in their towns.
There were times when eco-nuts blamed burping cows for excess carbon in the form burping and farting methane. This would probably show up as carbon excess in the west US and sourthern south america, if this hypothesis is true. Looks of cows and few trees in those regions.
SciFi Weekly has periodic reports on a possible upcoming movie. It sounds like there is an option, director, and a script, but not yet firm plans. The issue seems to be that the book is too intellectual, without strong action. However, I contend Dune had similar issues and was made into three movies so far. Also, you dont get more intellectual than "The Hours" which was successfully translated to the screen.
The biggest problem with making money in the market is that when new algorithm for profitable information is discovered, it quickly neutalizes itself when everyone uses it. The 20th century is rife with the invention of new financial instruments- mutual funds (trusts), indexed buying, derivatives, leveraged-buyouts, hedging, instant internet trades, etc.- that when the adventurous minority first use them, make money. However, when EVERYONE jumps on the same bandwagon, people stop making money and may even lose.
My state flags tax returns with home office deductions, schedules C and E, to see if they are paying proper business licenses and obeying zoning laws. Some people have been caught and fined.
Every angle has been explored endlessly in science fiction, including early classics like Brave New World and XMen comics. Humankind has always had issues with diversity, but seems to adapt. I wouldnt get worried.
NASA said launch derbis hitting the shuttle happened several times before. this time it may have been heavier from ice. Or it may have hit a weakened part of an aging shuttle.
The first time was in the early 90s when MS wanted to build its own network as part of MS,
mainly to beat AOL. They had has a thinnly disguised "emulation" of TCP/IP and http. then Bill had his ephipany and decided to embrace the standard InterNet with his give-away IE.
The second time is presently. They are adding special "security bits" to the TCP/IP (Palladium) that maybe usuable by non-MS OSes.
Win-a-few, lose-a-few, MS will always try to dominate a market.
As Harvard professor Steven Pinker says in his best-seller "The Language Instinct"- humans are compulsive communicators. So when we have the ability to communicate with E.T.'s (or dolphins) we will try to do so.
The Star Trek Museum and simulation ride at the Las Vegas Hilton is a fairly interesting s.f. exhibit. You walk through several parts of the Enterprise before taking the ride.
Another interesting s.f. ride is the Walt Disney World's Mission Space, now in preview, and about to open later this year. People who have done that say it is fabulous.
The most profound idea in the article was near the end: "which of the multi-verse ideas is the simplist?" Simplicity of an explanation, called Occam's Razor, is a means of choosing among theories. On the surface, the plain-vanilla single universe sounds the simplest. However a single universe presumes built-in initial and boundary conditons with no objective explanation of why (yet). The most elaborate Level-IV multi-verses have no boundary conditions and may be the SIMPLIST EXPLANATION!
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The founder of the MIT A.I. lab was bitten to death this morning by a horde of angry Furbies. They were furious reading Marvin's quote "AI grad students waste three years of their lives soldering and repairing robots."
Why have 20s at all? Perhaps only 5% of my life's cash flow is in cold physical cash with the rest in non-cash transactions. And I see others card everything- a hamburger, smokes, a movie ticket.
Anonymous small cash hasnt caught in the States yet, but many Euro cities use smart-cards for everything. That is probably the future.
A couple years ago the Cassandras were claiming computer servers and computers were using as much a 15% of the US power supply. The IT bubble in the late 90s accounted for most of the increase in US electricity demand.
Other people claim the percentage usage is more like 5%. I wonder who is correct.
Roger Ebert at the Boulder 2003 World Affairs Conference said the US market is driven by opening weekend momementum. And it is the teenage boys who have flexible schedules and disposable cash to see films on the first day. So you make action movies, maybe with a bit of teenage angst. Thats why you'll see mostly "comic book movies" from May 1 to Sept 1 in the USA.
Consumers generally saturate at accumulations of 1000 hours of audio or video. Thats 11 hours a day if you only listen or watch each thing twice a year. Media usage follows power laws: there are some things you want to hear a couple times a day. Most stuff you may only listen to or watch once. We all know music geeks with 10,000 hour collections. But I doubt if much it have been viewed once, much less twice.
A thousand hours of music is about 70 GB, a thousand hours of video about 2000 GB. In a year people can carry around all the audio they can effectively use. Video saturation will occur in about five years.
Then you have to pay a royalty everytime you do sex?
United Airlines was employee-owned too. The employee unions kept on voting themselves juicier contracts until it went bankrupt. The total market cap is now less than the price of a jetliner.
5) call the company led2gold.com and sell an IPO before Y2K.
People have try to figure out how to make money off of digital music distribution for some time. Looks like iTunes+iPod may be the answer.
Other Steve hits were the Apple II and the Mac+Laser printer. There were a few duds along the way like the Next cube.
When you read Randy Shlitz's book "And the band played on" you'll meet a flight attendent from Canada who was reponsible for spreading AIDS across North America. He was called "patient zero". Had sex with hundreds of other guys who often became the first AIDS patients in their towns.
"hello, Agent 99. Agent 99?" ..."
"PhXx pejjdd"
"Whoops, wrong shoe
There were times when eco-nuts blamed burping cows for excess carbon in the form burping and farting methane. This would probably show up as carbon excess in the west US and sourthern south america, if this hypothesis is true. Looks of cows and few trees in those regions.
SciFi Weekly has periodic reports on a possible upcoming movie. It sounds like there is an option, director, and a script, but not yet firm plans. The issue seems to be that the book is too intellectual, without strong action. However, I contend Dune had similar issues and was made into three movies so far. Also, you dont get more intellectual than "The Hours" which was successfully translated to the screen.
The biggest problem with making money in the market is that when new algorithm for profitable information is discovered, it quickly neutalizes itself when everyone uses it. The 20th century is rife with the invention of new financial instruments- mutual funds (trusts), indexed buying, derivatives, leveraged-buyouts, hedging, instant internet trades, etc.- that when the adventurous minority first use them, make money. However, when EVERYONE jumps on the same bandwagon, people stop making money and may even lose.
My state flags tax returns with home office deductions, schedules C and E, to see if they are paying proper business licenses and obeying zoning laws. Some people have been caught and fined.
Every angle has been explored endlessly in science fiction, including early classics like Brave New World and XMen comics. Humankind has always had issues with diversity, but seems to adapt. I wouldnt get worried.
NASA said launch derbis hitting the shuttle happened several times before. this time it may have been heavier from ice. Or it may have hit a weakened part of an aging shuttle.
That would be the best anti-spam defense. Very few citizens would side with spammers.
The first time was in the early 90s when MS wanted to build its own network as part of MS, mainly to beat AOL. They had has a thinnly disguised "emulation" of TCP/IP and http. then Bill had his ephipany and decided to embrace the standard InterNet with his give-away IE.
The second time is presently. They are adding special "security bits" to the TCP/IP (Palladium) that maybe usuable by non-MS OSes.
Win-a-few, lose-a-few, MS will always try to dominate a market.
As Harvard professor Steven Pinker says in his best-seller "The Language Instinct"- humans are compulsive communicators. So when we have the ability to communicate with E.T.'s (or dolphins) we will try to do so.
Many libraries make a brower the default app on the screen (even after powerup). So all you basically need to know is how to browse.
The Star Trek Museum and simulation ride at the Las Vegas Hilton is a fairly interesting s.f. exhibit. You walk through several parts of the Enterprise before taking the ride.
Another interesting s.f. ride is the Walt Disney World's Mission Space, now in preview, and about to open later this year. People who have done that say it is fabulous.
If you google "nanotube wires" you'll find many doing this in 1999. Then too, both NASA and Slashdot make "discoveries" years later.
The most profound idea in the article was near the end: "which of the multi-verse ideas is the simplist?" Simplicity of an explanation, called Occam's Razor, is a means of choosing among theories. On the surface, the plain-vanilla single universe sounds the simplest. However a single universe presumes built-in initial and boundary conditons with no objective explanation of why (yet). The most elaborate Level-IV multi-verses have no boundary conditions and may be the SIMPLIST EXPLANATION!
There have two 3-year periods, then renew annually. the annual renewals were added so that too many migrants dont leave during the current slump.