Used to be that the stock price of MicroSoft
stock doubled every two years, hence a split.
Bill Gates would get ten times richer every
five years, with predictions of hime becoming
the first trillionaire sometime in the
first decade of the 21st century.
Well, MSFT has been stagnant for the past
four years. Bill gave over a third to charity
and he's been stuck at $30-$40 billion for a while.
They say a top end game now costs a couple million to develop and market. Not as as high as top end movie to produce, but similar to a low end studio movie or moderate indie movie.
game revenues now exceed the movie industry by a bit. Of course, just as one can now go out with digi-cam and the iMovie editor and shot a decent indie movie for tens of thousands of dollars (I've seen a few decent ones at film festivals) a independent game developer can do a lot more on his/her own for a few thousand bucks.
Many new doctors are stuck working for HMOs with their ardorous paper trails and cost cutting. With large student loans and lack of capital to go indpendent they are stuck as employees.
And what is the second most popular H-1B industry after IT? You guessed right- medicine- interns, nurses, etc. The floodgates are opening!
I know an awful lot of new lawyers stuggling at $40K-$50K with large student loans. If you arent from a name school, you may not get a lush partner track.
Must be something hallucigenic in that Potamic water... They just announced $11+ billion to implement a star wars system that has not has significant experimental success yet.
The computer generation of Gollum, not to mention his voice and mannerisms was out of this world. The face musculature was exquisite. Could the actor who mimed Gollum get an Oscar? Or should the F/X get the Oscar? Or should LOTR be a animation film candidate?
Other interesting synthespians this year include Yoda from the Clone Wars. S1m0ne was pretty good too.
(1) Baradur- Sauran
(2) Orthanac- Saruman
(3) Minas Tirth- Denathor
(4) Minas Morgual (Ithil)- The Nine Riders
I suspect the book means the first two;
but much of tha action happens around the last two.
There is the startup problem of attracting the best scientists to publish your "new" way. The best want to publish in the the best journals. If you have no track record, then it is hard to get the chain going.
A large fraction of the scientific journals are backed by a quality professional society. For example, Science magazine is sponsored by the American Association for Advancement of Science, annual meeting in Denver 2/03. If the AAAS would buy into this new on-line journal, then it would fly.
Scientific misconduct is nothing new, but in the long run things work out. The scientific method is inherently self-correcting, but sometimes that takes decades to work out.
Some of the 19th century "competition" has become the stuff of legends. Edison vs. Telsa to design the national electric grid. Telsa's ideas won out. Edison vs. almost everyone else.
The dinosaur pioneers Marshal and Cope. One used the others name for fossilized shit! But in the end the real facts survived and the garbage disappeared.
I would have thought many of them would no longer be manufactured. (Computers went solid state- discrete transistors- in the late 1950s and integrated circuits in the early 1970s.)
Scientific cloning- the publication in incremental results- allows progress on the subject. Rember is was something like fifty years bewteen the first successful clones of amphibians & reptiles in the 1930s and of mammals in the 1990s. Would be even slower without publication.
The December issue of Wired (online Dec 13) talks about China's aggressive push into the stem cell industry while the West grapples with ethical roadblocks. An major approach is to create human embryoes using rabbit egg cells as the host. Its rather slow and costly to get human egg cells in sufficent quantities. Would these clones be called "habbits" then and have the urge to hop and mate mate every five minutes?:-)
Outside of China, human embryo stem cells are grown intermixed with mouse cells. That is because the nourishment techniques were developed with mouse biotechnology and haven't fully migrated to pure human yet. These clones would have a taste for cheeses and squeak while talking.
China has become a second rate culture in the 20th-21st century, because they only seem to be able to copy, rather than innovate, whether it is movies or high tech. The few movie directors and actors who do become good migrate to the West anyways. China has tons of great ancient myths that would rival a Lord of the Rings triolgy if they'd put their minds to it.
Gateway is using the National Science Foundation "Grid" protocol for connecting computers. Originally designed for scientific supercomputing, some commercial sites are using it.
The first half billion years of earth were likely
a molten meteorite hell too. Also most of the earths surface- the surfloors are recycled every 100-200 million years by plate tectonics, perhaps 20 times or so overall, wiping out much of the hellish scars.
Is a Heinlein novel I'd been waiting to see as a movie. It has action and appeal to young people. The novel is about a geeky teenager who wins a old space suit in a contest, then is kidnapped by aliens while testing the suit. The theme does resemble "The Last Starfighter" where an alienated teenager is sucked into a galactic war while playing a video game.
The new movie "The Hours" is about as cereberal as they come, and looks like it will be a successful Oscar contender. It is about three artistic people considering suicide with interlocking lives. The high point is that its does have compelling dramatic conflict- whether to commit suicide or not. SciFi stories are usually not so heavy.
They kept TOO faithful the book and tried to show too many stages of Robin William's evolution to humanity. That made the movie too long. Also the main dramatic conflict "why cant I be more like a man?" is not that compelling. Star Trek has done it several times in each series and pretty much explored all the the twists.
How can I Robot, which a prequel to Bicentennial Man and been copied many times in Star Trek, succeed?
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You Mass people must like the telemarketers.
Used to be that the stock price of MicroSoft stock doubled every two years, hence a split. Bill Gates would get ten times richer every five years, with predictions of hime becoming the first trillionaire sometime in the first decade of the 21st century.
Well, MSFT has been stagnant for the past four years. Bill gave over a third to charity and he's been stuck at $30-$40 billion for a while.
They say a top end game now costs a couple million to develop and market. Not as as high as top end movie to produce, but similar to a low end studio movie or moderate indie movie. game revenues now exceed the movie industry by a bit. Of course, just as one can now go out with digi-cam and the iMovie editor and shot a decent indie movie for tens of thousands of dollars (I've seen a few decent ones at film festivals) a independent game developer can do a lot more on his/her own for a few thousand bucks.
Many new doctors are stuck working for HMOs with their ardorous paper trails and cost cutting. With large student loans and lack of capital to go indpendent they are stuck as employees.
And what is the second most popular H-1B industry after IT? You guessed right- medicine- interns, nurses, etc. The floodgates are opening!
I know an awful lot of new lawyers stuggling at $40K-$50K with large student loans. If you arent from a name school, you may not get a lush partner track.
Undertaking is labor-intensive. Qualifies for H-1B (legal) or could go the underground illegal route.
Must be something hallucigenic in that Potamic water ... They just announced $11+ billion to implement a star wars system that has not has significant experimental success yet.
The computer generation of Gollum, not to mention his voice and mannerisms was out of this world. The face musculature was exquisite. Could the actor who mimed Gollum get an Oscar? Or should the F/X get the Oscar? Or should LOTR be a animation film candidate?
Other interesting synthespians this year include Yoda from the Clone Wars. S1m0ne was pretty good too.
(1) Baradur- Sauran
(2) Orthanac- Saruman
(3) Minas Tirth- Denathor
(4) Minas Morgual (Ithil)- The Nine Riders
I suspect the book means the first two; but much of tha action happens around the last two.
There is the startup problem of attracting the best scientists to publish your "new" way. The best want to publish in the the best journals. If you have no track record, then it is hard to get the chain going.
A large fraction of the scientific journals are backed by a quality professional society. For example, Science magazine is sponsored by the American Association for Advancement of Science, annual meeting in Denver 2/03. If the AAAS would buy into this new on-line journal, then it would fly.
I can never find a good Quantum Mechanic when I need one. My qubits are entangled again and I need a tune up.
Fox-int-the-henhouse atory here!
Scientific misconduct is nothing new, but in the long run things work out. The scientific method is inherently self-correcting, but sometimes that takes decades to work out.
Some of the 19th century "competition" has become the stuff of legends. Edison vs. Telsa to design the national electric grid. Telsa's ideas won out. Edison vs. almost everyone else. The dinosaur pioneers Marshal and Cope. One used the others name for fossilized shit! But in the end the real facts survived and the garbage disappeared.
I would have thought many of them would no longer be manufactured. (Computers went solid state- discrete transistors- in the late 1950s and integrated circuits in the early 1970s.)
Scientific cloning- the publication in incremental results- allows progress on the subject. Rember is was something like fifty years bewteen the first successful clones of amphibians & reptiles in the 1930s and of mammals in the 1990s. Would be even slower without publication.
The December issue of Wired (online Dec 13) talks about China's aggressive push into the stem cell industry while the West grapples with ethical roadblocks. An major approach is to create human embryoes using rabbit egg cells as the host. Its rather slow and costly to get human egg cells in sufficent quantities. Would these clones be called "habbits" then and have the urge to hop and mate mate every five minutes? :-)
Outside of China, human embryo stem cells are grown intermixed with mouse cells. That is because the nourishment techniques were developed with mouse biotechnology and haven't fully migrated to pure human yet. These clones would have a taste for cheeses and squeak while talking.
China has become a second rate culture in the 20th-21st century, because they only seem to be able to copy, rather than innovate, whether it is movies or high tech. The few movie directors and actors who do become good migrate to the West anyways. China has tons of great ancient myths that would rival a Lord of the Rings triolgy if they'd put their minds to it.
At least ten years old. The earth is full of life. Life helps makes the rocks: limestone, iron deposits, most ore deposits, petroleum deposits.
Gateway is using the National Science Foundation "Grid" protocol for connecting computers. Originally designed for scientific supercomputing, some commercial sites are using it.
But Franklin and Faraday got all the credit.
He's back!
The first half billion years of earth were likely a molten meteorite hell too. Also most of the earths surface- the surfloors are recycled every 100-200 million years by plate tectonics, perhaps 20 times or so overall, wiping out much of the hellish scars.
He got a patent on a new kind of refrigerator .
Is a Heinlein novel I'd been waiting to see as a movie. It has action and appeal to young people. The novel is about a geeky teenager who wins a old space suit in a contest, then is kidnapped by aliens while testing the suit. The theme does resemble "The Last Starfighter" where an alienated teenager is sucked into a galactic war while playing a video game.
The new movie "The Hours" is about as cereberal as they come, and looks like it will be a successful Oscar contender. It is about three artistic people considering suicide with interlocking lives. The high point is that its does have compelling dramatic conflict- whether to commit suicide or not. SciFi stories are usually not so heavy.
They kept TOO faithful the book and tried to show too many stages of Robin William's evolution to humanity. That made the movie too long. Also the main dramatic conflict "why cant I be more like a man?" is not that compelling. Star Trek has done it several times in each series and pretty much explored all the the twists.
How can I Robot, which a prequel to Bicentennial Man and been copied many times in Star Trek, succeed?