There is only so many basic ways to look at things.
Some religion or philospher has used them before.
Hindus, Muslims, and others can show these seed
ideas in there scriptures.
Walt Disney wanted to extend the rights to his branded characters and got the lawmakers to do it.
In some respects his old stuff is renewed every decade: new generations of kids and new media- film, theme park, video tape, DVD, IMAX...
Each reissue is a new pile of money.
2001 was spectacular in Colorado. I came back from a Sunday pre-Thanksgiving dinner and rested. It was supposed to peak after dawn, so I went out in the city lights at 3AM and saw a couple per minute. So I drove to a darker park and saw what looked like continuous fireworks.
About 18 years ago Jeff Raskin and Canon Inc. built a computer called the Canon Cat based on some of these principles. The Cat memory was basically one massive flat file you could search, order, compute, or edit with a few simple universal commands. (I thought it was too massive for my limited brain.) The architect Jeff Raskin has a footnote in P.C. history as the guy and computer project who Steve Jobs took over when Steve was trying to regain power at Apple after the Apple III and Lisa diappointments.
The "memory enhancement" experts going all the way back to ancient Greece have long known that spatial cues are a powerful way of organizing human memory (especially in males). So any information organization metaphor that is spatial or geometrical would exploit this principle. That would mean the "desktop" or "office" isnt that bad, though there might be better ones. Perhaps rooms in a house or streets of a city (geocities@yahoo) might be more tangible than a desktop, but probably not worth the change involved.
Its a continuum between all three. One user's annoyance may be an intentional feature. It also may not be a serious failure, but a future enhancement . Because of this continnuum, a good support and development database puts all three together.
There are also may be duplication. The person updating the database may overlook a similar bug or may not be sure it is the same. The same deep root cause may have a variety of manifestations.
The bug/enhacements databse is one of the most important software engineering tools. Its a good way to tie users, support, and developers together. It is a metric for progress in software stability.
The first one mentioned is bona-fide hologram. The diffraction pattern is not obtained by reference beam interference as in classical holograms, but computed from the wave equation,
and then constructed in an acoustic-optical crystal.
The other technologies are not true holograms as you've obeserved.
The GRID computing project http://www.gridcomputing.com/ is a set of software standards for linking computers into super computing networks. Most of the world's supercomputing centers particpate in one way or the other. However it appears from the webpage of the this Candanian project that they are not using GRID and going their own way.
The oldest European family lineages date from the eighth century A.D. Everything else was lost in the dark ages. The Romans used trace back 500 years, but that information was cut off.
On the Asian side, the Japanese royal family claims 2,000. Some Chinese clans claim back to 2,500 years, including Confucius's family.
In the Middle Eat they remember lineages back to the establishment of Islam or 1,400 years.
I heard Kevin in late September talk at a Denver bookstore.
So far in the series:
(1-6) Frank Herberts six Dune books.
(7-9) The three book prequel.
(10) First book of the Butlerian trilogy.
Coming:
(11-12) Second book of Butlerian trilogy done; third book being written.
(13-15) A fill-in-the-gaps trilogy between the prequels and #2 (Dune Messiah) on how Atriedes
got assigned to Dune; How Paul's jihad went, etc.
(16) A "Road to Dune" book consisting of unpublished notes and short stories found in Frank's estate papers. Both authors are strongly opposed to a Christopher Toklein series, i.e. where Chris published 12 books on every scrap of paper his father wrote.
(17) A sequel to Frank's sixth book based on full outline found in the estate papers and initial work by Frank. (The amount of this material is highly controversial and we may being hoodwinked here.) Supposedly we learn more where the last no-ship went, who the mysterious farmer couple were, and something more about the scattering culture.
Kevin also mentioned how the co-authorship works. Both authors completely rewrite everything up to ten times in alternating shifts. Both authors work on other projects in the meantime. Brian H. does not fly in airplanes (a scifi tradition), so he rarely makes it out of the west coast.
The farmed out processing only seeks candidate signals. When one is found it is re-processed by the central site to verify and interpret it. This is sciencific re-produceability in action.
I dont know the exact number, but there have been several dozen false-positives so far, e.g. overlooked satellites quasars and the such.
I attend both MIT and Stanford and found the MIT students to be more informed about everything than the Stanford or Harvard students. MIT requires a minimum of two years of science and math courses (most take much more), while the other two schools much less than that. You could talk about anything with MIT students at late night dorm sessions- technology, politics, literature, philosophy, social action, etc. The other places the students werent as widely knowledgeable. They would intentionally avoid technology and philosphy.
If you considered connecting up cities by
telegraph as its first manifestation.
The socialogical implications were similar-
light speed communication, an inductry bubble, etc.
Al Gore's great-great grandfather even helped build it!
Probably more erotic for two people talking on telephone to tell each where to touch each other and then make appropriate pleasure noises. Letting your imagination fill in the the rest can be very erotic. Ditto for reading pr0n compared to viewing it.
First, everything on the net is computerized and leaves a digital trail. Much easier to trace than face-to-face transactions.
Second, the choke point are the delvieray services. There only a few of them. They could be forced to collect the tax as postage. Much like the charges on your local phone bill for taxes added by any telco service you use.
There are software tools already to figure out the sales tax by every zip code in the country, and which goverment level gets which slice. The zip code would be taken from the recipient's delivery address. Perhaps the post-office or UPS may be require to collect the actual tax.
Conventional wisdom, sometimes called Amdahl's second law of computing, says you need as many bytes as flops, i.e. a one second main memory buffer. This computer only has 1/60 sufficient memory- 16 terabytes for one petaflop. Anything that involves serious dataprocessing, e.g. sensor signals, won't run at top speed due to the seriousmemory deficiency.
Rescued from disaster- NASA figured out how squeeze data throught the 50 times slower backup attenna when the main one failed-
the Galileo mission has extended five years beyond its planned lifetime. Exhaustion of nagivation fuel and other priorities for the Deep Space Network will eventually finish this mission.
After the Sun and Moon.
Its been fascinating to watch it get brighter as they add more cylinders and panels every year.
The station is visible in the evenings about one week a month and mornings one week a month, so the orbit can wobble over the US, Russia, Europe, and Japan. Sky & Telescope (set zip code, click on almanac)
shows pass times & locations, as do other websites.
Slashdot Mirror
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done there is nothing new under the sun"
There is only so many basic ways to look at things. Some religion or philospher has used them before. Hindus, Muslims, and others can show these seed ideas in there scriptures.
Walt Disney wanted to extend the rights to his branded characters and got the lawmakers to do it. In some respects his old stuff is renewed every decade: new generations of kids and new media- film, theme park, video tape, DVD, IMAX ...
Each reissue is a new pile of money.
2001 was spectacular in Colorado. I came back from a Sunday pre-Thanksgiving dinner and rested. It was supposed to peak after dawn, so I went out in the city lights at 3AM and saw a couple per minute. So I drove to a darker park and saw what looked like continuous fireworks.
About 18 years ago Jeff Raskin and Canon Inc. built a computer called the Canon Cat based on some of these principles. The Cat memory was basically one massive flat file you could search, order, compute, or edit with a few simple universal commands. (I thought it was too massive for my limited brain.) The architect Jeff Raskin has a footnote in P.C. history as the guy and computer project who Steve Jobs took over when Steve was trying to regain power at Apple after the Apple III and Lisa diappointments.
The "memory enhancement" experts going all the way back to ancient Greece have long known that spatial cues are a powerful way of organizing human memory (especially in males). So any information organization metaphor that is spatial or geometrical would exploit this principle. That would mean the "desktop" or "office" isnt that bad, though there might be better ones. Perhaps rooms in a house or streets of a city (geocities@yahoo) might be more tangible than a desktop, but probably not worth the change involved.
The article cites 132 million CPU hours over 18 months. At one time my computer center used to charge $30 a CPU hour.
Design patterns is the distillation and categorization of the most useful kinds of objects. Should be required in any computer curriculum.
Its a continuum between all three. One user's annoyance may be an intentional feature. It also may not be a serious failure, but a future enhancement . Because of this continnuum, a good support and development database puts all three together.
There are also may be duplication. The person updating the database may overlook a similar
bug or may not be sure it is the same. The same deep root cause may have a variety of manifestations.
The bug/enhacements databse is one of the most important software engineering tools. Its a good way to tie users, support, and developers together. It is a metric for progress in software stability.
The first one mentioned is bona-fide hologram. The diffraction pattern is not obtained by reference beam interference as in classical holograms, but computed from the wave equation, and then constructed in an acoustic-optical crystal.
The other technologies are not true holograms as you've obeserved.
The GRID computing project http://www.gridcomputing.com/ is a set of software standards for linking computers into super computing networks. Most of the world's supercomputing centers particpate in one way or the other. However it appears from the webpage of the this Candanian project that they are not using GRID and going their own way.
First, you need access to ancestor DNA. Most graves last less than a century. Almost none past a thosand years. Second, some mutations occur.
The oldest European family lineages date from the eighth century A.D. Everything else was lost in the dark ages. The Romans used trace back 500 years, but that information was cut off.
On the Asian side, the Japanese royal family claims 2,000. Some Chinese clans claim back to 2,500 years, including Confucius's family. In the Middle Eat they remember lineages back to the establishment of Islam or 1,400 years.
I heard Kevin in late September talk at a Denver bookstore.
So far in the series:
(1-6) Frank Herberts six Dune books.
(7-9) The three book prequel.
(10) First book of the Butlerian trilogy.
Coming:
(11-12) Second book of Butlerian trilogy done; third book being written.
(13-15) A fill-in-the-gaps trilogy between the prequels and #2 (Dune Messiah) on how Atriedes got assigned to Dune; How Paul's jihad went, etc.
(16) A "Road to Dune" book consisting of unpublished notes and short stories found in Frank's estate papers. Both authors are strongly opposed to a Christopher Toklein series, i.e. where Chris published 12 books on every scrap of paper his father wrote.
(17) A sequel to Frank's sixth book based on full outline found in the estate papers and initial work by Frank. (The amount of this material is highly controversial and we may being hoodwinked here.) Supposedly we learn more where the last no-ship went, who the mysterious farmer couple were, and something more about the scattering culture.
Kevin also mentioned how the co-authorship works. Both authors completely rewrite everything up to ten times in alternating shifts. Both authors work on other projects in the meantime. Brian H. does not fly in airplanes (a scifi tradition), so he rarely makes it out of the west coast.
The farmed out processing only seeks candidate signals. When one is found it is re-processed by the central site to verify and interpret it. This is sciencific re-produceability in action. I dont know the exact number, but there have been several dozen false-positives so far, e.g. overlooked satellites quasars and the such.
I attend both MIT and Stanford and found the MIT students to be more informed about everything than the Stanford or Harvard students. MIT requires a minimum of two years of science and math courses (most take much more), while the other two schools much less than that. You could talk about anything with MIT students at late night dorm sessions- technology, politics, literature, philosophy, social action, etc. The other places the students werent as widely knowledgeable. They would intentionally avoid technology and philosphy.
If you considered connecting up cities by telegraph as its first manifestation. The socialogical implications were similar- light speed communication, an inductry bubble, etc.
Al Gore's great-great grandfather even helped build it!
Probably more erotic for two people talking on telephone to tell each where to touch each other and then make appropriate pleasure noises. Letting your imagination fill in the the rest can be very erotic. Ditto for reading pr0n compared to viewing it.
First, everything on the net is computerized and leaves a digital trail. Much easier to trace than face-to-face transactions.
Second, the choke point are the delvieray services. There only a few of them. They could be forced to collect the tax as postage. Much like the charges on your local phone bill for taxes added by any telco service you use.
There are software tools already to figure out the sales tax by every zip code in the country, and which goverment level gets which slice. The zip code would be taken from the recipient's delivery address. Perhaps the post-office or UPS may be require to collect the actual tax.
In B & B the furniture gossiped, sang and dance. Cant wait for the day when the things in my house sing and dance too, thanks to the Media Lab. :-)
Conventional wisdom, sometimes called Amdahl's second law of computing, says you need as many bytes as flops, i.e. a one second main memory buffer. This computer only has 1/60 sufficient memory- 16 terabytes for one petaflop. Anything that involves serious dataprocessing, e.g. sensor signals, won't run at top speed due to the seriousmemory deficiency.
Rescued from disaster- NASA figured out how squeeze data throught the 50 times slower backup attenna when the main one failed- the Galileo mission has extended five years beyond its planned lifetime. Exhaustion of nagivation fuel and other priorities for the Deep Space Network will eventually finish this mission.
Those human butterflies all over the IE browser look like faeries with wings to me. Is there another message? :-) (This isnt childish name-calling.)
After the Sun and Moon. Its been fascinating to watch it get brighter as they add more cylinders and panels every year.
The station is visible in the evenings about one week a month and mornings one week a month, so the orbit can wobble over the US, Russia, Europe, and Japan. Sky & Telescope (set zip code, click on almanac) shows pass times & locations, as do other websites.