The DOI is he same agency that was forced off the web by a court ruling in 2001 because it was easy to hack Indian royalty accounts. This turned off National Park Web site, earthquake data sites, etc. also in the DOI. What a mess at the time.
I got snailmail letters with essentially the same scam from Nigeria 20 years ago. For some reason the scammers would use lists of professional societies. I find it difficul to believe people would fall for one of the oldest and most transparent scams, but it soes happen now and then. Sixty Minutes interviewed some people who actually fell for it.
If this goes through, this may be Presient Clinton's most lasting effect on American culture, even more than putting the InterNet in every school. No machine is used more hours per day by more Americans (or anywhere else in the world) than television. Time to leave the primitive 1940s standards and move to 1990s standards. The stuff is great, if it can succeed.
I have a MIT degree. Sure, you can learn a lot by reading the right stuff, even going to a college bookstore and buying the textbook (which generally dont exist for many MIT courses, because they are ahead of the material). But it is interacting with the instructor and fellow students that make the difference, whether doing problem exercises or in testing that really re-inforce whether you know the material or not.
IBM has been selling 9 MP displays for over a year. I saw one at last years supercomputer convention. Its hard to read standard XWindows fonts because they are so small. High end photos
(5 MP and up) are fabulous and look like prints.
A new disk technology these days goes commercial at the high number, then falls in price as it matures. The introduction price threshhold seems to be around $300-$400. So you had to wait for 300+ GB disks for $1 / GB.
journalist and professor blogs useful
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The only blogs I've found useful over the long term are from good journalist and some professors. By definition a journalist is a professional writer. they'll have decent style and cut the trivia. I like college professor blogs where they accumulate their research results.
IOn fact these are treated as drilling hazards witht tendency to explode when penetrated. Only recently have drillers become more confident in technology to produce them. Transport of product is still a problem. Very few natural gas ships. Most is by pipeline.
I read somewhere that the inventor of the telegraph also tried a system to send simple images by pixelated switches and displays. This also resembles the idea of "fax".
Farnsworth did an all electronic scanner & display, which became the norm.
It was an interesting documentary. It was started along with the company, so they didn't originally know that most dot.coms would crash and burn.
What struck me in this and the plethora of dot.bomb books is how naive people were about business and technology. It was like the gold rush- people expected to get rich be just showing up.
A hit toy can return hundreds of millions in profit. The trend is toward more "active" toys. A.I.-bots are likely candidates whether they are on the screen or mechanical.
Most journals are the proceedings of professional scoieties, though a few are from publishers themselves. The socities are the "peers" who select and review the papers. The professional society then may publish itself or team up with a publisher than specializes in journals.
Now if this scheme made it EASIER, CHEAPER, FASTER to get the papers out, then the socieites would be jumping at getting to do this. The new e-media appears to be evolutionary in its advantages rather than revolutionary.
I'd hire a plain vanilla degree with good grades and from a competative university any day. In three years the current fads will have changed and only the basics will matter.
still many amiga computer clubs around
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This technology saw last light at least a decade ago and still has its fans. Slashdot periodically runs stories about the imminent ressurection of AMiga.
Magnetism is oriented atomic spin. The recent term for magnetic devices so small that the spin of individual atoms or molcules matters is "spintronics".
The "Force" is like the Chinese "Chee" (Qi) that permeates everything. Medicine, architecture (geomancy), martial arts, religion, etc seek to balance and maximize the Chee.
The on-again off-again 2006 Pluto probe (launch
date) relies on favorable planetary configurations
as Voyager did. If it isn't launched in 2006 then its something like 40 years before another favorable Pluto configuration occurs.
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The DOI is he same agency that was forced off the web by a court ruling in 2001 because it was easy to hack Indian royalty accounts. This turned off National Park Web site, earthquake data sites, etc. also in the DOI. What a mess at the time.
I got snailmail letters with essentially the same scam from Nigeria 20 years ago. For some reason the scammers would use lists of professional societies. I find it difficul to believe people would fall for one of the oldest and most transparent scams, but it soes happen now and then. Sixty Minutes interviewed some people who actually fell for it.
If this goes through, this may be Presient Clinton's most lasting effect on American culture, even more than putting the InterNet in every school. No machine is used more hours per day by more Americans (or anywhere else in the world) than television. Time to leave the primitive 1940s standards and move to 1990s standards. The stuff is great, if it can succeed.
I have a MIT degree. Sure, you can learn a lot by reading the right stuff, even going to a college bookstore and buying the textbook (which generally dont exist for many MIT courses, because they are ahead of the material). But it is interacting with the instructor and fellow students that make the difference, whether doing problem exercises or in testing that really re-inforce whether you know the material or not.
billion = 32K x 32K (2D) 32 trillion = 32K x 32K x 32K (3D)
IBM has been selling 9 MP displays for over a year. I saw one at last years supercomputer convention. Its hard to read standard XWindows fonts because they are so small. High end photos (5 MP and up) are fabulous and look like prints.
A new disk technology these days goes commercial at the high number, then falls in price as it matures. The introduction price threshhold seems to be around $300-$400. So you had to wait for 300+ GB disks for $1 / GB.
The only blogs I've found useful over the long term are from good journalist and some professors. By definition a journalist is a professional writer. they'll have decent style and cut the trivia. I like college professor blogs where they accumulate their research results.
IOn fact these are treated as drilling hazards witht tendency to explode when penetrated. Only recently have drillers become more confident in technology to produce them. Transport of product is still a problem. Very few natural gas ships. Most is by pipeline.
This increment will help go below $1 per gigabyte, retail. The 120 GB disks have been hovering at $150-$200 in my area, not quite breaking it.
I read somewhere that the inventor of the telegraph also tried a system to send simple images by pixelated switches and displays. This also resembles the idea of "fax".
Farnsworth did an all electronic scanner & display, which became the norm.
I typed in "xes" and got "000,000,3,18 found".
It was an interesting documentary.
It was started along with the company, so they didn't originally know that most dot.coms would crash and burn.
What struck me in this and the plethora of dot.bomb books is how naive people were about business and technology. It was like the gold rush- people expected to get rich be just showing up.
Did hew finish his degree?
A hit toy can return hundreds of millions in profit. The trend is toward more "active" toys. A.I.-bots are likely candidates whether they are on the screen or mechanical.
Most journals are the proceedings of professional scoieties, though a few are from publishers themselves. The socities are the "peers" who select and review the papers. The professional society then may publish itself or team up with a publisher than specializes in journals.
Now if this scheme made it EASIER, CHEAPER, FASTER to get the papers out, then the socieites would be jumping at getting to do this. The new e-media appears to be evolutionary in its advantages rather than revolutionary.
There is no human population more than 35% infected. The other 65% aren't all virgins. Some plagues in the past have had more than 35% morbidity.
I'd hire a plain vanilla degree with good grades and from a competative university any day. In three years the current fads will have changed and only the basics will matter.
This technology saw last light at least a decade ago and still has its fans. Slashdot periodically runs stories about the imminent ressurection of AMiga.
Magnetism is oriented atomic spin. The recent term for magnetic devices so small that the spin of individual atoms or molcules matters is "spintronics".
These stories are slashdot's equivalent of the "grow three inches" spam. Its done everytime a new chip is released.
The "Force" is like the Chinese "Chee" (Qi) that permeates everything. Medicine, architecture (geomancy), martial arts, religion, etc seek to balance and maximize the Chee.
The way the windows grow and shrink into the toolbar reminds me of ghosts flittering around.
Juputier is because it has a large magnetic dynamo, but the other solar system planets are not.
The on-again off-again 2006 Pluto probe (launch date) relies on favorable planetary configurations as Voyager did. If it isn't launched in 2006 then its something like 40 years before another favorable Pluto configuration occurs.