The last living mammoths have been dated to 4100 years ago on an island offshore Siberia. This a few centuries AFTER the pyramids of Egypt were constructed.
Biolofical reductionism tries to explain living things with single causes. This has been mostly done with disease, but now they are trying to explain human behaviors. Too simple.
The conventional evaluation method is for a professional society in a subject to think the creation is worth saving in perpetuity. Then they provide archival and serving of this material. The official stamp of approval is the "citation reference", which could be electronic. This is normally done with peer-reviewed papers in journals. However some of these journals are now entirely electronic.
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I tried to google the reference, but about a year ago the NY Time Sunday Magazine or Wired had a story about professional card counters in Southern California card shops. It sounded like a pretty grueling job. These syndicates hired young men to gamble around the clock under avery strick set of playing rules. The odds were slightly in the players favor under these rules, but you needed to turn over hundreds of thousands of dollars a week to realize these odds. The card shops know who these syndicates are and who the players are and dont discourage them. The professionals seem to attracts lots of amateurs to the tables who then lose in favor of the house. The job gets tired quickly for the young men who play.
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Tuition is like buying a car. The list price is for the rich and suckers. Poorer people get steep aid discounts. Students a college really wants get merit scholarships. MIT does little of latter. With most applicants being valedictorians, they dont need to bribe the smart ones in.
The average joe would only pay ten to hundred
dollars a year in email postage- which could be
built into ISP fees. The million message a day
spammer would go broke.
If lawyers are suing fast food chains for cauing obesity health problems, it is only a matter of time before they latch onto the software industry. MicroSoft has $38 billion in cash tempting them.
Part of the reason that imposters, such as a third of the 9-11 terrorists and illegal immigrants, get away with fake SS#, back accounts, jobs, theft, etc. is that SS often are not verified. Checking obtains the simple biometrics of age, sex, and birth place. More sophisticated biometrics could be attached to the ID too.
Of course, everything could be gotten around, but these simple measures would catch most of the current problems.
One out of 2000 people are born with ambiguious genitalia, either through misdevelopment or chromosome ambiguity. About one in 200 people psychologically dont agree with their physical gender. The growing consensus is to let the ambiguous child select their own gender as they grow older, rather than to assign one at birth. Assignment fails in half of the cases.
Not only are borders inaccurate, but the earth moves too. For exampe the San Andreas shifts two inches a year- sometimes in violent jumps all at once. This adds up to 16 feet in a century. Boundaries based on waterways are prone to sfting also.
GPS is used a research tool to observe earth shifts on a minute scale.
Is about the consequences of a completely synthetic popular actress. Her creator Al Pacino tries to convince the world she's real, but just doesn't like to make personal appearances. Although this is "just a movie", the story is not out of question in the future.
I'm really looking forward to the full three
movies shown as a whole, with extra material
thrown in. Maybe in 2004-5. This is doable
because all most of the human filming was done
at one time. Jackson has already taken some
liberties with re-arranging the books chronology
for better dramatic filming. He could also make
a "kosher cut" to follow the books as closely
as possible with the film material. I'd expect the combined cut to be a 12 hout miniseries.
Fusion emits free neutrons that alter materials about the reactor. These tend to be lighter materials than fission byproducts. Lighter radiactive elements tend to have shorter half lives, but are also more readily absorbed into the biological cycle.
Fusion and other alternative energy claims are like the early days of fission- "free power".
EVERY energy source has pollution potential, especially when they are scaled up to the amounts society uses. Society could cut energy use by 90% without much pain. Tooo many 3,000 square foot houses and SUVs.
I heard an OWL talk at the Denver Astronomical Society late last year. In the back of my mind I was comparing to Hubble. Both have 20-30 year planned lifetimes and similar imaging resolution resolutions. ESO-OWL is planning about $100 million a year for construction and operation. Hubble spent $1.5 in initial construction and launch, had two $0.5 billion servicing/upgrade shuttle mission in 1994 and 2002, with a final one planned around 2008. Hubble also has an annual data archiving and analysis budget. I found the total lifetime costs to be comparable.
Would be a display screen dedicated to showing
a photo. Could be anything from credit card size
to [ real ] window size. Would hold a set of
photos you could change at a touch, e.g. iPod does with music. The movie Minority Report had many of these.
I believe Bill gates already has some plasmatrons about his mansion that does this, but these are expensive. Id guess about fifty bucks for a credit card size to a thousand for a wall size would work. This is only a matter of time given Moore's Law.
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The last living mammoths have been dated to 4100 years ago on an island offshore Siberia. This a few centuries AFTER the pyramids of Egypt were constructed.
These contracts dont matter. All the company has to do is claim that your previous work is a 'trade secret' and constrain you on that.
Biolofical reductionism tries to explain living things with single causes. This has been mostly done with disease, but now they are trying to explain human behaviors. Too simple.
The conventional evaluation method is for a professional society in a subject to think the creation is worth saving in perpetuity. Then they provide archival and serving of this material. The official stamp of approval is the "citation reference", which could be electronic. This is normally done with peer-reviewed papers in journals. However some of these journals are now entirely electronic.
I tried to google the reference, but about a year ago the NY Time Sunday Magazine or Wired had a story about professional card counters in Southern California card shops. It sounded like a pretty grueling job. These syndicates hired young men to gamble around the clock under avery strick set of playing rules. The odds were slightly in the players favor under these rules, but you needed to turn over hundreds of thousands of dollars a week to realize these odds. The card shops know who these syndicates are and who the players are and dont discourage them. The professionals seem to attracts lots of amateurs to the tables who then lose in favor of the house. The job gets tired quickly for the young men who play.
Tuition is like buying a car. The list price is for the rich and suckers. Poorer people get steep aid discounts. Students a college really wants get merit scholarships. MIT does little of latter. With most applicants being valedictorians, they dont need to bribe the smart ones in.
It wont matter if the Euros have their own net. They'll need Bill's position to run MS software.
Why bother with drinking? Just inject that caffine directly into my veins!
The average joe would only pay ten to hundred dollars a year in email postage- which could be built into ISP fees. The million message a day spammer would go broke.
If lawyers are suing fast food chains for cauing obesity health problems, it is only a matter of time before they latch onto the software industry. MicroSoft has $38 billion in cash tempting them.
Part of the reason that imposters, such as a third of the 9-11 terrorists and illegal immigrants, get away with fake SS#, back accounts, jobs, theft, etc. is that SS often are not verified. Checking obtains the simple biometrics of age, sex, and birth place. More sophisticated biometrics could be attached to the ID too. Of course, everything could be gotten around, but these simple measures would catch most of the current problems.
One out of 2000 people are born with ambiguious genitalia, either through misdevelopment or chromosome ambiguity. About one in 200 people psychologically dont agree with their physical gender.
The growing consensus is to let the ambiguous child select their own gender as they grow older, rather than to assign one at birth. Assignment fails in half of the cases.
This is the major trick for "eliminating debt" if you ever click-though those spam mails. Credit companies "lose you" when the number is changed.
Not until about 1990 or so. But forget a 1099 or W2 and you'll hear from them. (States seem o be faster at this.)
Not only are borders inaccurate, but the earth moves too. For exampe the San Andreas shifts two inches a year- sometimes in violent jumps all at once. This adds up to 16 feet in a century.
Boundaries based on waterways are prone to sfting also.
GPS is used a research tool to observe earth shifts on a minute scale.
So this technology allows speed ups of about 70%, all other factors being equal. Will bring chips to around 3.5 GHz or so.
Is about the consequences of a completely synthetic popular actress. Her creator Al Pacino tries to convince the world she's real, but just doesn't like to make personal appearances. Although this is "just a movie", the story is not out of question in the future.
I recall the dust on lunar space suits was auctioned to public by a private collector at one time.
I'm really looking forward to the full three movies shown as a whole, with extra material thrown in. Maybe in 2004-5. This is doable because all most of the human filming was done at one time. Jackson has already taken some liberties with re-arranging the books chronology for better dramatic filming. He could also make a "kosher cut" to follow the books as closely as possible with the film material. I'd expect the combined cut to be a 12 hout miniseries.
Slashdot just ran a story like this two months ago. Michael's neurons must have lost its bits.
Fusion emits free neutrons that alter materials about the reactor. These tend to be lighter materials than fission byproducts. Lighter radiactive elements tend to have shorter half lives, but are also more readily absorbed into the biological cycle.
Fusion and other alternative energy claims are like the early days of fission- "free power". EVERY energy source has pollution potential, especially when they are scaled up to the amounts society uses. Society could cut energy use by 90% without much pain. Tooo many 3,000 square foot houses and SUVs.
I heard an OWL talk at the Denver Astronomical Society late last year. In the back of my mind I was comparing to Hubble. Both have 20-30 year planned lifetimes and similar imaging resolution resolutions. ESO-OWL is planning about $100 million a year for construction and operation. Hubble spent $1.5 in initial construction and launch, had two $0.5 billion servicing/upgrade shuttle mission in 1994 and 2002, with a final one planned around 2008. Hubble also has an annual data archiving and analysis budget. I found the total lifetime costs to be comparable.
I recall from an astronomy talk they manuafactured at the site. It becomes economial when making hundreds of sub-mirrors for the five scopes.
Not a great circle, but about 17% shorter.
Would be a display screen dedicated to showing a photo. Could be anything from credit card size to [ real ] window size. Would hold a set of photos you could change at a touch, e.g. iPod does with music. The movie Minority Report had many of these.
I believe Bill gates already has some plasmatrons about his mansion that does this, but these are expensive. Id guess about fifty bucks for a credit card size to a thousand for a wall size would work. This is only a matter of time given Moore's Law.