Peter H. invented the first working XRay laser around 1980. This inspired Edwin teller to promote the Star Wars program. Peter is a very smart guy having raced through MIT as student in two years.
The tests for extra DNA are pretty straightforward once you have a marker.
A recent example is anthrax testing.
At the beginning of the scare it was do the old fashiong way by growing cultures and looking special characteristics- a process that took three to four days. But commercial labs and the CDC came up a genetic marker test that can be done more conclusively and in an hour.
Not because they aren't there, but because they are very hard to detect with current technology (doppler shifts, light curves). The easy planets to find are very large (big doppler shifts) and fast- orbits of months or less.
Does anyone know who first used the term in the Reagan administration? It was certainly inspired by the first two Star Wars movies (1977 & 1980).
Edward Teller (who has a new autobiography) and Ronald Reagan touted it in the 1980s, and every president thereafter to some degree. The proximate cause was the first working X-ray laser by Peter Hagelstein in the last 1979s. It has become one of the most expensive, long-run military projects, with dubious results.
Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey were developed at the same time- the mid sixties, a couple years before the moon landing. Star Trek was clearly fictional, yet fun entertainment. However, 2001 technology was so believable, with its references to corporations like Pan Am and ATT that it made us taste space and desire it. It made many of believe that could really happen in the new millennium (except for the alien stuff).
One could ask the inverse question: what technology was most unpredicted by scifi writers? The I would vote for the personal computer. Until the early 1970s, computers seemed to be going the direction of becoming larger and more central. We had stories about wayward supercomputers like the Forbin Project, 2001 HAL, and the story that spawned the Terminator movies ("I have no mouth and I must scream!") The idea that everyone would own a computer, or hundred or more hidden in cars and appliances, seemed outlandish when they cost a hundred years' salary or more. And whole new segments of human culture- computer stores, software writing companies, games, geekdom, etc.
If anyone came close to predicting this, it may have been Asimov. I recall a short story (in Nine Tomorrows?) about a society entirely dependent on PDA devices. When a savant comes along who can do arithmetic in his head, then that society goes into chaos.
Another close Asimov prediction are his robot plantations where armies of robots do all kinds of labor. In some sense the all of embedded CPUs are like this army.
The new issue of "2600" all but gives a kiddie
script for extracting credit card numbers from
the Passport database. Scary. Dont buy anything
through it until they fix it.
Pixar gnerally uses its software package called
Renderman with sub-pixel polygons. This facilitates temporal and spacial anti-aliasing and detailed texture maps.
Astronomy is a field where non-professionals still make significant discoveries. Virtual astronomy will further facilitate this. Any high school student with enough patience an accumen could learn something significant.
Algorithm:
(1) Pre-compute all combinations of background & foreground.
About 655536 entries per channel.
(2) Just use lookups to compute result (foreground 8 ) | background.
The US seems to be ignoring this market-
people who'd pay a hundred grand for a week in
orbit. Perhaps a clever competitor like China
will figure out how to do this cost effectively.
Intensely hate foreigners, including USA
on
Message from Kabul
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· Score: 2
They will tolerate USA interference for a short while to drive out the greater evil. Stay too long, and they'll be shooting at US soldiers too.
They intensely hate the foreign components of the Taliban. Arabs and Pakistani Taliban who couldn't escape were summarily executed. Only Afgan Taliban were are being imprisoned.
Saw it at the Denver Supercomputer Conference last week. You an either run six standard hi-res
screens simulataneously, or anti-alias to 200 dpi resolution. Print quality images on the screen. Fabulous! About $18K.
There was a fair amount of GUI experimentation
in the early 1980s. However as much I admire
Apple in bringing the Desktop metaphor (developed at Xerox) to the masses, it had the counter effect of freezing this metaphor. Especially when MicroSoft with the inventive creativity of a dead fish copied it and put it on every desktop.
However, this doesn't justify establishing an entirely new, closed language system for developers to have to deal with. I am disgusted that Bill and Scott could get together to resolve their differences. Now they've forced tens of billions of dollars of wasteful duplication on the world.
The problem is that open networks evolve so much faster than closed, secure networks, that users become frustrated with the later and start moving files surrepticiously between them. Thats what Prof Deutch of MIT did while head of the CIA and Wenho Lee of Los Alamos.
The US government led the world in getting on the InterNet. One of Gore's jobs (skip the "he invented the internet" b.s.) was to see that all agencies had an internet presence. And they did. The US is larger seller of goods on the Net mainly through its surplus and bonds sites.
But as web sites must re-invent themselves every other year to stay on the tech forefront, the US effort may have stalled, allowing late-comers like France.gov to take the lead.
Ron Hubbard published at least a dozen books after dying.
Asimov, Heinlein, Roddenberry, Herbert, Toklein had amble stuff published too.
Sometimes notes, as-is, or completions by "ghost" authors.
I've seen too many examples of people overinterpreting there data decrying "disaster is at hand" or "no way the environemnt could be hurt".
So little is known about natural activity, that the scientists shouldn't over do it.
Observations have just finished one 22-year solar
activity cycle. Solar activity has been at a peak this year (producing magnificant aurora
visible across much of the USA last weekend).
This ascpect of natural causes should be understood too.
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Two of them have monitors and keyboards.
The other 48 are in game machines, appliances,
vehicles, etc.
The future of home computing is invisibility.
Peter H. invented the first working XRay laser around 1980. This inspired Edwin teller to promote the Star Wars program. Peter is a very smart guy having raced through MIT as student in two years.
The tests for extra DNA are pretty straightforward once you have a marker. A recent example is anthrax testing. At the beginning of the scare it was do the old fashiong way by growing cultures and looking special characteristics- a process that took three to four days. But commercial labs and the CDC came up a genetic marker test that can be done more conclusively and in an hour.
Not because they aren't there, but because they are very hard to detect with current technology (doppler shifts, light curves). The easy planets to find are very large (big doppler shifts) and fast- orbits of months or less.
Does anyone know who first used the term in the Reagan administration? It was certainly inspired by the first two Star Wars movies (1977 & 1980).
Edward Teller (who has a new autobiography) and Ronald Reagan touted it in the 1980s, and every president thereafter to some degree. The proximate cause was the first working X-ray laser by Peter Hagelstein in the last 1979s. It has become one of the most expensive, long-run military projects, with dubious results.
Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey were developed at the same time- the mid sixties, a couple years before the moon landing. Star Trek was clearly fictional, yet fun entertainment. However, 2001 technology was so believable, with its references to corporations like Pan Am and ATT that it made us taste space and desire it. It made many of believe that could really happen in the new millennium (except for the alien stuff).
One could ask the inverse question: what technology was most unpredicted by scifi writers? The I would vote for the personal computer. Until the early 1970s, computers seemed to be going the direction of becoming larger and more central. We had stories about wayward supercomputers like the Forbin Project, 2001 HAL, and the story that spawned the Terminator movies ("I have no mouth and I must scream!") The idea that everyone would own a computer, or hundred or more hidden in cars and appliances, seemed outlandish when they cost a hundred years' salary or more. And whole new segments of human culture- computer stores, software writing companies, games, geekdom, etc.
If anyone came close to predicting this, it may have been Asimov. I recall a short story (in Nine Tomorrows?) about a society entirely dependent on PDA devices. When a savant comes along who can do arithmetic in his head, then that society goes into chaos.
Another close Asimov prediction are his robot plantations where armies of robots do all kinds of labor. In some sense the all of embedded CPUs are like this army.
The new issue of "2600" all but gives a kiddie
script for extracting credit card numbers from
the Passport database. Scary. Dont buy anything
through it until they fix it.
Pixar gnerally uses its software package called Renderman with sub-pixel polygons. This facilitates temporal and spacial anti-aliasing and detailed texture maps.
Astronomy is a field where non-professionals still make significant discoveries. Virtual astronomy will further facilitate this. Any high school student with enough patience an accumen could learn something significant.
Algorithm:
(1) Pre-compute all combinations of background & foreground.
About 655536 entries per channel.
(2) Just use lookups to compute result (foreground 8 ) | background.
The US seems to be ignoring this market-
people who'd pay a hundred grand for a week in
orbit. Perhaps a clever competitor like China
will figure out how to do this cost effectively.
They will tolerate USA interference for a short while to drive out the greater evil. Stay too long, and they'll be shooting at US soldiers too.
They intensely hate the foreign components of the Taliban. Arabs and Pakistani Taliban who couldn't escape were summarily executed. Only Afgan Taliban were are being imprisoned.
Star Wars Clones proviews have the Princess in a white military getup, resembling her daughter Leah. I guess she must kick-butt in this episode.
I pased through the mall yesterday and saw many toy store pushing "robo-bugs". The gift for little boys, or shelf-filler on Dec 26?
I'm on my third broadband provider this year,
because the other two have gone bankrupt.
Will there ever be stability?
Saw it at the Denver Supercomputer Conference last week. You an either run six standard hi-res screens simulataneously, or anti-alias to 200 dpi resolution. Print quality images on the screen. Fabulous! About $18K.
There was a fair amount of GUI experimentation
in the early 1980s. However as much I admire
Apple in bringing the Desktop metaphor (developed at Xerox) to the masses, it had the counter effect of freezing this metaphor. Especially when MicroSoft with the inventive creativity of a dead fish copied it and put it on every desktop.
Fixed a few things that annoyed me.
However, this doesn't justify establishing an entirely new, closed language system for developers to have to deal with. I am disgusted that Bill and Scott could get together to resolve their differences. Now they've forced tens of billions of dollars of wasteful duplication on the world.
The problem is that open networks evolve so much faster than closed, secure networks, that users become frustrated with the later and start moving files surrepticiously between them. Thats what Prof Deutch of MIT did while head of the CIA and Wenho Lee of Los Alamos.
The US government led the world in getting on the InterNet. One of Gore's jobs (skip the "he invented the internet" b.s.) was to see that all agencies had an internet presence. And they did. The US is larger seller of goods on the Net mainly through its surplus and bonds sites.
But as web sites must re-invent themselves every other year to stay on the tech forefront, the US effort may have stalled, allowing late-comers like France.gov to take the lead.
Ron Hubbard published at least a dozen books after dying. Asimov, Heinlein, Roddenberry, Herbert, Toklein had amble stuff published too. Sometimes notes, as-is, or completions by "ghost" authors.
And maybe do something else. Change majors.
Travel. Try work.
In a few years, the actual major doesn't matter
as much as your experience.
However, not having a degree can really limit the
range of jobs.
I've seen too many examples of people overinterpreting there data decrying "disaster is at hand" or "no way the environemnt could be hurt". So little is known about natural activity, that the scientists shouldn't over do it.
Observations have just finished one 22-year solar activity cycle. Solar activity has been at a peak this year (producing magnificant aurora visible across much of the USA last weekend). This ascpect of natural causes should be understood too.