These only look feasable for a few miles-
i.e. putting those high tension wires underground
in an urban area. Still need a power plant to
generate electricity.
It is hard enough to "classify" modern people
based on bone structure, genetic markers,
physical features (if you have flesh).
Bones from ten thousand years ago are even harder.
K-man doesn't realy fit into any modern categories
acoording many researchers (see PBS special).
That PBS already has done a couple of documentaries
on this.
when computers "disappear" ...
on
Telecosm
·
· Score: 4
A technology becomes really useful when it becomes so integrated into life that we don't notice it any more. The analogy people like Detorsouz make in their books is that of the motor in appliances and vehicles. Computers are a long way from this state. However, you don't really notice the 95% of embedded computers in many of the devices around us.
Telephones haven't reached this state yet, either. Witness these horrible office systems with dozens of numeric function codes and the archaic system of phone numbers. When they become the "communicators" of Star Trek by automatically routing your messages, then they will have become true communications devices.
The old technologies generally don't disappear,
but merge and are transformed by the new technologies.
Take agriculture for example. Food production is
as important as ever, but can be done by one percent of the population instead of fifty percent.
Although a ten-thousand year old technology,
it has embraced and been transformed by metallurgy (plows), chemicals, energy, computers, biotech, corporate management, and telecommunications (e.g. knowing the position of a tractor or grain shipment at all times).
I've had a net email address since 1986,
had three major jobs in that time,
and seen bboards & ISPs rise and drop like flies.
An alumni organization is probably as stable as
anything else- one school been around since 1865
the other 1889. Funny, I don't use the two email-
addresses-for-life I got from them yet.
Rich people are gods and demons!
on
Hi-Tech Repo Man
·
· Score: 2
When some people were doing very well during the InterNet bubble, there was no shortage of articles admiring and envious of those smart and lucky to make a fortune.
Now during the downtown the media is going to the other extreme and amusing us on the misfortune and greed of others.
Many of the people in the article were living
beyond their means and ripping off lenders.
Considering the best place to find luxury cars
in the article was swanky restaurants. If they
cant pay thier loans, whey are they buting
$100 meals?
Beside knowing computers a game must know how to tell a story and how to draw.
To tell a story learn literature and writing.
The same story ideas and characters occur over and over again in history with new twists.
To draw learn drawing, painting, drafting, graphic design, film, multi-media, etc.
You can never know too much art.
Games use sound too. So learning music theory will help you too.
Many medium to large cities have computer clubs
with graphs, animation, gamers, or artist interests.
Sometimes it is a special gamer club; other times a sub-group.
That way hobbyists compare their game projects with others and start getting paid work with game companies.
You'd be surprised how many small game companies there are all around the country.
The computer clubs I've been around have been full of gamers.
I first saw Phil on the net at his popular "Bill Gates Wealth" website. Besides website development he does a fair amount with photography and travelogues.
Hey, this is this first animal more complicated
than a worm to be sequenced. It turns out that
indvidual gene complexity is more significant
than number of genes when you get to mammals.
They were decoded a long time ago in the 1980s.
Fairly simple too- only about 17 proteins.
However very devilish in controlling- resisted
billions of dollars and decades of efforts.
We know so little about biochemistry, really.
This may sound like a unusual idea, but came up at a UC Boulder session(*) on science funding last Friday. A prominent SETI researcher was on the discussion panel and contrasting how his field was funded compared to more traditional hot fields like genomics and computer science. But then the half-joking question came up as to why doesn't a SETI organization float stock to fund research? However, the SETI researcher replied that people have seriously considered that. He said "imagine the financial worth of a discovery, especially if some advanced alien technology was communicated". Though the chance of success is very speculative, a SETI break-through stock play could make the InterNet stock bubble seem mild.
(*)The University of Colorado holds the week-long World Affairs Symposium each spring in Boulder. It assembles a couple hundred scientists, artists, policy makers and philosophers into 200 publicly open dicussion panels and workshops over the week.
SETI as "open source" science
on
Explaining SETI
·
· Score: 3
Astronomy has a long, rich history of important
contributions by amateurs (i.e. people who aren't
paid salaries for this work). And SETI may be the most distinctive and grand project in this line.
SETI has been an orphan of official goverment research funding. Investigators would cop a few hours here and there on radio telescopes. It finally garnered a few tenths of a percent of the NASA budget at one time, but was perodically the butt of "mad-science" jokes in Congress and finally terminated. However, it is as strong as ever from private individual funding, typically from computer entrepenuers such as Hewlitt and Paul Allen. University chip R&D project prototype new chip designs for SETI's insatiable signal processing needs.
SETI has also spawned the worlds largest hyper-computer and public-donated computing resource.
At last count there about 2.4 million SETI@home
screen savers out there, diligently searching for
spectral peaks in small chunks of radio recordings.
Contact - favorite SETI book
on
Explaining SETI
·
· Score: 2
I liked Sagan's (only intentional) sci-fi novel on SETI called "Contact". The book is better than the Jodi Foster movie based on it.. The first part of the book gives a reasonable scenario of how SETI happens.
The latter part of the book drifts into scientific and philosphical speculation,
tan may turn some people off.
See the Unfinished Revolution by MIT PRof Michael Dertouzos (inventor of structured programming)
for a description of Mercury and other MIT CS projects.
The P4 philosophy was that it wasn't going to be cost competitive at 1-2 GHz speeds, but will be
at 3-5 GHz speeds, due to better clock scaling.
But if Intel keeps on losing high-end market share,
this hope will be academic.
Happy 40th Man-in-space anniversary
on
Mir 2
·
· Score: 2
Use modern circuit etching technology on long-lived media such as corrosion resistant metal.
Etch text, not binary codes.
The future can read this with a computer or magnifying glass.
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't recommend doing this. In practice, negativity and bad will, even when justified, often backfires injuring the issuer.
These only look feasable for a few miles-
i.e. putting those high tension wires underground
in an urban area. Still need a power plant to
generate electricity.
The silver-dollar size 6MB disks can hold 6000
minutes of music, 2000 photographs, six hours
of video, and so on.
It is hard enough to "classify" modern people
based on bone structure, genetic markers,
physical features (if you have flesh).
Bones from ten thousand years ago are even harder.
K-man doesn't realy fit into any modern categories
acoording many researchers (see PBS special).
That PBS already has done a couple of documentaries
on this.
Telephones haven't reached this state yet, either. Witness these horrible office systems with dozens of numeric function codes and the archaic system of phone numbers. When they become the "communicators" of Star Trek by automatically routing your messages, then they will have become true communications devices.
The old technologies generally don't disappear, but merge and are transformed by the new technologies. Take agriculture for example. Food production is as important as ever, but can be done by one percent of the population instead of fifty percent. Although a ten-thousand year old technology, it has embraced and been transformed by metallurgy (plows), chemicals, energy, computers, biotech, corporate management, and telecommunications (e.g. knowing the position of a tractor or grain shipment at all times).
I've had a net email address since 1986,
had three major jobs in that time,
and seen bboards & ISPs rise and drop like flies.
An alumni organization is probably as stable as
anything else- one school been around since 1865
the other 1889. Funny, I don't use the two email-
addresses-for-life I got from them yet.
When some people were doing very well during the InterNet bubble, there was no shortage of articles admiring and envious of those smart and lucky to make a fortune.
Now during the downtown the media is going to the other extreme and amusing us on the misfortune and greed of others.
Many of the people in the article were living beyond their means and ripping off lenders. Considering the best place to find luxury cars in the article was swanky restaurants. If they cant pay thier loans, whey are they buting $100 meals?
Beside knowing computers a game must know how to tell a story and how to draw.
To tell a story learn literature and writing. The same story ideas and characters occur over and over again in history with new twists.
To draw learn drawing, painting, drafting, graphic design, film, multi-media, etc. You can never know too much art.
Games use sound too. So learning music theory will help you too.
Many medium to large cities have computer clubs with graphs, animation, gamers, or artist interests. Sometimes it is a special gamer club; other times a sub-group. That way hobbyists compare their game projects with others and start getting paid work with game companies. You'd be surprised how many small game companies there are all around the country. The computer clubs I've been around have been full of gamers.
I keep on reading about them, but don't people
selling devices based on them.
I first saw Phil on the net at his popular "Bill Gates Wealth" website. Besides website development he does a fair amount with photography and travelogues.
Hey, this is this first animal more complicated than a worm to be sequenced. It turns out that indvidual gene complexity is more significant than number of genes when you get to mammals.
They were decoded a long time ago in the 1980s. Fairly simple too- only about 17 proteins. However very devilish in controlling- resisted billions of dollars and decades of efforts.
We know so little about biochemistry, really.
Pioneered in the 1970s at Xerox Park. Inspired the first object-oriented language Simula from Norway.
This may sound like a unusual idea, but came up at a UC Boulder session(*) on science funding last Friday. A prominent SETI researcher was on the discussion panel and contrasting how his field was funded compared to more traditional hot fields like genomics and computer science. But then the half-joking question came up as to why doesn't a SETI organization float stock to fund research? However, the SETI researcher replied that people have seriously considered that. He said "imagine the financial worth of a discovery, especially if some advanced alien technology was communicated". Though the chance of success is very speculative, a SETI break-through stock play could make the InterNet stock bubble seem mild.
(*)The University of Colorado holds the week-long World Affairs Symposium each spring in Boulder. It assembles a couple hundred scientists, artists, policy makers and philosophers into 200 publicly open dicussion panels and workshops over the week.
Astronomy has a long, rich history of important contributions by amateurs (i.e. people who aren't paid salaries for this work). And SETI may be the most distinctive and grand project in this line.
SETI has been an orphan of official goverment research funding. Investigators would cop a few hours here and there on radio telescopes. It finally garnered a few tenths of a percent of the NASA budget at one time, but was perodically the butt of "mad-science" jokes in Congress and finally terminated. However, it is as strong as ever from private individual funding, typically from computer entrepenuers such as Hewlitt and Paul Allen. University chip R&D project prototype new chip designs for SETI's insatiable signal processing needs.
SETI has also spawned the worlds largest hyper-computer and public-donated computing resource. At last count there about 2.4 million SETI@home screen savers out there, diligently searching for spectral peaks in small chunks of radio recordings.
I liked Sagan's (only intentional) sci-fi novel on SETI called "Contact". The book is better than the Jodi Foster movie based on it.. The first part of the book gives a reasonable scenario of how SETI happens. The latter part of the book drifts into scientific and philosphical speculation, tan may turn some people off.
See the Unfinished Revolution by MIT PRof Michael Dertouzos (inventor of structured programming) for a description of Mercury and other MIT CS projects.
The P4 philosophy was that it wasn't going to be cost competitive at 1-2 GHz speeds, but will be
at 3-5 GHz speeds, due to better clock scaling.
But if Intel keeps on losing high-end market share,
this hope will be academic.
Today is the 40th anniversary of
manned spaceflight.
Warp .02 or impulse 7e-6 in Trek lingo.
Imagine all that relativistic shifting!
Use modern circuit etching technology on long-lived media such as corrosion resistant metal.
Etch text, not binary codes.
The future can read this with a computer or magnifying glass.