Goedel's proof just states that it is impossible
for a symbolic logical system ot be 100% consistent.
But what about 99.99999%?
These other guys try to quantify how good or bad
a system can be.
ALmost halfway back to the first rockets,
Kubrick and Clarke made the 2001 movie.
Halfway back the APollo program was in full swing.
Not a whole lot of progress since then,
considering most of Kubrick's technology is feasable.
They switched OS GUIs from home-grown to Sun-NEWS
to XWindows to keep up with the time.
They toyed with NT, but that couldn't be as
competative as the clone makers.
So why not Linux?
I read it two days ago. I thought the narrow
topic wouldn't last 300 some pages, but the
personalities of the participants were fascinating.
It is the classic case of big-brother versus
individual genius. Not one instance, but over
and over again as the NSA/CIA pulls the wool over
our eyes.
Psuedo-sociologists like Katz get excited about
about events in their short lives and lose the
overall long-term picture.
The communications revolution has been steadily
progressing since the invention of the telegraph
in 1844. The telegraph spawned two elements:
intaneous communication and mass media (newspapers).
Everything since has been an elaboration.
These issues have occured before and will occur
again.
The best heating measurement is to measure the
average temperature of the oceans. Local measurements
are distorted by human effects and local currents.
The speed of sound in water directly depends on
temperature.
Scientists proposed measuring the sound speed (and
temperature) in the highly transparent sofar zone
accross entire oceans.
The source would be a relatively loud, chirp sent
for hundreds of seconds.
Experiments have showed it works. However, a
systematic implementation of this measurement has
been delayed because of complaints this may hurt
marine life ears.
The TOPEX laser altimeter satellite has measured
a steadily increasing sea level over the past ten
years of a few millimeters per year. Most of it
is attributed to thermal expansion of the ocean
with a minor contribution from glacial melting.
Almost no one drills straight down anyone.
Holes bend outward from a drilling platform, snake
along curved salt interfaces, go horizontal to
maximize the number porous cracks, and so on.
I wonder how easy it is to bend laser holes?
Much of the drilling occurs in remote Russia,
remote western US, offshore, where trucking in
high density energy sources is difficult.
Conventional gasoline and rotary drills are easier.
They have a similar problem, since they are
illegal in most states.
The US governemnt has gone after the principals.
They either stop business or emigrate under indictment.
Because the last high part of the cycle was so
long (1994 - 2000) people, especially newbies,
forgot it has recessions too. The last big
downturn was in the early 90s, mainly tied to the
collapse of the defense industry after the Soviet
Union broke up. ANd before that there was collapse
in a smaller startup speculative bubble in the PC
hardware industry. ANd so on.
A professor uses the Iridium network to map
the flows of magnetic field around the earth.
It is particularly interesting this year because
it is a Solar Maximum with magnetic storms
emanating from the Sun now and then.
Each Iridium Satelite contains a magnetometer
for helping keep them oriented.
The core practice is talking about things
while attached to a fairly simple
skin resistance meter.
A good teacher is supposed to be able to
purge the effects of bad experiences.
The goal is "clear" which may take decades
and kilobucks.
Some fairly intelligent-seeming people swear
this helps them while others feel scammed.
How this became emeshed in a religion,
other people have explanations.
I haven't heard of many clever ones lately.
(I am an alumnus from the 1970s.)
Some possible explanations:
(1) The student body is much rounded with nearly
half women, lots of non-white, non-middle class.
These groups are more into studying and less into
hacking.
(2) Shifting attention from the physical to virtual.
You see more hacks happening on computers rather
than buildings.
This is a little offbeat, but the comment reminds
of a situation when I lived in Peking China 20
years ago. For a few months there was spot near
the West Point shopping center where people could
paste whatever papers they wanted. It was not
too far from one of hotels the foreign media
was confined to at that time, so material on that
wall started making it into the international
press. Initially most of the material were petty
complaints about bureaucrats who messed up peoples
lives during the cultural revolution not long
before that. Then some more serious anti-government stuff appeared.
Most signed with pseudonyms, though the police
photographed everyone in the act of posting something.
At first the stuff seemed genuine, but then it
got hard to tell if it was false slander,
government plants and the like.
The foreign press called it Democracy Wall because
it seemed to be showing human rights and freedom
of speech. The locals just called it the West Point Wall
(Xidian Cheng) after the location.
Well, it was closed down after a few months because
the government couldn't figure out what to make
of it, nor control it.
In the most part specialized computer appliances
such as ebooks, email machines, pdas, game baoxes, etc fail
because people keep on wanting to add full OS
functionality to them. So putting Linux-lite or
Window-lite on these is the way to go.
MicroSoft knows this well.
The Net circa 1994 was eye-opening.
Those of us using usenet which was mainly
academic was invaded by AOL and webtv newbies.
The discussions definately downscaled then.
I don't think going from 30% to 90% usage is
going to be as traumatic.
The concept of "the force" closely resembles that
of Qi (pronounced "chee", also spelled chi, ji, ki, prana in various dialects).
The Qi permeates our bodies and the environment.
In proper harmony it can be very powerful.
QiQong, TaiChi, Akido, Falun Dafa, FengShui
is a shortl ist of some of the movements that
harmonize Qi.
The sping scifi convention in my town is
the first one I can recall in a dozen years
there is no actor from a Star Trek series or
movie appearing. The francise appears to be
winding down.
Slashdot Mirror
Gollum will by CGI. The Balog, perhaps some of
the others too.
Goedel's proof just states that it is impossible
for a symbolic logical system ot be 100% consistent.
But what about 99.99999%?
These other guys try to quantify how good or bad
a system can be.
AI wont come out of an university lab,
but in a clever entertainment computing program
like Sims, some game-playing software, or toy-bot.
ALmost halfway back to the first rockets,
Kubrick and Clarke made the 2001 movie.
Halfway back the APollo program was in full swing.
Not a whole lot of progress since then,
considering most of Kubrick's technology is feasable.
They switched OS GUIs from home-grown to Sun-NEWS
to XWindows to keep up with the time.
They toyed with NT, but that couldn't be as
competative as the clone makers.
So why not Linux?
I read it two days ago. I thought the narrow
topic wouldn't last 300 some pages, but the
personalities of the participants were fascinating.
It is the classic case of big-brother versus
individual genius. Not one instance, but over
and over again as the NSA/CIA pulls the wool over
our eyes.
Psuedo-sociologists like Katz get excited about
about events in their short lives and lose the
overall long-term picture.
The communications revolution has been steadily
progressing since the invention of the telegraph
in 1844. The telegraph spawned two elements:
intaneous communication and mass media (newspapers).
Everything since has been an elaboration.
These issues have occured before and will occur
again.
Less winter.
The immense tundras of Canada and Russia become
huge agricultural areas to feed the world.
The best heating measurement is to measure the
average temperature of the oceans. Local measurements
are distorted by human effects and local currents.
The speed of sound in water directly depends on
temperature.
Scientists proposed measuring the sound speed (and
temperature) in the highly transparent sofar zone
accross entire oceans.
The source would be a relatively loud, chirp sent
for hundreds of seconds.
Experiments have showed it works. However, a
systematic implementation of this measurement has
been delayed because of complaints this may hurt
marine life ears.
The TOPEX laser altimeter satellite has measured
a steadily increasing sea level over the past ten
years of a few millimeters per year. Most of it
is attributed to thermal expansion of the ocean
with a minor contribution from glacial melting.
Almost no one drills straight down anyone.
Holes bend outward from a drilling platform, snake
along curved salt interfaces, go horizontal to
maximize the number porous cracks, and so on.
I wonder how easy it is to bend laser holes?
Much of the drilling occurs in remote Russia,
remote western US, offshore, where trucking in
high density energy sources is difficult.
Conventional gasoline and rotary drills are easier.
They have a similar problem, since they are
illegal in most states.
The US governemnt has gone after the principals.
They either stop business or emigrate under indictment.
Because the last high part of the cycle was so
long (1994 - 2000) people, especially newbies,
forgot it has recessions too. The last big
downturn was in the early 90s, mainly tied to the
collapse of the defense industry after the Soviet
Union broke up. ANd before that there was collapse
in a smaller startup speculative bubble in the PC
hardware industry. ANd so on.
A professor uses the Iridium network to map
the flows of magnetic field around the earth.
It is particularly interesting this year because
it is a Solar Maximum with magnetic storms
emanating from the Sun now and then.
Each Iridium Satelite contains a magnetometer
for helping keep them oriented.
The core practice is talking about things
while attached to a fairly simple
skin resistance meter.
A good teacher is supposed to be able to
purge the effects of bad experiences.
The goal is "clear" which may take decades
and kilobucks.
Some fairly intelligent-seeming people swear
this helps them while others feel scammed.
How this became emeshed in a religion,
other people have explanations.
My company dumps products that dont return at
least 30%.
I haven't heard of many clever ones lately.
(I am an alumnus from the 1970s.)
Some possible explanations:
(1) The student body is much rounded with nearly
half women, lots of non-white, non-middle class.
These groups are more into studying and less into
hacking.
(2) Shifting attention from the physical to virtual.
You see more hacks happening on computers rather
than buildings.
This is a little offbeat, but the comment reminds
of a situation when I lived in Peking China 20
years ago. For a few months there was spot near
the West Point shopping center where people could
paste whatever papers they wanted. It was not
too far from one of hotels the foreign media
was confined to at that time, so material on that
wall started making it into the international
press. Initially most of the material were petty
complaints about bureaucrats who messed up peoples
lives during the cultural revolution not long
before that. Then some more serious anti-government stuff appeared.
Most signed with pseudonyms, though the police
photographed everyone in the act of posting something.
At first the stuff seemed genuine, but then it
got hard to tell if it was false slander,
government plants and the like.
The foreign press called it Democracy Wall because
it seemed to be showing human rights and freedom
of speech. The locals just called it the West Point Wall
(Xidian Cheng) after the location.
Well, it was closed down after a few months because
the government couldn't figure out what to make
of it, nor control it.
In the most part specialized computer appliances
such as ebooks, email machines, pdas, game baoxes, etc fail
because people keep on wanting to add full OS
functionality to them. So putting Linux-lite or
Window-lite on these is the way to go.
MicroSoft knows this well.
The Net circa 1994 was eye-opening.
Those of us using usenet which was mainly
academic was invaded by AOL and webtv newbies.
The discussions definately downscaled then.
I don't think going from 30% to 90% usage is
going to be as traumatic.
The concept of "the force" closely resembles that
of Qi (pronounced "chee", also spelled chi, ji, ki, prana in various dialects).
The Qi permeates our bodies and the environment.
In proper harmony it can be very powerful.
QiQong, TaiChi, Akido, Falun Dafa, FengShui
is a shortl ist of some of the movements that
harmonize Qi.
People been worying about this since the 1980s.
Speeds get faster; chip dies get larger;
far of units get out of sync.
The sping scifi convention in my town is
the first one I can recall in a dozen years
there is no actor from a Star Trek series or
movie appearing. The francise appears to be
winding down.