It may max out at 10GHz or so.
However gallium arsenide, indium something,
have potential considerably beyond 10GHz and
are being used for high speed D/A and optical
connections. The problem with the non-silicon
stuff is they are harder to fabricate in very
high integration. They tend to be two or more
integration genrations behind CMOS.
If the spelling is so disguised that napster cant
locate it, probably the customers wont too.
You'll probably get endless euphenisms for
popular songs like there for sex and drugs,
but you can control the bulk of things.
The core of our air force are the B-52 bombers,
now in their fifth decade. Projections have
them running into seventh or eighth decade until
they are cannabalized for structural parts.
At least most of the vacuum tubes have been
replaced by semiconductor electronics over the
years.
The magnetic field never goes to zero.
The overall intensity may go to about a third of
current. Several "mini-poles" may appear
and move about relatively quickly, making
compasses basically useless.
This is known from (1) measurement of volcanic
eruptions that occurred and became magnetized
during reversal periods. I believe there are two
cases. (2) Supercomputer simulations of earth's
magnetic dynamo.
Field strength fluctuates between 0.3 and 1.0
Gauss over past ten millennia according to
volcano and pottery measurements. We are now about
0.45 Gauss, having dropped 8% since 1800.
Nasa saved the Galileo Probe after its main
attenna failed using compression. The emergency
back up attenna has like one percent of the capacity of the main attenna or about the speed of Morse code.
Every couple months Galileo passes by one of
main moons and stores a dozen or two pictures
on the tape recorder. Then it transmits them
in compressed form over a day per image.
The Galileo computers were reprogrammed from
Earth to implement compression after attenna
failure.
Galileo acheived 70% of its objectives in the
main mission, and was extended several years.
The bottleneck to extension is not the resources
on Galileo but time on the Deep Space Network.
This is less of a problem due to the Mars probe
failures.
Re:Martian Chronicles happens now
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The Dot in .mars
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· Score: 2
Even sadder is 2001:Odyssey.
Both are technically and economically possible,
but we lack the societal will.
This is the topic of two recent scifi works.
Silverberg's "The Alien Years" is about an
alien conquest via an EMP pulse. Aliens control
the earth for a century, but they don't interact
much with humans.
Digital signals and boolean calculas seems "obvious" to
us now, but not so in the 1930s when a binary
switching tube cost dollars instead of micro-cents
today.
Was digital a "pregnant idea" about to be discovered
by nyone half-way smart,
or would it take a really smart person to accelerate the discovery?
The Viking landers found excess oxygen in the
martian soils, indicating there might be life.
Then scientists discovered inorganic chemical
reactions in martian-like environment that could
cause this.
Dolphins resemble humans in a couple aspects:
First they both talk incessentantly, far more than
is needed for survival. Second, they both have
sex far more than needed for procreation.
Perhaps they'd undersatnd each other's bawdy jokes.
Vision physiologists have determined that
4K x 4K grids are about the finest you can see.
They run testest displaying sine wave stripes
at various wavelengths, color contrasts and distances. Less if there is a lot of motion, dark, or little color contrast.
This discovery concerns the Permian extinction
300 mya. Only fishies then. Lot fewer afterwards,
The dinosaur extinction is 65 million years ago.
The Snowball earth is 600 mya.
There could be dozens of these catstropic events
in Earth'd four billion years.
There is genetic variety evidence that some species
appear to be descended from a very small population.
Chetahs are one example, with all current individuals
nearly clones of each other.
Humans are another example, with evidence of an
Adam/Eve population about 200,000 years ago of
less than 10,000.
These bottlenecks, such as caused by meteors,
may drive rapid periods of evolution.
Science is perpetual doubting,
sorting out what is supported and what isn't.
Scientific theories have changed considerably
during my lifetime and will continue,
yet that is the way I choose to "know" things.
Just in the last month, the genome theory made
considerable adjustments. First, humans have
a smallish number of genes, a quarter of previously
believed. Second, we may not be able to discover
all the genes due to their complexity. There are
introna and exons, poly-expression of several to thousands
of different proteins per gene.
I would not doubt if ideas change significantly again in a few years.
At the time of Darwin and Huxley there
were no known fossils between apes and humans.
However, now there are dozens of hominoid
supspecies going back continuously for six
million years.
In fact there are too many "missing links".
The issue is sorting out likely ancestors versus
side branches.
It will be interesting to see how unique human
DNA is. The next "highest" animals fully sequenced
have been a a worm and a fly.
The lab mouse DNA should be published later this year
and will make and interesting comparison.
can they make a movie/docudrama of it?
on
Rebel Code
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· Score: 2
Like Revenge of the Nerds, Pt 1, Pt 2?
According to the "rules of drama" you got have
a dramatic conflict, interesting characters,
and a climax. In the nerd series the conflict
was newcomers versus the establishment and each other.
There is no shortage of eccentrics like Jobs,
Gates, McNealy, and Andraessen.
The climax has usuallly been someone getting
fabulously rich off their products.
This book has the first two. I'm sure if the
process has a climax yet.
The movie "Antri-trust" had open-source as a
secondary subplot and climax.
In this case the key is the start time of the
"infinite" encoding key. The start time has to
be agreed and transmitted between parties.
:-(:-(:-(:-(
we've been shipping for over a year
on
Inside XML
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· Score: 2
Several our products use XML as a scripting
control language, parameter management, and
report generation. It's not the core technology
but useful. It is not necessarily the best
featured way of performing these functions,
but from a life-cycle maintenance point of view.
We need things likely to be around for ten years.
Slashdot Mirror
The second Startrek seires could be called
"yuppies in space". The newest Roddenberry spinoff
Andromeda is "GenX in space".
It may max out at 10GHz or so.
However gallium arsenide, indium something,
have potential considerably beyond 10GHz and
are being used for high speed D/A and optical
connections. The problem with the non-silicon
stuff is they are harder to fabricate in very
high integration. They tend to be two or more
integration genrations behind CMOS.
If the spelling is so disguised that napster cant
locate it, probably the customers wont too.
You'll probably get endless euphenisms for
popular songs like there for sex and drugs,
but you can control the bulk of things.
Other people might find a use.
You sound like the IBM guy in the 1950s who
could figure out why the world would ever
need more than seven computers.
The core of our air force are the B-52 bombers,
now in their fifth decade. Projections have
them running into seventh or eighth decade until
they are cannabalized for structural parts.
At least most of the vacuum tubes have been
replaced by semiconductor electronics over the
years.
Germany, Bosnia, Chechnya, all went rural during
the height of war.
The magnetic field never goes to zero.
The overall intensity may go to about a third of
current. Several "mini-poles" may appear
and move about relatively quickly, making
compasses basically useless.
This is known from (1) measurement of volcanic
eruptions that occurred and became magnetized
during reversal periods. I believe there are two
cases. (2) Supercomputer simulations of earth's
magnetic dynamo.
Field strength fluctuates between 0.3 and 1.0
Gauss over past ten millennia according to
volcano and pottery measurements. We are now about
0.45 Gauss, having dropped 8% since 1800.
Nasa saved the Galileo Probe after its main
attenna failed using compression. The emergency
back up attenna has like one percent of the capacity of the main attenna or about the speed of Morse code.
Every couple months Galileo passes by one of
main moons and stores a dozen or two pictures
on the tape recorder. Then it transmits them
in compressed form over a day per image.
The Galileo computers were reprogrammed from
Earth to implement compression after attenna
failure.
Galileo acheived 70% of its objectives in the
main mission, and was extended several years.
The bottleneck to extension is not the resources
on Galileo but time on the Deep Space Network.
This is less of a problem due to the Mars probe
failures.
Even sadder is 2001:Odyssey.
Both are technically and economically possible,
but we lack the societal will.
Its so infrequent that I can even recall the
last click through- ThinkGeek on this site.
I guess this is about one in ten thousand response.
This is the topic of two recent scifi works.
Silverberg's "The Alien Years" is about an
alien conquest via an EMP pulse. Aliens control
the earth for a century, but they don't interact
much with humans.
The new TV show Dark Angel is post-EMP apocalyse.
When re-reading Ray Bradbury's seminal work
recently, I niced most of the dates were
between 1999 - 2006.
Digital signals and boolean calculas seems "obvious" to
us now, but not so in the 1930s when a binary
switching tube cost dollars instead of micro-cents
today.
Was digital a "pregnant idea" about to be discovered
by nyone half-way smart,
or would it take a really smart person to accelerate the discovery?
The Viking landers found excess oxygen in the
martian soils, indicating there might be life.
Then scientists discovered inorganic chemical
reactions in martian-like environment that could
cause this.
We'll need stronger evidence.
Dolphins resemble humans in a couple aspects:
First they both talk incessentantly, far more than
is needed for survival. Second, they both have
sex far more than needed for procreation.
Perhaps they'd undersatnd each other's bawdy jokes.
Capitalism doesn't prosper because is it is the nicest
or most logical system, but the most successfully
expansive. It grows beyond everyhting else.
Vision physiologists have determined that
4K x 4K grids are about the finest you can see.
They run testest displaying sine wave stripes
at various wavelengths, color contrasts and distances. Less if there is a lot of motion, dark, or little color contrast.
This discovery concerns the Permian extinction
300 mya. Only fishies then. Lot fewer afterwards,
The dinosaur extinction is 65 million years ago.
The Snowball earth is 600 mya.
There could be dozens of these catstropic events
in Earth'd four billion years.
There is genetic variety evidence that some species
appear to be descended from a very small population.
Chetahs are one example, with all current individuals
nearly clones of each other.
Humans are another example, with evidence of an
Adam/Eve population about 200,000 years ago of
less than 10,000.
These bottlenecks, such as caused by meteors,
may drive rapid periods of evolution.
Science is perpetual doubting,
sorting out what is supported and what isn't.
Scientific theories have changed considerably
during my lifetime and will continue,
yet that is the way I choose to "know" things.
Just in the last month, the genome theory made
considerable adjustments. First, humans have
a smallish number of genes, a quarter of previously
believed. Second, we may not be able to discover
all the genes due to their complexity. There are
introna and exons, poly-expression of several to thousands
of different proteins per gene.
I would not doubt if ideas change significantly again in a few years.
At the time of Darwin and Huxley there
were no known fossils between apes and humans.
However, now there are dozens of hominoid
supspecies going back continuously for six
million years.
In fact there are too many "missing links".
The issue is sorting out likely ancestors versus
side branches.
It will be interesting to see how unique human
DNA is. The next "highest" animals fully sequenced
have been a a worm and a fly.
The lab mouse DNA should be published later this year
and will make and interesting comparison.
Like Revenge of the Nerds, Pt 1, Pt 2?
According to the "rules of drama" you got have
a dramatic conflict, interesting characters,
and a climax. In the nerd series the conflict
was newcomers versus the establishment and each other.
There is no shortage of eccentrics like Jobs,
Gates, McNealy, and Andraessen.
The climax has usuallly been someone getting
fabulously rich off their products.
This book has the first two. I'm sure if the
process has a climax yet.
The movie "Antri-trust" had open-source as a
secondary subplot and climax.
In this case the key is the start time of the
:-( :-( :-(
"infinite" encoding key. The start time has to
be agreed and transmitted between parties.
:-(
Several our products use XML as a scripting
control language, parameter management, and
report generation. It's not the core technology
but useful. It is not necessarily the best
featured way of performing these functions,
but from a life-cycle maintenance point of view.
We need things likely to be around for ten years.