The early uProcessor market almost died due to
massive failures in consumer electronics such
as overproduction of hand calculators and early
computer games. A few intrepid companies like
Intel kept the faith.
No reason why human beings should be more complex
than other living beings, especially vertebrates,
since we all experienced four billion years of
evolution. Just different.
The total number of genes in mammals seems to be
not much more than twice that of invertibrates,
but individually they've become more complex.
Mammalian genes have more dead spots,
code for multiple proteins, and so one.
I was disappointed that there wasn't
a good count of human genes yet,
compared to the simpler genes of the fly and worm.
But it is the complexity that isn't well understood yet.
The 2nd series, The New Generation, resembled
"yuppies in space". Most of the characters were
30-somethings in the early 90s. They were upscale
and concerned about their careers, like yuppies.
Another Roddenbery-derived series- Andromeda-
resembles GenX in space. It has 20,30-somethings
of the current era. Includes geek, slacker
and artistic types.
The trend in high schools and lower is to increase
standardized tests in order to hold them more
accountable. This drive is being led by
conservative voters.
Some colleges such Berkeley are going the opposite
way. Liberal administrators accuse testing of
discriminating against the disadvantaged.
Several of the newsmagazine shows mention tissue
brokers who make tens of thousands of dollars
recycling human corpse tissue. The most popular
tissue is collagen for plastic surgery. Demand
for this is such that burn hospitals have problems
getting enough cadaver skin. There have been
occasional deceptions to families and individuals
donating cadavers, i.e under the guise of medical
research.
US sperm banks do a booming international business.
Many customers like the image of Americans they
see in the media and want children like that.
Fetal tissue is the next big market for marrow
tranplants for cancer and
and nerve tissue transplants for Parkinsons.
Medical research may manufacture these in clone
tissue factories, but aren't that far along yet.
I recall from old catholic lessons on sin that
mere action is not necessarily a sin.
Necessary mental components include:
(1) UNDERSTANDING there is a "wrongness"- deceit,
hurt, selfishness, etc. Just because there may not
be "an entry in the book" doesn't mean it isn't wrong.
An adult would understand wrongness better
than a child.
(2) INTENT to perform the wrong action.
Accidents aren't necessarily sin.
(3) TAKING STEPS to perform the wrong action.
Lust in one's heart isn't necessarily bad.
Trying to cheat on the computer, but failing is.
So under several circumstances computer sex can be wrong.
Out legal code takes some mental state into account,
but catholics allow more guilt and leeway.
In this fluid job market and company formation,
there have been a lot of times former co-workers
have become co-workers again in a different company.
Else they become vendors and customers.
Even if you move to other states and countries.
So don't say too many negative things that may haunt you in the future. I know from experience.
The NY Times Sunday magazine has an <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20010204mag-legalman.html"> article </A>
on this phenomenom.
The author claims the less class structure in society,
the more laws take over. Thats the price.
Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science; The Stanford guy who wrote the prototype for XWindows and Motif; The founder of one of two top desktop publishing companies and so on...
A recent demographic study found a very high
correlation of gay meccas with high tech centers.
Is this not really true? Or something "in the air" in central California that puts a San Francisco and Silicon Valley next to each other?
Some about the gay male mind that makes sense of digitals patterns more easily?
Jim Clark's medical information company before
merger with WebMD had this business model.
Jim Clark found SGI and Netscape.
Healtheon/WebMD is still floundering.
In the early 90s, when the space shuttle
were using computers designed around 1980,
their specification sounded rediculously primitive, including core memory.
Some of the astronauts were carrying laptops
that were hundreds of times more powerful.
The shuttle computers have been ugraded since.
Core memory is considered more reliable than
semiconductor memory in the space radiation
environment.
The current issue of Amerian Scientist has an
article about a British meterologist who conducted
the first finite-difference weather prediction
calculation in the 1920s using a room full of
people with adding machines. The motive for this
was there were a few very dense measurements
of weather data during the Great War,
and Prof. Richardson wanted to see if it was predictable.
Richard Feymann in "Surely you aren't joking"
mentions a human calculation room for a-bomb
modeling at Los Alamos in the 1940s.
Even smaller, but not auto-mobile.
They have some power, computation and comm-link
on a chip the size of a piece of glitter.
Each might make a single measurement of some type,
but be deployed in thousands or millions.
People have been building some of these.
<P>Frankenstein is generally considered the first
"what-if" book based on a scientific principle.
<A HREF="http://www.desert-fairy.com/franken.shtml"&g t; Here </A> is a reference.
This novel was written in the <A HREF="http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_ce nter/early_history_electricity.html"> early days </A>
of electricty between Franklin's kite experiment in 1747 and the electic motor in 1820.
</P>
The <A HREF="http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.mb.txt"> first law </A> of entertainment is to have a conflict drive the plot.
The better techie movies have character conflicts
at their core. Pirates of Silicon Valley is one
about the rivalry of the PC founders. Anti-trust
was another with a conflict between an evil
closed-source mogul and a open-source newbie.
No, I still see metal, perhaps more exoctic than
CMOS, as chips get ever more powerful.
CMOS has been dominant for the past 25 years,
mainly fir the amount of device intergration.
Bipolar and GaAS had speed niches, but never
approached the commerical device count.
People are still trying however.
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The early uProcessor market almost died due to
massive failures in consumer electronics such
as overproduction of hand calculators and early
computer games. A few intrepid companies like
Intel kept the faith.
>They also neglect to mention 97% of DNA is non-coding,
>it's not used for protein production. So that 2% is a great difference.
Not if the differences are evenly distributed,
which they seem close to be.
Also, last weeks results upped the 97% numebr to 99%.
No reason why human beings should be more complex
than other living beings, especially vertebrates,
since we all experienced four billion years of
evolution. Just different.
Aggreed. Aristotle wrote a summary of kinds of
plots 2300 years ago in his essay "Poetics".
And authors still pretty much fit into his scheme.
The total number of genes in mammals seems to be
not much more than twice that of invertibrates,
but individually they've become more complex.
Mammalian genes have more dead spots,
code for multiple proteins, and so one.
I was disappointed that there wasn't
a good count of human genes yet,
compared to the simpler genes of the fly and worm.
But it is the complexity that isn't well understood yet.
The 2nd series, The New Generation, resembled
"yuppies in space". Most of the characters were
30-somethings in the early 90s. They were upscale
and concerned about their careers, like yuppies.
Another Roddenbery-derived series- Andromeda-
resembles GenX in space. It has 20,30-somethings
of the current era. Includes geek, slacker
and artistic types.
The first Star Trek series was pre-boomer.
No one loses as much as a coward.
The trend in high schools and lower is to increase
standardized tests in order to hold them more
accountable. This drive is being led by
conservative voters.
Some colleges such Berkeley are going the opposite
way. Liberal administrators accuse testing of
discriminating against the disadvantaged.
Several of the newsmagazine shows mention tissue
brokers who make tens of thousands of dollars
recycling human corpse tissue. The most popular
tissue is collagen for plastic surgery. Demand
for this is such that burn hospitals have problems
getting enough cadaver skin. There have been
occasional deceptions to families and individuals
donating cadavers, i.e under the guise of medical
research.
US sperm banks do a booming international business.
Many customers like the image of Americans they
see in the media and want children like that.
Fetal tissue is the next big market for marrow
tranplants for cancer and
and nerve tissue transplants for Parkinsons.
Medical research may manufacture these in clone
tissue factories, but aren't that far along yet.
I recall from old catholic lessons on sin that
mere action is not necessarily a sin.
Necessary mental components include:
(1) UNDERSTANDING there is a "wrongness"- deceit,
hurt, selfishness, etc. Just because there may not
be "an entry in the book" doesn't mean it isn't wrong.
An adult would understand wrongness better
than a child.
(2) INTENT to perform the wrong action.
Accidents aren't necessarily sin.
(3) TAKING STEPS to perform the wrong action.
Lust in one's heart isn't necessarily bad.
Trying to cheat on the computer, but failing is.
So under several circumstances computer sex can be wrong.
Out legal code takes some mental state into account,
but catholics allow more guilt and leeway.
In this fluid job market and company formation,
there have been a lot of times former co-workers
have become co-workers again in a different company.
Else they become vendors and customers.
Even if you move to other states and countries.
So don't say too many negative things that may haunt you in the future. I know from experience.
The NY Times Sunday magazine has an <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home /20010204mag-legalman.html"> article </A>
on this phenomenom.
The author claims the less class structure in society,
the more laws take over. Thats the price.
Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science; The Stanford guy who wrote the prototype for XWindows and Motif; The founder of one of two top desktop publishing companies and so on ...
A recent demographic study found a very high
correlation of gay meccas with high tech centers.
Is this not really true? Or something "in the air" in central California that puts a San Francisco and Silicon Valley next to each other?
Some about the gay male mind that makes sense of digitals patterns more easily?
Starting early this year, aren't we?
Jim Clark's medical information company before
merger with WebMD had this business model.
Jim Clark found SGI and Netscape.
Healtheon/WebMD is still floundering.
In the early 90s, when the space shuttle
were using computers designed around 1980,
their specification sounded rediculously primitive, including core memory.
Some of the astronauts were carrying laptops
that were hundreds of times more powerful.
The shuttle computers have been ugraded since.
Core memory is considered more reliable than
semiconductor memory in the space radiation
environment.
The current issue of Amerian Scientist has an
article about a British meterologist who conducted
the first finite-difference weather prediction
calculation in the 1920s using a room full of
people with adding machines. The motive for this
was there were a few very dense measurements
of weather data during the Great War,
and Prof. Richardson wanted to see if it was predictable.
Richard Feymann in "Surely you aren't joking"
mentions a human calculation room for a-bomb
modeling at Los Alamos in the 1940s.
Even smaller, but not auto-mobile.
They have some power, computation and comm-link
on a chip the size of a piece of glitter.
Each might make a single measurement of some type,
but be deployed in thousands or millions.
People have been building some of these.
A US insurance companyis selling insurance
pricd to one's driving habits- distance, urban/rural, time-of-day, etc.
The metering device is GPS.
<P>Frankenstein is generally considered the firstg t; Here </A> is a reference.
e nter/early_history_electricity.html"> early days </A>
"what-if" book based on a scientific principle.
<A HREF="http://www.desert-fairy.com/franken.shtml"&
This novel was written in the <A HREF="http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_c
of electricty between Franklin's kite experiment in 1747 and the electic motor in 1820.
</P>
According todays LA Times.
Lots of misses and false matches.
The <A HREF="http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.mb .txt"> first law </A> of entertainment is to have a conflict drive the plot.
The better techie movies have character conflicts
at their core. Pirates of Silicon Valley is one
about the rivalry of the PC founders. Anti-trust
was another with a conflict between an evil
closed-source mogul and a open-source newbie.
Not only do the servers consume kilowatts of power,
but require kilowats of air conditioning.
No, I still see metal, perhaps more exoctic than
CMOS, as chips get ever more powerful.
CMOS has been dominant for the past 25 years,
mainly fir the amount of device intergration.
Bipolar and GaAS had speed niches, but never
approached the commerical device count.
People are still trying however.
The current success rate is just 2% for mammals.
Work it out on Fido and Fluffy first.