Despite all this talk about biological chemicals
in space and exponentially increasing databanks
of biochemical compounds, no one has succeeded
in constructing living matter from raw chemicals.
That would be the ultimate understanding of life.
PC, wired InterNet connections were stymied by
expensive national telcos, limited infrastucture,
and english-based apps. In the US wireless is
stymied by a lack of a national standard.
It remains to be seen whether US customers will
be swayed by the rather limited user interfaces
of wireless compared to the decent PC stuff they
get now. In Asian cuntries the wired stuff was
worse.
An old MicroSoft tactic done again and again.
Sun didn't help. They made it hard to remedy
the flaws in Java by locking up the standards.
Politics aside, I think C#/NET is the first
interesting development platform from a company
that originated as a languages company (before
OS, apps, and games). COM was really horrible,
dubbed "C--" by my colleagues. C# fixes various
flaws in C, C++, and Java (mostly stealing from
Java). The main hesitation I have is that MS has
no serious plans to port it to non-MS platforms,
instead relying on flighty third parties. If I
was starting a new product, I would do I in C#/NET,
mainly from the power of the system.
Bill's net worth has fluctated between $28G and
$104G the past 12 months. He gave away $22G the
past two years, approximately a quarter of his net worth at the time.
This is the most privatized genome sequenced to date. The company does not intend to submit
results to public databases as all previous
sequencings have done, include the human.
They will make small piece availabe to academic
investigators who request. However, it can be
had to knwo what you want.
Getting sufficent testing resources is the bottleneck in our company and paces our releases.
The upper management doesn't believe in hiring
lots of testers, and people don't like being
full-time testers for long.
Code redesign has to be aligned with testing resources.
Our company has a ratio of 1:4 testers:developers.
MicroSoft advises 1:1. However they have a
hundred as many customers as we do.
Might want to re-engineering your data abstractions (objects) and process flow.
In our yearly release cycles we try to get
in a months worth at the beginning of cycle.
Sometimes deceive the project manager and do
it under the guise of development.
A design cycle might be:
(1) Specification: one month
(2) Development: four months
(3) Testing & bug fixing: four months
(4) cleanup, shipping and vacations: one month
Sneak in refactoring between stages 1 & 2.
Called identical twins.
Maybe 50% of personality is genetic and other 50%
is life experiences. Identical twins will have
somewhat similar personalities from genetics and
being raised together.
CMOS camera chips are much cheaper to make than
the conventional charge couple time. Moderate
resolution ones can be manufactured for a couple
dollars. These are the chips you see in Barbie's
Camera, watch camera's, som computer cams etc.
You can put such cameras everywhere for minimal cost.
The movie followed the book to closely: (1) too heavy on ideas, (2) too short on action, (3) way too many subplots (and duration). Many families with kids walked out early and I got a sore butt.
Speilberg won't make these mistakes.
The Windows Internet platform defaults to so many
aspects of microsoft.com- hotmail, passport, msn,
outlook- and is mostly disabled today. You'd
think that the company that wants to become the
NET computing platform would have better reliability
and defence against hacking.
telegraph most significant innovation
on
100 Years of Radio
·
· Score: 2
The telegraph was the first lightspeed global
information media. Everything since has been
an elaboration. The culmination will be personal
interactive video everywhere with seamless communication
between humans and vast computer media databases.
This expected to be fully implemented about two
centuries after the telegraph.
C# is my favorite dialect of object-oriented C.
It fixes a few flaws in Java, while emulating
most of it.
The chief drawback is that MicroSoft is doing
almost nothing to promote it on non-MS platforms.
InterNet growth will continue until there is
interactive video of broadcat TV quality or better
everywhere- office, school, home, vehicle.
This is the natural human-communications-computer
interface. We still have a way to go to figure
out computer-video interfaces. Text interfaces
are a passing form, mainly for academic use.
The signal would be designed to technological
level of receiving race they desired.
Could be a relatively simple signal if they want
to reach a lot of races or very sophiscated if
they wanted a high tech level.
Humans would notice patterns in light signals
thousands of years ago; radio only 75 years ago;
and some known physics not yet.
Basically you are responsible for educating yourself.
However, there is so much out there, that someone
who shows the way and cuts through the trivia
is valuable.
Been studied for many years since the mid 90s
when the teraflop barrier was surpassed.
Moore's Law predicts a factor of a thousand more
or less in 15 years. The issues were whether
conventional hardware and software development
would make this next jump of a thousand,
on radical new inventions would be needed.
Currently it looks like the existing trend
should squeak by, but physics will impede the
next jump of a thousand to exaflops.
The US government generally is the only client
with the funds to push computings' edge, i.e.
that is systems over $20 million dollars.
That buys 10 terflops now and by 2010 a petaflop.
Now and then an industry will be doing good enough
to buy the large machines- drugs, oil, Hollywood,
but that is transient. The government has been
supporting advanced computing since computers
were invented around WWII, instutionalized in
DARPA and the National Labs.
The drug industry is the only private industry
segment that can afford $100 million computing
initiatives. Many of those fancy new drugs cost
hundreds of dollars per month per prescription.
How do you know that the Times is not an adaptive
web site? Perhaps reporters get a performance
rating on whether the article is clicked,
and clicked through the last page.
Slashdot Mirror
Indentical twins silly.
These clones will be less than identical,
because the clone will not grow up in the
same environment.
Despite all this talk about biological chemicals
in space and exponentially increasing databanks
of biochemical compounds, no one has succeeded
in constructing living matter from raw chemicals.
That would be the ultimate understanding of life.
I think it is the earliest, being
around 1989, and before the web.
It operated before Berners-Lee web.
So it is patented.
PC, wired InterNet connections were stymied by
expensive national telcos, limited infrastucture,
and english-based apps. In the US wireless is
stymied by a lack of a national standard.
It remains to be seen whether US customers will
be swayed by the rather limited user interfaces
of wireless compared to the decent PC stuff they
get now. In Asian cuntries the wired stuff was
worse.
An old MicroSoft tactic done again and again.
Sun didn't help. They made it hard to remedy
the flaws in Java by locking up the standards.
Politics aside, I think C#/NET is the first
interesting development platform from a company
that originated as a languages company (before
OS, apps, and games). COM was really horrible,
dubbed "C--" by my colleagues. C# fixes various
flaws in C, C++, and Java (mostly stealing from
Java). The main hesitation I have is that MS has
no serious plans to port it to non-MS platforms,
instead relying on flighty third parties. If I
was starting a new product, I would do I in C#/NET,
mainly from the power of the system.
I crossed paths with him several times in the
late 70s and 80s at Apple/mac users' groups.
Seemed to be a reasonable guy with a few
eccentricies.
Bill's net worth has fluctated between $28G and
$104G the past 12 months. He gave away $22G the
past two years, approximately a quarter of his net worth at the time.
Have you all given away 25%?
This is the most privatized genome sequenced to date. The company does not intend to submit
results to public databases as all previous
sequencings have done, include the human.
They will make small piece availabe to academic
investigators who request. However, it can be
had to knwo what you want.
Getting sufficent testing resources is the bottleneck in our company and paces our releases.
The upper management doesn't believe in hiring
lots of testers, and people don't like being
full-time testers for long.
Code redesign has to be aligned with testing resources.
Our company has a ratio of 1:4 testers:developers.
MicroSoft advises 1:1. However they have a
hundred as many customers as we do.
Might want to re-engineering your data abstractions (objects) and process flow.
In our yearly release cycles we try to get
in a months worth at the beginning of cycle.
Sometimes deceive the project manager and do
it under the guise of development.
A design cycle might be:
(1) Specification: one month
(2) Development: four months
(3) Testing & bug fixing: four months
(4) cleanup, shipping and vacations: one month
Sneak in refactoring between stages 1 & 2.
Called identical twins.
Maybe 50% of personality is genetic and other 50%
is life experiences. Identical twins will have
somewhat similar personalities from genetics and
being raised together.
CMOS camera chips are much cheaper to make than
the conventional charge couple time. Moderate
resolution ones can be manufactured for a couple
dollars. These are the chips you see in Barbie's
Camera, watch camera's, som computer cams etc.
You can put such cameras everywhere for minimal cost.
Stoll's book High Tech Heretic gives many of the argumetns against the overuse of computers.
The movie followed the book to closely: (1) too heavy on ideas, (2) too short on action, (3) way too many subplots (and duration). Many families with kids walked out early and I got a sore butt.
Speilberg won't make these mistakes.
The Windows Internet platform defaults to so many
aspects of microsoft.com- hotmail, passport, msn,
outlook- and is mostly disabled today. You'd
think that the company that wants to become the
NET computing platform would have better reliability
and defence against hacking.
The telegraph was the first lightspeed global
information media. Everything since has been
an elaboration. The culmination will be personal
interactive video everywhere with seamless communication
between humans and vast computer media databases.
This expected to be fully implemented about two
centuries after the telegraph.
C# is my favorite dialect of object-oriented C.
It fixes a few flaws in Java, while emulating
most of it.
The chief drawback is that MicroSoft is doing
almost nothing to promote it on non-MS platforms.
InterNet growth will continue until there is
interactive video of broadcat TV quality or better
everywhere- office, school, home, vehicle.
This is the natural human-communications-computer
interface. We still have a way to go to figure
out computer-video interfaces. Text interfaces
are a passing form, mainly for academic use.
The signal would be designed to technological
level of receiving race they desired.
Could be a relatively simple signal if they want
to reach a lot of races or very sophiscated if
they wanted a high tech level.
Humans would notice patterns in light signals
thousands of years ago; radio only 75 years ago;
and some known physics not yet.
Basically you are responsible for educating yourself.
However, there is so much out there, that someone
who shows the way and cuts through the trivia
is valuable.
Been studied for many years since the mid 90s
when the teraflop barrier was surpassed.
Moore's Law predicts a factor of a thousand more
or less in 15 years. The issues were whether
conventional hardware and software development
would make this next jump of a thousand,
on radical new inventions would be needed.
Currently it looks like the existing trend
should squeak by, but physics will impede the
next jump of a thousand to exaflops.
The US government generally is the only client
with the funds to push computings' edge, i.e.
that is systems over $20 million dollars.
That buys 10 terflops now and by 2010 a petaflop.
Now and then an industry will be doing good enough
to buy the large machines- drugs, oil, Hollywood,
but that is transient. The government has been
supporting advanced computing since computers
were invented around WWII, instutionalized in
DARPA and the National Labs.
The drug industry is the only private industry
segment that can afford $100 million computing
initiatives. Many of those fancy new drugs cost
hundreds of dollars per month per prescription.
They look sort of similar.
However, until recently the shuttle didn't have
anywhere to go, except in circles.
How do you know that the Times is not an adaptive
web site? Perhaps reporters get a performance
rating on whether the article is clicked,
and clicked through the last page.