Isn't it obvious being in Seattle?
MicroSoft is now directly massaging our brains
with subliminal technology in monoliths with the
messages:
"Buy Windows 2K",
"Bill Gates is good",
"Anti-trust is bad",
etc.
Mission Impossible #1 used Netscape for most of the
computer screen shots.
You've Got Mail had the typist reading their mail
out loud to themselves.
Jurassic Park #1 used VR flythoughs on a Silicon
Graphics with Connection Machines in the background.
War Games had speaking computer terminals.
Original Star Trek has a feminine speaking computer. However, Spock always seems to be looking
into a oscilloscope hood for readouts.
2001: Space Oddessy was most prescient. They had
video monitor graphics before computer graphics images was invented. The best at the time was stoking lines on an oscilloscope display.
Another way to look at this are what is being
predicted about the future, in the media, at
world fairs and the such. Up to 1970 or so
people prediction mechanical wonders like new
vehicles, space travel, appliances, etc.
Then as new age technical pesstimism set in,
the view switched to touchy-feely stuff like
ecology, psychology, and biology. The Disney Epcot
dome ride epitimizes this view. Since the
personal computer in the 1980s the future now looks at networks, virtual environements,
supercomputing, etc.
Most of the important political and organizational
came into importance in the 19th century:
the nation-state based on linguistic groups,
democratic-republics,
socialism/communism,
the limited-liability stock-holder company.
The 20th century has been elaborations of these.
There have been several attempts to radically
rewrite UNIX internals, yet appear to be UNIX
on the outside. The most prominent I am aware
of is CMU-Mach which most prominent commercial
incarnation was NextOS and Mac-OS X (with one
of the original grad students now running Apple's
R&D). NT at one time claimed to want do this
via a VMS-like internals. (POSIX API emulation
was a government purchase requirement at one time.)
It is sequenced when the scientific papers are published.
The publication usually gives a summary of all the genes identified, with the details uploaded
to a NiH database.
For example, the thy cress (sp?) genome was published
a couple weeks ago, being the first higher plant
and largest so far.
In good times, you have the luxury of doing such.
In the bad times (been a while in tech) desire
sustains you.
Do what like to do, and try to become as best as
you can doing it.
after 5 years it doesn't matter
on
CS vs CIS
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· Score: 2
The actual major is important for the immediate next job.
After a few years it is mostly work experience and what you have learned since.
The earlier stuff will be out of date.
I noticed a change when the printers went from
200dpi to 300dpi, barely when they went to 600dpi.
I doubt if we can really see much more beyond 300dpi.
It was higher quality pre-1994 when the aol/webtv
masses leaped onto the net. That was before commercial
spamming too. When the net was mostly academic
the discussions were better.
The most constant time cycle in the universe would be a "Planck second". A quantum of Planck time is the combination of the three fundamental constants of the universe- Plancks quantum of action, the speed of light and the gravitational constant (hG/c^5)^1/2 = 0.54 x 10E-44 seconds.
(http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?eqplk t)
I'd decimalize this times 10E45 to define a "Planck second" as 0.54 standard seconds,
and astronomical day as 160,000 Planck seconds,
an astronomical years as 58438752 Plank seconds and so on.
Calendars are based on repeated cycles.
Some of the cycles come from astronomical events-
day, lunar month, and year. The second may have
been tuned to the heartbeat.
Weeks and hours are human contrivances.
See Boorstin's "The Discovers" for a good summary
of time systems.
The ASCI series are owned by the National Energy
Labs. The ASCI series are sub-commercial proof-of-concept computers. That is, the mainstream makers are always bragging they can configure a teraflop computer, but no customer can afford them. So Uncle Sam kicks in a few bucks to call them at their word. Everyone wins. The government gets something really fast. The computer companies get an R&D test at government expense. The second customer, a commercial site, gets a more affordable computer.
Any nerd can write a piece of an OS kernal,
even reverse engineer the UNIX OS. However
it takes a skilled organizer to herd hundreds
of nerds to write a great OS like Linux.
Not that many children have that skill.
One scientists "noise" is a another's signal.
Note they are using reflected GPS to measure ocean
heights. Normally multi-pathed GPS is considered
error noise. People have also used slight GPS
signal delays caused by ionospheric charge to
map the daily thickness and hieght of the ionosphere
in an economic manner. Normally this charge causes
GPS position in accuracies of a few meters.
They integrate thousands of measurements at time.
This way they observe slight non-earthquake movements
of mountains, volcanoes, water soaked land, ocean currents, etc.
For example, the north LA mountains continued to
move for months after the Northridge quake, this determined by GPS.
Pixar is taking a breather after several years of holiday hits. Disney got into the habit two animation releases a year with pixar the holiday one. So this year they substitute a second string one.
Its been fully sequenced for a decade, yet
people don't fully understand how it works.
Image understanding plants or animals with tens of thousands of genes.
Quantity is confusing in the genetic world.
Wheat has 16 billion base pairs or five times human.
Plant genes tend to duplicate alot according to the first plant genome.
With regards to animals, the fly genome has only 2/3rds the gene of the worm genome.
The low end of human of human estimates- 35,000
genes- is not much more than these plants or animals.
The current paradygm in genetics is that life is
the genetic code and essentially information.
And it is very complicated to unravel, using one
of the largest supercomputing configurations on
the planet.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't it obvious being in Seattle?
MicroSoft is now directly massaging our brains
with subliminal technology in monoliths with the
messages:
"Buy Windows 2K",
"Bill Gates is good",
"Anti-trust is bad",
etc.
Mission Impossible #1 used Netscape for most of the
computer screen shots.
You've Got Mail had the typist reading their mail
out loud to themselves.
Jurassic Park #1 used VR flythoughs on a Silicon
Graphics with Connection Machines in the background.
War Games had speaking computer terminals.
Original Star Trek has a feminine speaking computer. However, Spock always seems to be looking
into a oscilloscope hood for readouts.
2001: Space Oddessy was most prescient. They had
video monitor graphics before computer graphics images was invented. The best at the time was stoking lines on an oscilloscope display.
Another way to look at this are what is being
predicted about the future, in the media, at
world fairs and the such. Up to 1970 or so
people prediction mechanical wonders like new
vehicles, space travel, appliances, etc.
Then as new age technical pesstimism set in,
the view switched to touchy-feely stuff like
ecology, psychology, and biology. The Disney Epcot
dome ride epitimizes this view. Since the
personal computer in the 1980s the future now looks at networks, virtual environements,
supercomputing, etc.
The future is "more of the recent past".
Most of the important political and organizational
came into importance in the 19th century:
the nation-state based on linguistic groups,
democratic-republics,
socialism/communism,
the limited-liability stock-holder company.
The 20th century has been elaborations of these.
There have been several attempts to radically rewrite UNIX internals, yet appear to be UNIX on the outside. The most prominent I am aware of is CMU-Mach which most prominent commercial incarnation was NextOS and Mac-OS X (with one of the original grad students now running Apple's R&D). NT at one time claimed to want do this via a VMS-like internals. (POSIX API emulation was a government purchase requirement at one time.)
It is sequenced when the scientific papers are published.
The publication usually gives a summary of all the genes identified, with the details uploaded
to a NiH database.
For example, the thy cress (sp?) genome was published
a couple weeks ago, being the first higher plant
and largest so far.
In good times, you have the luxury of doing such.
In the bad times (been a while in tech) desire
sustains you.
Do what like to do, and try to become as best as
you can doing it.
The actual major is important for the immediate next job.
After a few years it is mostly work experience and what you have learned since.
The earlier stuff will be out of date.
I noticed a change when the printers went from
200dpi to 300dpi, barely when they went to 600dpi.
I doubt if we can really see much more beyond 300dpi.
It was higher quality pre-1994 when the aol/webtv
masses leaped onto the net. That was before commercial
spamming too. When the net was mostly academic
the discussions were better.
The most constant time cycle in the universe would be a "Planck second". A quantum of Planck time is the combination of the three fundamental constants of the universe- Plancks quantum of action, the speed of light and the gravitational constant (hG/c^5)^1/2 = 0.54 x 10E-44 seconds.k t)
(http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?eqpl
I'd decimalize this times 10E45 to define a "Planck second" as 0.54 standard seconds,
and astronomical day as 160,000 Planck seconds,
an astronomical years as 58438752 Plank seconds and so on.
Calendars are based on repeated cycles.
Some of the cycles come from astronomical events-
day, lunar month, and year. The second may have
been tuned to the heartbeat.
Weeks and hours are human contrivances.
See Boorstin's "The Discovers" for a good summary
of time systems.
They took their ideas from Bablylonian seven day week and lunar/solar calendar.
People didn't like it, so Napoleon ended it.
At least we ended up with decimal money,
and most countries with decimal measures.
The biggest signal in the vicinity of the head are from eye muscle movement. A quality EEG machine avoids these.
The ASCI series are owned by the National Energy
Labs. The ASCI series are sub-commercial proof-of-concept computers. That is, the mainstream makers are always bragging they can configure a teraflop computer, but no customer can afford them. So Uncle Sam kicks in a few bucks to call them at their word. Everyone wins. The government gets something really fast. The computer companies get an R&D test at government expense. The second customer, a commercial site, gets a more affordable computer.
Try reading the article.
Any nerd can write a piece of an OS kernal,
even reverse engineer the UNIX OS. However
it takes a skilled organizer to herd hundreds
of nerds to write a great OS like Linux.
Not that many children have that skill.
One scientists "noise" is a another's signal.
Note they are using reflected GPS to measure ocean
heights. Normally multi-pathed GPS is considered
error noise. People have also used slight GPS
signal delays caused by ionospheric charge to
map the daily thickness and hieght of the ionosphere
in an economic manner. Normally this charge causes
GPS position in accuracies of a few meters.
They integrate thousands of measurements at time.
This way they observe slight non-earthquake movements
of mountains, volcanoes, water soaked land, ocean currents, etc.
For example, the north LA mountains continued to
move for months after the Northridge quake, this determined by GPS.
You can only image to about half a wavelength.
SAR radar peaks at tens of centimeter wavelength.
Pixar is taking a breather after several years of holiday hits. Disney got into the habit two animation releases a year with pixar the holiday one. So this year they substitute a second string one.
Its been fully sequenced for a decade, yet
people don't fully understand how it works.
Image understanding plants or animals with tens of thousands of genes.
Quantity is confusing in the genetic world.
Wheat has 16 billion base pairs or five times human.
Plant genes tend to duplicate alot according to the first plant genome.
With regards to animals, the fly genome has only 2/3rds the gene of the worm genome.
The low end of human of human estimates- 35,000
genes- is not much more than these plants or animals.
The current paradygm in genetics is that life is
the genetic code and essentially information.
And it is very complicated to unravel, using one
of the largest supercomputing configurations on
the planet.