If we aren't so important, then how come just about every galaxy is rushing away from from ours? (with about three exceptions). We must have done something to make them flee:-)
Suburu is the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades. It looks like that six-star design you see on their cars. The constellation is prominant in the winter sky. It appears as a fuzzball to the right of Orions shoulder. When you look closely you see the six stars that appear like a little dipper, plus a bunch of faint ones surounding them. Alsmost every ancient culture has a story about the Suburu constellation. I don't know the Japanese story, but the Greek one is they are the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
I recall a geothermometer paper published earlier this year about some recent Canadian meteorite. The internal temperature stayed well below 100C (from the chemicals still existing).
I expect those $600 / sqft bungalows in Silicon Valley to have price crash some day with the demise of the tech IPO market. Their owners will be left with half million dollar inverse mortgages.
The move GATACCA (pun of DNA notation) had hand gizmos that could check genetic identity in seconds. Currently, a crime scene gene analysis looks at several dozen gene markers, takes a couple weeks and costs a thousand dollars. But will it be faster?
First, there are companies making nanotechnology highly parallel gene analyzers. They borrow chip circuit technology and put tens of thousands simple sequences on single device.
Second, is what to analyze for? Part II of the genome project is to look for the *differences* in coding between humans. That amount is estimated to be about 0.1% of the 3% non-junk genes, or one hundred thousand base pairs.
Given that Moore's Law seems to apply to all information technologies, I suspect both problems will make great progress in the next couple decades toward a GATTACA device.
I dis-recommend pure tech studies to acquaintances beacuse of the glut of cheap foreign labor. The nearly million here already occupy over a quarter of IT jobs and the amount will double in the next few years. Salaries are depressed and if you don't have an Indian sounding name, many companies won't even talk to you.
I do recomend science and technology degrees, but away from generic areas where competition will be fierce. I recommend some kind of science major with a computer minor.
I think this message has pretty much gotten out to American students because of declining degrees.
More preceisely "Half a manifesto" in Dec 2000 Wired. (Doesn't seem to be online, but slashdot discussed it some months ago.) Jaron has several arguments against "cybernetic totalism", that is the ascribing too much to technological culture. This applies to deifying technological culture too.
BASIC was the first language of MicroSoft and a
mainstay through Visual Basic & ActiveX- a
lifetime of almost 25 years. Its only recently
they will be making their C/C++/Java variant C#
the main language.
Yahoo better tread carefully. There are lots of portals with alternative revune models in the wings ready to fill in should Yahoo slip: The ISP portals like MSN or AOL, the contest ones like iWon, and so on.
Certainly this technique frees you from viewing
an image depicted on a flat window or screen. However a better form of 3D shows different views from different viewpoints, i.e. objects behind obscuring objects. Holograms and fresnel displays have this latter property.
Nothing precludes one of these screenless displays updated dynamically depending on the position of the viewer.
If some country or organization does something really stupid and causes revenues and valuations to fall tens to hundreds of billion dollars, then they'll know. They'll mostly be committing suicide.
There is probably a sizeable market of people who would pay $100,000 for a week in space (500,000 people x $100,000 = $50 billion). You probably need a space plane that can launch at $25-$50,000 per person to start with. Then a hab module attached to the Mir or Space Station Alpha.
They are still haggling and have a weak contract.
Russia increased its fee from $40 million to $100 million. The Survivor people thought they might meet the $40 million figure, but that wasn't firm. Even in dirt cheap Russian, space costs are probably higher than this.
Is the figure I heard for the Africa the past five millennia. Thats about four times non-computerized astronomical accuracy.
P.S. For plate tectonics on a sphere, every small movement can be represented a rotation about some pole. A nearly linear moveoment is a far away pole while a twist is a local pole.
The final machine Seymour Cray worked on before his passing in 1996 debuts at this conference. See the <A HREF="http://www.srccomp.com/"> SRC website </A> for a description of this machine and a biography of the late founder. The SRC-6 deviates from the Cray-1,2,3 & 4 philosophy of very high performance small number CPUs and uses commodity CPUs.
Supercomputing is the top 1-5% of performance and price at any given time. Right now that would be at least a 100 Gigaflops, being that there a handful of single-digit teraflop systems out there. And it is whatever you can buy for several million dollars, all the way out to the top end of a $100 million for an ASCI prototype. For a period of time supercomputing also meant compromised software- clunky compilers and limited operating systems, but greatly improved these days. Supercomputing hardware technology has been all over the map the past 30 years- from highly optimized single CPUS, to vector machines, and massively parallel machines. But the underlying criterion is performance.
Lots of great books are remade every 20 years or so when there are new societal insights, directors, actors and film technology. Consider Dracula, Cleopatra, Superman, Hamlet, etc.
Rather than badmouth Lynch, I look forward to the next film interpretation.
Actually I like Lynch a lot. Though it dropped many subplots, and was too dense for those who hadn't read the book, the movie possessed "film noir" or interesting intepretation of the Dune planets.
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If we aren't so important, then how come just about every galaxy is rushing away from from ours? (with about three exceptions). We must have done something to make them flee :-)
Suburu is the Japanese word for the constellation Pleiades. It looks like that six-star design you see on their cars. The constellation is prominant in the winter sky. It appears as a fuzzball to the right of Orions shoulder. When you look closely you see the six stars that appear like a little dipper, plus a bunch of faint ones surounding them. Alsmost every ancient culture has a story about the Suburu constellation. I don't know the Japanese story, but the Greek one is they are the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
If there are any problems assigning names.
Simple!
The new millennium starts in 36 days. "Fires in the heavens" and "skys turning brilliant colors" are a sign It is coming!
I recall a geothermometer paper published earlier this year about some recent Canadian meteorite. The internal temperature stayed well below 100C (from the chemicals still existing).
I expect those $600 / sqft bungalows in Silicon Valley to have price crash some day with the demise of the tech IPO market. Their owners will be left with half million dollar inverse mortgages.
The move GATACCA (pun of DNA notation) had hand gizmos that could check genetic identity in seconds. Currently, a crime scene gene analysis looks at several dozen gene markers, takes a couple weeks and costs a thousand dollars. But will it be faster?
First, there are companies making nanotechnology highly parallel gene analyzers. They borrow chip circuit technology and put tens of thousands simple sequences on single device.
Second, is what to analyze for? Part II of the genome project is to look for the *differences* in coding between humans. That amount is estimated to be about 0.1% of the 3% non-junk genes, or one hundred thousand base pairs.
Given that Moore's Law seems to apply to all information technologies, I suspect both problems will make great progress in the next couple decades toward a GATTACA device.
I dis-recommend pure tech studies to acquaintances beacuse of the glut of cheap foreign labor. The nearly million here already occupy over a quarter of IT jobs and the amount will double in the next few years. Salaries are depressed and if you don't have an Indian sounding name, many companies won't even talk to you.
I do recomend science and technology degrees, but away from generic areas where competition will be fierce. I recommend some kind of science major with a computer minor.
I think this message has pretty much gotten out to American students because of declining degrees.
More preceisely "Half a manifesto" in Dec 2000 Wired. (Doesn't seem to be online, but slashdot discussed it some months ago.) Jaron has several arguments against "cybernetic totalism", that is the ascribing too much to technological culture. This applies to deifying technological culture too.
BASIC was the first language of MicroSoft and a
mainstay through Visual Basic & ActiveX- a
lifetime of almost 25 years. Its only recently
they will be making their C/C++/Java variant C#
the main language.
Yahoo better tread carefully. There are lots of portals with alternative revune models in the wings ready to fill in should Yahoo slip: The ISP portals like MSN or AOL, the contest ones like iWon, and so on.
Certainly this technique frees you from viewing
an image depicted on a flat window or screen. However a better form of 3D shows different views from different viewpoints, i.e. objects behind obscuring objects. Holograms and fresnel displays have this latter property.
Nothing precludes one of these screenless displays updated dynamically depending on the position of the viewer.
If some country or organization does something really stupid and causes revenues and valuations to fall tens to hundreds of billion dollars, then they'll know. They'll mostly be committing suicide.
And I just found two identical snowflakes yesterday too!
When periodically buffed, on a sunny day they would look shiney diamonds.
If you are worried about the US market, there are
whole-world, and non-US index funds too.
You ain't seen nothing yet in regards to cheating!
There is probably a sizeable market of people who would pay $100,000 for a week in space (500,000 people x $100,000 = $50 billion). You probably need a space plane that can launch at $25-$50,000 per person to start with. Then a hab module attached to the Mir or Space Station Alpha.
They are still haggling and have a weak contract.
Russia increased its fee from $40 million to $100 million. The Survivor people thought they might meet the $40 million figure, but that wasn't firm. Even in dirt cheap Russian, space costs are probably higher than this.
Is the figure I heard for the Africa the past five millennia. Thats about four times non-computerized astronomical accuracy.
P.S. For plate tectonics on a sphere, every small movement can be represented a rotation about some pole. A nearly linear moveoment is a far away pole while a twist is a local pole.
Dont worry so much about the short term. The past decade has been great even is 1990, 1994 and 2000 were bad years.
Maybe they could combine the Mir and Iridium space projects somehow to save them. Both are on-again off-again to be crashed into the sea.
The final machine Seymour Cray worked on before his passing in 1996 debuts at this conference. See the <A HREF="http://www.srccomp.com/"> SRC website </A> for a description of this machine and a biography of the late founder. The SRC-6 deviates from the Cray-1,2,3 & 4 philosophy of very high performance small number CPUs and uses commodity CPUs.
Supercomputing is the top 1-5% of performance and price at any given time. Right now that would be at least a 100 Gigaflops, being that there a handful of single-digit teraflop systems out there. And it is whatever you can buy for several million dollars, all the way out to the top end of a $100 million for an ASCI prototype. For a period of time supercomputing also meant compromised software- clunky compilers and limited operating systems, but greatly improved these days. Supercomputing hardware technology has been all over the map the past 30 years- from highly optimized single CPUS, to vector machines, and massively parallel machines. But the underlying criterion is performance.
Lots of great books are remade every 20 years or so when there are new societal insights, directors, actors and film technology. Consider Dracula, Cleopatra, Superman, Hamlet, etc.
Rather than badmouth Lynch, I look forward to the next film interpretation.
Actually I like Lynch a lot. Though it dropped many subplots, and was too dense for those who hadn't read the book, the movie possessed "film noir" or interesting intepretation of the Dune planets.