Moore's Law (doubling 18 months; 10x five years) is a relentless exercise of technology. You need inventions like these to keep on track. Kind of like social security bankrupcy- electrolithography, copper interconnect, etc. keeps it going "for the next ten years" while pessimists think it will end at that time.
The Imax web sites lists 150 Imax works made since the 1970s and upcoming ones. (Eight per year in 1990s.) There are couple computer ones later this year tha sound quite interesting.
In some interview Roy Disney said they did some work on nearly a hundred selection, including some modern pop like Beatles songs. Some will show up in the next Fantasia sequel.
UNIX, a cousin of Linux has been running on mainframes and super computers since the mid-80s. In fact, a lot of the attraction of UNIX was that it was tuned for high-power I/O, and the feeble capabilities in MS operating systems.
We lack the originals of most historical documents, by the important ones have been preserved by constant copying. On 'Internet Time' a document may last for months and the speed of copyinging is seconds. This compares to centuries in historical time.
The Internet allows me to read more newspapers, approximately a dozen. Caveat: ofter the first two, content is rehashed from the same news services, however I go for local issues in places I lived and worked. Also, it is easier to selectively filter news via the net, so I read less of each paper.
Lots of energy schemes look promising in the early stages. Algae hydrogen is fundamentally a bio-solar collector. Whether is more efficient than solar collectors based on toxic chemicals like silicon wafers is a toss. Ultimately effiency is limited to the amount of sunlight.
The astronomers and satellite HAVE been saying this for years, if you've read the press carefully. It is more likely a solar storm will zap a power grid or communications satellite than Y2K computer errors cause a problem.
There are theories for much larger universes, including one called super-inflation, to reconcile certain kinks in the distribution of matter and energy. However, in a pragmatic sense, the knowable part of the universe is limited to lightsphere the age of universe.
Personals cars allowed the suburbs where everyone has their isolated mini-plantation. In lots of burbs people never walk and barely know their neighbors. Small towns and cities are better.
I thought LP is where the code is written in documentation order, together with ample documentation prose. A preprocessor formats the code as either a word processing document or as ordered code.
For example, the critical action routine might be explained first, then followed by the overall work flow, then followed by the supporting memory usage and function interfaces. This may be opposite to code order.
This way the documentation stays current with the code.
Sometimes you find holes in your coding when trying to explain it in prose.
Current practice is scattered comments throughout code; secondary word processing documents that go out of sync with the code.
I don't think very many commercial outfits practice LP.
These guys had great foresight in the 70s (and even earlier) and should be honored for it. But haven't done a whole lot since 1980 and are are being over-hyped.
The old fashion way through modest, steady savings and investing. No speculative trading, or significant stock options. The 50 hours a week I work now are because its fun. A million doesn't go as far as it used to. It should be quicker to do this in this economic climate.
Our SciVi group started using 640 x 480 24 bit monitors in 1980 at $30K. The resolution jumped to 1280 x 1024 by 1983 and essentially remains stuck there. The difference is the price has fallen to $500 and the application software has grown exponentially. (There have been a few specialty monitors at 1600 or 2048 if you add another zero to the price.) We were told for electron gun technology you just cant form clear pixels faster than about 5 nanoseconds, hence the limit on those types of monitors. Multi-gun, mult-monitor technology has been around- either kludgy or expensive. The IBM approach is looking at non-gun monitors where there is still growth possibility.
The UN Charter on Human Rights enumerates more rights than the US constitution and its admendments, but sadly is less followed by the UN itself. Specifically with regards to freedom of speech/press. Its authoritarian members don't understand you have to put up with bad speech to insure freedom of speech.
Pythagorous ran a Mystery school, i.e. a quasi-religion where you had to be initiated to learn most of the teachings. Not all that different from a proprietary corporation. He believed numbers could explain and control Nature and the supernatural. Greek philosophers freely "borrowed" each others ideas and salvaged some of Pythagorus's ideas, e.g. Euclid.
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Moore's Law (doubling 18 months; 10x five years)
is a relentless exercise of technology.
You need inventions like these to keep on track.
Kind of like social security bankrupcy-
electrolithography, copper interconnect, etc. keeps it going "for the next
ten years" while pessimists think it will end
at that time.
And consider terse equations in math and physics
with lots of meaning, e.g.
E = m c c,
-1 = exp (i pi),
Maxwell's equations.
These are just publicized because it Y2000,
but probably had same rate of failures in 1996
and will have in 2004.
The Imax web sites lists 150 Imax works made
since the 1970s and upcoming ones.
(Eight per year in 1990s.)
There are couple computer ones later this year tha
sound quite interesting.
In some interview Roy Disney said they did some
work on nearly a hundred selection, including
some modern pop like Beatles songs.
Some will show up in the next Fantasia sequel.
UNIX, a cousin of Linux has been running on mainframes and super computers since the mid-80s.
In fact, a lot of the attraction of UNIX was that
it was tuned for high-power I/O, and the feeble
capabilities in MS operating systems.
Enough said.
We lack the originals of most historical documents,
by the important ones have been preserved by
constant copying.
On 'Internet Time' a document may last for months
and the speed of copyinging is seconds.
This compares to centuries in historical time.
Many of the earlyist mission datasets from the 60s and 70s are unrecoverable due to media degradation and format incompatibility.
Not all news is equally important.
In fact much seems to be manufactured to grab
attention and to fill paper or air time.
The Internet allows me to read more newspapers,
approximately a dozen. Caveat: ofter the first
two, content is rehashed from the same news
services, however I go for local issues in places
I lived and worked. Also, it is easier to selectively filter news via the net, so I read less of each paper.
Lots of energy schemes look promising in the
early stages.
Algae hydrogen is fundamentally a bio-solar collector. Whether is more efficient than solar
collectors based on toxic chemicals like silicon
wafers is a toss. Ultimately effiency is limited
to the amount of sunlight.
Next you'll be proposing something ridiculous
like AOL buying a TV network such as WB or something!
The astronomers and satellite HAVE been saying
this for years, if you've read the press
carefully. It is more likely a solar storm
will zap a power grid or communications satellite
than Y2K computer errors cause a problem.
There are theories for much larger universes,
including one called super-inflation,
to reconcile certain kinks in the distribution
of matter and energy.
However, in a pragmatic sense, the knowable part
of the universe is limited to lightsphere the
age of universe.
Personals cars allowed the suburbs where everyone
has their isolated mini-plantation.
In lots of burbs people never walk and barely
know their neighbors. Small towns and cities
are better.
I thought LP is where the code is written in
documentation order, together with ample documentation prose.
A preprocessor formats the code as either a word processing document or as ordered code.
For example, the critical action routine might be explained first, then followed by the overall work flow, then followed by the supporting memory usage and function interfaces. This may be opposite to code order.
This way the documentation stays current with the code.
Sometimes you find holes in your coding when trying to explain it in prose.
Current practice is scattered comments throughout code; secondary word processing documents that go out of sync with the code.
I don't think very many commercial outfits practice LP.
These guys had great foresight in the 70s (and
even earlier) and should be honored for it.
But haven't done a whole lot since 1980
and are are being over-hyped.
The first OOP was Simula invented by Dahl and Nygaard in Norway in the 1960s.
The old fashion way through modest, steady savings
and investing. No speculative trading, or significant stock options. The 50 hours a week
I work now are because its fun. A million doesn't go
as far as it used to. It should be quicker to
do this in this economic climate.
Our SciVi group started using 640 x 480 24 bit
monitors in 1980 at $30K. The resolution jumped to
1280 x 1024 by 1983 and essentially remains stuck
there. The difference is the price has fallen
to $500 and the application software has grown
exponentially. (There have been a few specialty
monitors at 1600 or 2048 if you add another zero
to the price.) We were told for electron gun technology you just cant form clear pixels faster
than about 5 nanoseconds, hence the limit on those types of monitors. Multi-gun, mult-monitor
technology has been around- either kludgy or expensive. The IBM approach is looking at non-gun
monitors where there is still growth possibility.
NSA monitors all text communication already,
but doesn't censor.
The UN Charter on Human Rights enumerates more
rights than the US constitution and its admendments, but sadly is less followed by the UN
itself.
Specifically with regards to freedom of speech/press.
Its authoritarian members don't understand you have to put up with bad speech to insure freedom of speech.
Pythagorous ran a Mystery school, i.e. a quasi-religion where you had to be initiated to learn
most of the teachings. Not all that different from a proprietary corporation. He believed numbers
could explain and control Nature and the supernatural.
Greek philosophers freely "borrowed" each others
ideas and salvaged some of Pythagorus's ideas, e.g. Euclid.
The InterNet's arguably most widespread application
is likely to extend to robots too.