I thried both the Colorado and New York sites. Colorados let you "bypass" signing up to see the prices of the plans available. Required just age and zipcode. It worked fine during the first morning "sladhdotting" rush. The New York site (looking for a friend) made you create an account first with all sorts of personal information before you even see a list of plans. It was tedious and possible dangerous.
There was a period of time from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s when a special effects industry mastered a particular technique, you saw it in a whole slew of movies. 1998 was the 'Bug year". You saw Antz, Bugs Life, Starship Troopers and a ton of bug shorts at SIGGRAPH.
In recent years F/X have gotten so good that thye no longer dominate the movie plot, and its the story that counts now.
The movie obviously spoofed militaristic societies. I could not be sure if the book did this. (Heinlein wrote Stranger is Stange Land the same time which was 1900 degrees to the left of StarTroopers.)
It transmitted across the world at the speed of light, cutting days or weeks off pre-telegraph communications. Sundenny far off news was timely, instead of in the past.
The telegraphs main problem was its small bandwidth of 10 or so bits a second.
Seven Sisters mainframes were the go-go stocks of the 1960s. Then transistors, PCs, A.I. computing, pen-computing, dot-boom 1.0, etc.
Every speculator thinks they sell before the crash. And technology will rise again from the ashes.
After that Martin Gardener article in Scientific American, everyone coded up iterative fractals on their computers and consumed a large fraction of the worlds computing resources. About the same time period too.
I work for one. In the startup stage maybe 50% or more of the work is coding. But then you ad sales, managers, testers, corporate, documentation, yada, yada.
And he didnt even have access to an 8080 CPU while writing it. He wrote a 8080 simulator on a Harvard computer. Punched out on tape and sent Paul Allen to New Mexico to test it. This impressed me.
I've seen side-by-side comparisons at SONY stores. This applies to monitors 4 feet or larger.
4K is 2x in each direction and 4x overall.
There is not a lot of true 4K programming out there however. More movies are being filmed in 4K. No real plans to braodcast at the resolution in the US.
There are very few "perfect" energy sources in the world, and geothermal has its pecticular share of issues.
The brines associated with geothermal have all kinds of chemicals ike sulfates and metals. They need to be disposed of. This was the chief complaint in not allowing geothermal in Hawaii.
If you create your own fluid circulation system, i.e. inject water to heat up, then run a dynamo, then you risk induced-quakes. These have been associatred with numerous injection geothermal systems in California and Phillipines. And non-geothermal water disposed has cause quaks in several Colorado sites, Switerlandm, Oklahoma, near fracking areas, and so on.
He is trying to identify high IQ genes. They are in the processes of sequencing hundreds of geniuses.
I and others have doubts for a couple reasons:
- IQ inelligence may reside in hundreds of genes. May be very difficult to data-mine.
- The tendency for children of smart parents to veer back to average intelligence.
Beware of enhancing one aspect of the human condition and creating more problems. (A scifi plot all the way back to Frankenstein).
If nerds do have more autistic children, the following explainations have been offered:
- Some nerds already have a mild form of the condition and it expressed more their offspring.
- Austism has been linked to older fathers. And nerds may reproduce later in life.
"If it cant shoot down 100% of missles, then it is useless". So dont build it.
In real life, Isrealiis discovered that 90% effectiveness is a game-changer. There "Iron Dome" anti-missle defense is that accurate. People dont run to the bomb shelters every siren now. Nor do the enmenies attack that often, knowing most will be wasted. At some degree of accuracy people accept "good enough".
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Both did work wioth cellular autmata 50 years apart
It goes back to stealth technology in microwave region.
Varius articles have said snapchat image files may not be erased, but just hidden from the file system. (I have not verified this myself.)
For a while there they were talking about camels as a repository for MERS. I dont know the latest.
I thried both the Colorado and New York sites. Colorados let you "bypass" signing up to see the prices of the plans available. Required just age and zipcode. It worked fine during the first morning "sladhdotting" rush. The New York site (looking for a friend) made you create an account first with all sorts of personal information before you even see a list of plans. It was tedious and possible dangerous.
So that the search itself doesnt look like a SS search
There was a period of time from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s when a special effects industry mastered a particular technique, you saw it in a whole slew of movies. 1998 was the 'Bug year". You saw Antz, Bugs Life, Starship Troopers and a ton of bug shorts at SIGGRAPH.
In recent years F/X have gotten so good that thye no longer dominate the movie plot, and its the story that counts now.
The movie obviously spoofed militaristic societies. I could not be sure if the book did this. (Heinlein wrote Stranger is Stange Land the same time which was 1900 degrees to the left of StarTroopers.)
The Saffir scale tops out Level 5, > 157 mph. But each level increases about 20-25 mph. It is essentially a 500 mile wide tornado.
It transmitted across the world at the speed of light, cutting days or weeks off pre-telegraph communications. Sundenny far off news was timely, instead of in the past.
The telegraphs main problem was its small bandwidth of 10 or so bits a second.
Seven Sisters mainframes were the go-go stocks of the 1960s. Then transistors, PCs, A.I. computing, pen-computing, dot-boom 1.0, etc.
Every speculator thinks they sell before the crash. And technology will rise again from the ashes.
With half of that of interplanetary missions. Hopefully India and other countries will learn from all the mistakes and have success!
After that Martin Gardener article in Scientific American, everyone coded up iterative fractals on their computers and consumed a large fraction of the worlds computing resources. About the same time period too.
Lambasted by rightwing radio, evening news and comedians. Just a matter of time before self-proclaimed vigilantes act.
Might as well get all his thoughts published while he has a chance.
So wrapped up in your anger that you cant give credit where credit is due
I work for one. In the startup stage maybe 50% or more of the work is coding. But then you ad sales, managers, testers, corporate, documentation, yada, yada.
And he didnt even have access to an 8080 CPU while writing it. He wrote a 8080 simulator on a Harvard computer. Punched out on tape and sent Paul Allen to New Mexico to test it. This impressed me.
I've seen side-by-side comparisons at SONY stores. This applies to monitors 4 feet or larger. 4K is 2x in each direction and 4x overall. There is not a lot of true 4K programming out there however. More movies are being filmed in 4K. No real plans to braodcast at the resolution in the US.
Kutcher plays Jobs in a movie, then works for the renamed IBM PC company. IBM sold their PC division to Chinese Lenevo.
Once a thief, always a thief.
There are very few "perfect" energy sources in the world, and geothermal has its pecticular share of issues.
The brines associated with geothermal have all kinds of chemicals ike sulfates and metals. They need to be disposed of. This was the chief complaint in not allowing geothermal in Hawaii.
If you create your own fluid circulation system, i.e. inject water to heat up, then run a dynamo, then you risk induced-quakes. These have been associatred with numerous injection geothermal systems in California and Phillipines. And non-geothermal water disposed has cause quaks in several Colorado sites, Switerlandm, Oklahoma, near fracking areas, and so on.
He is trying to identify high IQ genes. They are in the processes of sequencing hundreds of geniuses.
I and others have doubts for a couple reasons:
- IQ inelligence may reside in hundreds of genes. May be very difficult to data-mine.
- The tendency for children of smart parents to veer back to average intelligence.
Beware of enhancing one aspect of the human condition and creating more problems. (A scifi plot all the way back to Frankenstein).
If nerds do have more autistic children, the following explainations have been offered:
- Some nerds already have a mild form of the condition and it expressed more their offspring.
- Austism has been linked to older fathers. And nerds may reproduce later in life.
"If it cant shoot down 100% of missles, then it is useless". So dont build it.
In real life, Isrealiis discovered that 90% effectiveness is a game-changer. There "Iron Dome" anti-missle defense is that accurate. People dont run to the bomb shelters every siren now. Nor do the enmenies attack that often, knowing most will be wasted. At some degree of accuracy people accept "good enough".