I heard a PR talk of NASA-funded 100 Starship Project earlier this year. before I heard the talk I thought it might be a good idea to plan for the next century, but now I am not sure. It seemed very emphemeral. They commission annual conferences and give talks to school kids. The technologies seemed way too hypotheticlal.
I was amused when a medical school professor made a gushing presentation about MOOCs. Then a U of Phoenix professor from the audience, one of those for-profit school, said we've known about issues X,Y,Z for a LONG time. And this is how we solved them. You may have gripes about the business model of for-profit schools. But many of these MOOC startups. But they are arrogantly re-inventing the wheel.
The good news is however, when done correcting online/MOOCs can been useful.
Today they protesting the Colorado Theater Shooting anniversary memorial. They say the new gun laws take away theri rights. They say if every theater patron was armed, then that disaster would not occur.
They just held a constitutional convention split the state into two staes. The gun-sagfe rural counties would become a new state.
China has had five manned space mission now. Even though they are doing things the US & Russia did in the mid 1970s, the are making about four years of progress for every two years of work. Their next space station circa 2015 will be larger than the largest Mir, but still smaller than the ISS. China has the advantage of current technology, $money$, and learning from the past.
How many people watched their two week, three [wo]man space station mission lat month?
I probably use some software with Indian work done on it. But I dont recall anything originated and marketed in India. But I expect soemthing to come sometime.
OCR is used on every letter to decipher the address with high 90s% accuracy. Then often it is printed as a bar code on the envelope or magazine. So all they have to do is to reserve the analysis image and its decoding. Its becomes a storage and retreival issue then.
P.S. One of the vendors sells about the same technology for moving license plate reading.
Losses from early NASA days 40 years ago illustrate the problem.
One was to the decision to use Apollo-like (moonshot) rockets and capsules to replace the space shuttle. There were some blueprints and museum pieces and personal souveniers from that era, but not complete working models. And the original engineers were dying off fast. The did successfully revive a museum piece for study.
The other losses were computer tapes and films from the early space years. Many were misplaced. Or re-recorded because they were valuble. Or the manetic tapes are fragile and decayed. They are recommended recopy every decade or could lose them. Here is sage of the moon-landing video.
Most of the books from classical times were passed down by copying them periodically. Very few original texts from that era, save on stone. Generally educational classic or important religious works were worth copying.
Tint printed letters old plates (Holy Joseph Smith!) or some ceramic. This presumes the technology of hand lenses will be remembered or reinvented. I've seen a number of essays on this topic, especially since the invention of computers. this was commonly suggested. we've learned to decode the lost scripts of forgotten languages, e.g. Egyption, cuneifomr, assuming we have enough text.
HIV levels go to undetectable in many HIV-drug patients, then reappear once off the drugs even if they have taken them over a decade. It was postulated there was a mystery resevoir for the virus. And/or it integrated into the victims DNA.
I find his columns often incorrect. And he frequently takes a contrarian position to rile readers and get attention. I would NEVER follow any of his investment advice.
I assume he saved a fair amount from his hihg paying federal jobs. But he is still a young guy and probably doesnt have to much.
Any money he did not hide abroad has probably been locked down by US warrants. US harrassed Wiikileaks to almost extinction three years ago. They can probably gvie good advice on how to channel money now.
I fear when the world loses interest in him, he will run out of money and have to chose an unsatisfactory choice.
(1) Turned down good asylum candidates: Ecuador, Hong Kong, Russia.
(2) Didnt seem to know that most places dont even consider asylum until you are on their soil (including embassy).
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Start reminiscing about the days of punch cards and teletypes. Few peopel are interested in last years technology much less decades ago.
Silicon replaced GaAs in the 1970s even though it was slower, because it could manufactured smaller for a much lower cost.
Gynastistics/boarding on urban buildings went by other names in the past. In the 1980s we called it buildering.
But when I hear a man over 40 die suddenly its usually a heart attack, accident or suicide.
I heard a PR talk of NASA-funded 100 Starship Project earlier this year. before I heard the talk I thought it might be a good idea to plan for the next century, but now I am not sure. It seemed very emphemeral. They commission annual conferences and give talks to school kids. The technologies seemed way too hypotheticlal.
Nothing makes you run faster than fleeing.
I was amused when a medical school professor made a gushing presentation about MOOCs. Then a U of Phoenix professor from the audience, one of those for-profit school, said we've known about issues X,Y,Z for a LONG time. And this is how we solved them. You may have gripes about the business model of for-profit schools. But many of these MOOC startups. But they are arrogantly re-inventing the wheel.
The good news is however, when done correcting online/MOOCs can been useful.
Putting their health and maybe their lives on the line to make others in Japan safer.
Today they protesting the Colorado Theater Shooting anniversary memorial. They say the new gun laws take away theri rights. They say if every theater patron was armed, then that disaster would not occur.
They just held a constitutional convention split the state into two staes. The gun-sagfe rural counties would become a new state.
To raise money during the past two recessions. Just another item for advertisers to put into their megabases.
Too many custody battle child-nappings or teen runaways. When you get a rare stranger kidnapping, how would you know then?
That should fit a good billion spots
Not nice to fool around with spy agencies.
About one in a thousand males. Urban legend has it is much more common in prisoners.
After a lunar rover in the late 2010s.
China has had five manned space mission now. Even though they are doing things the US & Russia did in the mid 1970s, the are making about four years of progress for every two years of work. Their next space station circa 2015 will be larger than the largest Mir, but still smaller than the ISS. China has the advantage of current technology, $money$, and learning from the past.
How many people watched their two week, three [wo]man space station mission lat month?
I probably use some software with Indian work done on it. But I dont recall anything originated and marketed in India. But I expect soemthing to come sometime.
OCR is used on every letter to decipher the address with high 90s% accuracy. Then often it is printed as a bar code on the envelope or magazine. So all they have to do is to reserve the analysis image and its decoding. Its becomes a storage and retreival issue then.
P.S. One of the vendors sells about the same technology for moving license plate reading.
Losses from early NASA days 40 years ago illustrate the problem.
One was to the decision to use Apollo-like (moonshot) rockets and capsules to replace the space shuttle. There were some blueprints and museum pieces and personal souveniers from that era, but not complete working models. And the original engineers were dying off fast. The did successfully revive a museum piece for study.
The other losses were computer tapes and films from the early space years. Many were misplaced. Or re-recorded because they were valuble. Or the manetic tapes are fragile and decayed. They are recommended recopy every decade or could lose them. Here is sage of the moon-landing video.
Most of the books from classical times were passed down by copying them periodically. Very few original texts from that era, save on stone. Generally educational classic or important religious works were worth copying.
Tint printed letters old plates (Holy Joseph Smith!) or some ceramic. This presumes the technology of hand lenses will be remembered or reinvented. I've seen a number of essays on this topic, especially since the invention of computers. this was commonly suggested. we've learned to decode the lost scripts of forgotten languages, e.g. Egyption, cuneifomr, assuming we have enough text.
HIV levels go to undetectable in many HIV-drug patients, then reappear once off the drugs even if they have taken them over a decade. It was postulated there was a mystery resevoir for the virus. And/or it integrated into the victims DNA.
data about data is metadata
A computer file content is data.
A file to contain it is metadata.
A file system to organize files is a another level of metadata.
I find his columns often incorrect. And he frequently takes a contrarian position to rile readers and get attention. I would NEVER follow any of his investment advice.
I assume he saved a fair amount from his hihg paying federal jobs. But he is still a young guy and probably doesnt have to much.
Any money he did not hide abroad has probably been locked down by US warrants. US harrassed Wiikileaks to almost extinction three years ago. They can probably gvie good advice on how to channel money now.
I fear when the world loses interest in him, he will run out of money and have to chose an unsatisfactory choice.
(1) Turned down good asylum candidates: Ecuador, Hong Kong, Russia.
(2) Didnt seem to know that most places dont even consider asylum until you are on their soil (including embassy).