This means they are protected BEFORE there isa suspicion of a crime. But good luck protecting your privacy after. I presume this extends to other portals like Yahoo and Facebook.
Pretty much sums up what the word used to mean- a learning community; you learn as much as from each other as from the professor. Online degrees, whether you pay fortune line at Phoenix or almost free at Udacity lack that special sauce of collegium.
I used to attend the West Coast Computer Faire in the late 1970s. Skinny red-hair Gates was there hawking his BASIC and FORTRAN. There were not many apps for software developers at the that time so MicroSoft stood out even then.
In the beginning it sounded the "the Smalltalk for the rest of us", i.e. objective oriented programming for the UNIX/C crowd. But ObjectiveC was a proprietary language and did not catch with university types. Somewhat open C++ quickly eclipsed it. But the faithful at NeXT, then Apple held on. Now its considered on the most popular develop languages, mainly for iPhone apps.
James Watson was the 3rd human fully sequenced about 8 years ago. The Nature article tsaid hat he had 20 defects matching the then defect database (about 5000 entries), none which were expressed. It said he should have had retinitis pigmentosa, which he did have. Our knowledge of genetic density is still primitive. Definitely too shaky for insurance filtring.
It was last weekend. Alda's Flame presentation was one of 41 pieces. I saw four presentations, but not Alda's. The four were in the "Big ideas" track and panels on currently practicing researchers on a specific topic. And I learned more than I had expected. The were other tracks on the arts and for children. I'd recommend this conference to others, even if you work it into a NYC vacation which I did.
I'd feel good if they copied my town. In a few years, hordes of rich Chinese tourists may decide to visit the real thing.
private flights to space starting to come true?
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One of the more vivid images in ray's stories were the hordes of rockets fleeing Earth for new opportunities on Mars. I thought this was transposition of the settling of US West and displacement of Indians which would have still been in the living memory of Ray's grandparents when he was a child. The success of DragonX last week is private door opening into space after half century of government monopolies.
I saw play version of Fahrenheit 451 this year
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at the Denver Performing Arts Center. The plot elements have held up fairly well over the decades. It was written at the dawn of the television era when Bradbury witnessed TV taking over suburban lives. This fear has been re-echoed every generation since with PCs, the web, and mobile devices displacing family life and and books.
The "test" especially college entrance has become all important in Japan, China and Korea. The US school system has started down this slippery slope, especially since No Child Left Behind. Asian industries do not create as much intellectual capital as the US, even though they are good and producing goods.
In normal economic times this is a profit center for the US Treasury. Long term rates are historically 4%. Instead of the treasury paying $40 for a 10-year bond, it pays nothing for the equivalent currency as long its is never returned to the Reserve Bank for one reason or another. That is the advantage of being the world's most popular cash currency. Something like $700B fr the $1000B in cash never returns to US banks.
There is the mantra that education should be "local", but science knows no boundaries. I think this just a smokescreen for anti-environmentalism and anti-evolution.
Ironically our most Biblical president of recent times- GW Bush- did more to federalize elementary education with his national testing standards and funding thereof, than previous secular presidents. And Romney is proposing more federal tentacles into local education too.
This is pretty much the rule of thumb for the huge observatories going up in Chile and what Hubble actually cost. You got manage the data and pay for scientists. These telescopes may be cheaper than Hubble because there is no repair capability at the moment.
I talked to someone who saw the Dream Chaser space plane undergoing air tests north of Boulder. Its one of four private manned vehicles in first-round development funded by NASA. I hear its supposed to be drop-tested from SpaceShipTwo later this year.
Manymen in their 80s are starting to fell the debilitation of bone loss.
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Thats is why we seek out each other and other intelligences in the universe. Steven Pinker captured the gist in calling it The Language Instinct. Humans go more or less crazy in perpetual, involuntary solitude.
A computer intelligence is probably the best long term prospect for an interesting intelligence to communicate with. We've been trying for a long time to communication with animals, spiritual beings and aliens. But these have not really panned out. A "hard A.I." would be something interesting to talk to.
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This means they are protected BEFORE there isa suspicion of a crime. But good luck protecting your privacy after. I presume this extends to other portals like Yahoo and Facebook.
Pretty much sums up what the word used to mean- a learning community; you learn as much as from each other as from the professor. Online degrees, whether you pay fortune line at Phoenix or almost free at Udacity lack that special sauce of collegium.
I had several tens of thousands dollars saved by the time I finished.
I used to attend the West Coast Computer Faire in the late 1970s. Skinny red-hair Gates was there hawking his BASIC and FORTRAN. There were not many apps for software developers at the that time so MicroSoft stood out even then.
In the beginning it sounded the "the Smalltalk for the rest of us", i.e. objective oriented programming for the UNIX/C crowd. But ObjectiveC was a proprietary language and did not catch with university types. Somewhat open C++ quickly eclipsed it. But the faithful at NeXT, then Apple held on. Now its considered on the most popular develop languages, mainly for iPhone apps.
Thats about two years on average. And its in the purchase and maintenance contracts too.
James Watson was the 3rd human fully sequenced about 8 years ago. The Nature article tsaid hat he had 20 defects matching the then defect database (about 5000 entries), none which were expressed. It said he should have had retinitis pigmentosa, which he did have. Our knowledge of genetic density is still primitive. Definitely too shaky for insurance filtring.
It was last weekend. Alda's Flame presentation was one of 41 pieces. I saw four presentations, but not Alda's. The four were in the "Big ideas" track and panels on currently practicing researchers on a specific topic. And I learned more than I had expected. The were other tracks on the arts and for children. I'd recommend this conference to others, even if you work it into a NYC vacation which I did.
And its nice to have a few interested in communicating science, and spend years learning how to do it.
I thought they call it "beta", release it and let the users find the bugs.
I'd feel good if they copied my town. In a few years, hordes of rich Chinese tourists may decide to visit the real thing.
One of the more vivid images in ray's stories were the hordes of rockets fleeing Earth for new opportunities on Mars. I thought this was transposition of the settling of US West and displacement of Indians which would have still been in the living memory of Ray's grandparents when he was a child. The success of DragonX last week is private door opening into space after half century of government monopolies.
at the Denver Performing Arts Center. The plot elements have held up fairly well over the decades. It was written at the dawn of the television era when Bradbury witnessed TV taking over suburban lives. This fear has been re-echoed every generation since with PCs, the web, and mobile devices displacing family life and and books.
And "R is for Rocket" I read 40-some years ago. They were collections of Bradbury short stories.
The "test" especially college entrance has become all important in Japan, China and Korea. The US school system has started down this slippery slope, especially since No Child Left Behind. Asian industries do not create as much intellectual capital as the US, even though they are good and producing goods.
In normal economic times this is a profit center for the US Treasury. Long term rates are historically 4%. Instead of the treasury paying $40 for a 10-year bond, it pays nothing for the equivalent currency as long its is never returned to the Reserve Bank for one reason or another. That is the advantage of being the world's most popular cash currency. Something like $700B fr the $1000B in cash never returns to US banks.
These theory guys would be totally helpless in the real world.
There is the mantra that education should be "local", but science knows no boundaries. I think this just a smokescreen for anti-environmentalism and anti-evolution.
Ironically our most Biblical president of recent times- GW Bush- did more to federalize elementary education with his national testing standards and funding thereof, than previous secular presidents. And Romney is proposing more federal tentacles into local education too.
When you write software, write software. When you exercise, exercise, hopefully on a daily basis. Mixing the two will degrade each.
The result of all this complaining is convince legislatures to spend more money on education "to catch up". At least this true in good economic times.
This is pretty much the rule of thumb for the huge observatories going up in Chile and what Hubble actually cost. You got manage the data and pay for scientists. These telescopes may be cheaper than Hubble because there is no repair capability at the moment.
I talked to someone who saw the Dream Chaser space plane undergoing air tests north of Boulder. Its one of four private manned vehicles in first-round development funded by NASA. I hear its supposed to be drop-tested from SpaceShipTwo later this year.
Manymen in their 80s are starting to fell the debilitation of bone loss.
Thats is why we seek out each other and other intelligences in the universe. Steven Pinker captured the gist in calling it The Language Instinct. Humans go more or less crazy in perpetual, involuntary solitude.
A computer intelligence is probably the best long term prospect for an interesting intelligence to communicate with. We've been trying for a long time to communication with animals, spiritual beings and aliens. But these have not really panned out. A "hard A.I." would be something interesting to talk to.