I watched an interesting PBS special on the Amish a couple nights ago. It gave me good insight into their lifestyle choices.
During this show I thought about the "2012 problem". If any one would survive a shutdowns of electricity and electronics, these people will However, these people are pacifists an might not do well with armed bands that would arise in the apocalypse.
From a given job record. This kind of check up is easier to do than pre-social software days. Linked-in does carge a hefty fee to send messages to non-links.
Then I guess somemone could create a whole slew of fake co-workers and links to game this method.
It was rudimentary- just basic text and images. But it was free and hackable. Industrial strength server and browser versions appeared after that.
The free versions of software tend to win. ATT Unix was almost free in its early years compared to DEC and IBM. C== was free compared to ObjectiveC. XWindows was free. Linux was free. And so on.
I know the Russians were especially interested in this technique. The antibiotic era is not that old: there are still plenty of people now alive born before antibiotics were common. And there is some talk talk of reviving phage technology due to the declining effectiveness of antibiotics as bacteria evolve resistance.
to cut costs. And if you look like you belong- the right age and clothing for the meeting- they may ignore you. I've snuck in to hear single talks by a friend. I didnt want to pay a multi-hundred dollar fee for that priviledge. I do pay if attend more of a conference.
Anonymous is bunch of semi-naive kids battling police, governments, and drug-cartels (last year in Mexico). Some of these are "shoot first, take no prisoners". Hope they have the fortitude to take the consequences for their actions.
NG is more chemically reactive than CO2 and disappears from the atmosphere much faster. Half-live is a couple decades while CO2 may stay for centuries. Thats why its important to get a handle on CO2 quickly. Many natural chemical processes degrade methane such as UV and oxidation.
Its been a heavily used technology for several decades: 10s of thousands of wells. You'd think systematic environmental problems would have been documented by now.
Most of the problems are from accidents at the wellhead, not deep in the earth. Thats where procedures and regulations must be very strict.
You build 5 or 10 and the price goes down. Just wont be able to do the big sample-return missions which would cost 10x-20x as much. The mostly recent sample-return mission was actually a triple mission: a land-rover, a lander-with orbital rocket, an orbital retriever. Keeps Mars program alive for another couple decades.
Apple was breaking into an entirely new, hugely competitive industry. Huge downside if they failed. I think they overlooked 3rd party apps in the beginning. Remember how we all jailbreaking them the first six months just to expose the UNIX shell and SDK? Stopping thinking of phones as communicators and as mobile computers changed the game.
to fall for this. Just the manufacturers. Look at how much trouble Chinese consumers go to get a REAL Apple product amid all the knock-offs there. They pay about 100% tax or agents 2x - 3x price to obtain one.
I've read scifi stories of society not needing men. Women could clone and bear children themselves. With stem-cell eggs and potentially wombs in males, then the flip could be true.
Sort of like bitcoins. instead of serial numbers each note would contain a multi-hundred digit unique RSA code. The bill would be its physical token. US Treasury websites could validate the bill. The same site could invalidate a fake or copied certificate. Or privacy people could avoid validation at all.
Current $100 bill are not entirely private. Its trivial to read and record the current serial numbers. And some banks may be doing that for large bills to look for crime payouts.
Much of bitcoins problems, if you believe the Wired articles, are not due to the certificates, but the minter's disks being compromised and the coin info erased or stolen.
We of all generations are experiencing new technology together. Its kind of silly to say one generation is superior because it is fresh or another because it is experienced. We see this in the job marketplace where there is salary-experience compression: the capable new employee is paid about the same as the older guy.
On the other hand, outside of technology there may value to other aspects of business such ans management and social skills. Age-stratified companies like all boomers or all college kids may paint themselves into a corner lacking skills of one kind.
Sometimes we geezers like brag about the days "when I walked ten miles barefoot in the snow to use the school's teletype terminal". Computers still evolve so fast that is bored people to talk about platforms from five years ago (pre-smartphone) much less 30 or 40 years ago.
If your add genres like scifi, adventure, crime, etc. you'll run into various problems. One is the shear number of extra awards. Another is pigeon-holing: maybe a film crosses boundaries. We see this now with the special animation category. Should a great animation like Disney's Beauty and Beast be up for the general movie Oscar too?
I am referring to the Clockwork Orange movie where the "cure" to violence addiction had the side effect of turning off the pleasure music. will taming one part of the mind disable other parts in some subtle fashion. Maybe its not coincidence that many artists are bipolar: extreme creatively may be a mental outlier.
The US will be down to one active cyclotron-collider by the end of this year and not world class anymore. Some of the older accelerators have been recycled: Stanford Linear Accelerator where two of the quark mesons were discovered is now one of the worlds most powerful xray sources. This can see molecular size objects or time slices faster than a chemical reaction.
the US space program can no longer launch astronauts into orbit. Earliest will be next decade. Space probes have been cut to the two in development with nothing beyond that funded.
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I watched an interesting PBS special on the Amish a couple nights ago. It gave me good insight into their lifestyle choices.
During this show I thought about the "2012 problem". If any one would survive a shutdowns of electricity and electronics, these people will However, these people are pacifists an might not do well with armed bands that would arise in the apocalypse.
From a given job record. This kind of check up is easier to do than pre-social software days. Linked-in does carge a hefty fee to send messages to non-links.
Then I guess somemone could create a whole slew of fake co-workers and links to game this method.
I've been using the InterNet since 1974, the web since 1992.
It was rudimentary- just basic text and images. But it was free and hackable. Industrial strength server and browser versions appeared after that.
The free versions of software tend to win. ATT Unix was almost free in its early years compared to DEC and IBM. C== was free compared to ObjectiveC. XWindows was free. Linux was free. And so on.
Chose an aribitrary starting time, say the origin of this universe about 8 x 10^60 Plank units ago.
I know the Russians were especially interested in this technique. The antibiotic era is not that old: there are still plenty of people now alive born before antibiotics were common. And there is some talk talk of reviving phage technology due to the declining effectiveness of antibiotics as bacteria evolve resistance.
to cut costs. And if you look like you belong- the right age and clothing for the meeting- they may ignore you. I've snuck in to hear single talks by a friend. I didnt want to pay a multi-hundred dollar fee for that priviledge. I do pay if attend more of a conference.
Anonymous is bunch of semi-naive kids battling police, governments, and drug-cartels (last year in Mexico). Some of these are "shoot first, take no prisoners". Hope they have the fortitude to take the consequences for their actions.
Its corrupt in the USA, but not that corrupt.
NG is more chemically reactive than CO2 and disappears from the atmosphere much faster. Half-live is a couple decades while CO2 may stay for centuries. Thats why its important to get a handle on CO2 quickly. Many natural chemical processes degrade methane such as UV and oxidation.
Its been a heavily used technology for several decades: 10s of thousands of wells. You'd think systematic environmental problems would have been documented by now.
Most of the problems are from accidents at the wellhead, not deep in the earth. Thats where procedures and regulations must be very strict.
And no one really understands why most mammals sleep. You monkey around with such a core function and you may effects side-effects.
You build 5 or 10 and the price goes down. Just wont be able to do the big sample-return missions which would cost 10x-20x as much. The mostly recent sample-return mission was actually a triple mission: a land-rover, a lander-with orbital rocket, an orbital retriever. Keeps Mars program alive for another couple decades.
Apple was breaking into an entirely new, hugely competitive industry. Huge downside if they failed. I think they overlooked 3rd party apps in the beginning. Remember how we all jailbreaking them the first six months just to expose the UNIX shell and SDK? Stopping thinking of phones as communicators and as mobile computers changed the game.
More quality and lower prices for the rest of us.
to fall for this. Just the manufacturers. Look at how much trouble Chinese consumers go to get a REAL Apple product amid all the knock-offs there. They pay about 100% tax or agents 2x - 3x price to obtain one.
I've read scifi stories of society not needing men. Women could clone and bear children themselves. With stem-cell eggs and potentially wombs in males, then the flip could be true.
Sort of like bitcoins. instead of serial numbers each note would contain a multi-hundred digit unique RSA code. The bill would be its physical token. US Treasury websites could validate the bill. The same site could invalidate a fake or copied certificate. Or privacy people could avoid validation at all.
Current $100 bill are not entirely private. Its trivial to read and record the current serial numbers. And some banks may be doing that for large bills to look for crime payouts.
Much of bitcoins problems, if you believe the Wired articles, are not due to the certificates, but the minter's disks being compromised and the coin info erased or stolen.
We of all generations are experiencing new technology together. Its kind of silly to say one generation is superior because it is fresh or another because it is experienced. We see this in the job marketplace where there is salary-experience compression: the capable new employee is paid about the same as the older guy.
On the other hand, outside of technology there may value to other aspects of business such ans management and social skills. Age-stratified companies like all boomers or all college kids may paint themselves into a corner lacking skills of one kind.
Sometimes we geezers like brag about the days "when I walked ten miles barefoot in the snow to use the school's teletype terminal". Computers still evolve so fast that is bored people to talk about platforms from five years ago (pre-smartphone) much less 30 or 40 years ago.
The give awards for films, books, stories, etc. Maybe they should put one of this on TV as the Nth award show of the season.
If your add genres like scifi, adventure, crime, etc. you'll run into various problems. One is the shear number of extra awards. Another is pigeon-holing: maybe a film crosses boundaries. We see this now with the special animation category. Should a great animation like Disney's Beauty and Beast be up for the general movie Oscar too?
I am referring to the Clockwork Orange movie where the "cure" to violence addiction had the side effect of turning off the pleasure music. will taming one part of the mind disable other parts in some subtle fashion. Maybe its not coincidence that many artists are bipolar: extreme creatively may be a mental outlier.
I've heard of teens putting vodka in vaporizers for faster highs. Its rather corrosive to sinus tissues.
The US will be down to one active cyclotron-collider by the end of this year and not world class anymore. Some of the older accelerators have been recycled: Stanford Linear Accelerator where two of the quark mesons were discovered is now one of the worlds most powerful xray sources. This can see molecular size objects or time slices faster than a chemical reaction.
the US space program can no longer launch astronauts into orbit. Earliest will be next decade. Space probes have been cut to the two in development with nothing beyond that funded.