In the beginning I thought it was ironic. But its very generous of them to provide a free meeting room to our open-source computer study group. And MSFT people attend, but dont speak often.
I had seen them in movies, but thought they might have been special effects.
But I saw one master perform live earlier this year. He was able to flicker through 30 some masks, changing them as fast as he could flash his hand. It looks like magic. The performers work this into some historical dance and song.
They started as a gadget company - lab devices. They got into printers. then computers. Then software services after buying DEC and EDS. I presume they were emulating IBM which moved mostly our of hardware into integrated services.
I recall people started companies to track and administer tax collection by zip code as early the mid 1990s. Its not rocket-science, just good database keeping. This would be trivial for one of the largest cloud computer companies in the world like Amazon.
I consider most of my relatives and acquaintances "smart", that is got good grades in school and scores on tests. But these people mostly passively absorbed what the educational system gave them. The really smart people take the initiative to educate themselves, going beyond what the standard system offers. I place myself in that category along with one my nephews. Thats probably why I got into MIT.
Then the question is how do you make the riches possible environment for these people? The internet helps a lot, providing lots of resources. I grew up pre-internet and had to do with reading most of the local public library. The other opportunity would be a research university where you are surrounded by other curious, smart people.
If your post deviates slightly from Slashdot's standard of "political correctness" you get modded into obscurity. I refrain from making opinion posts and keep to factual information for this reason.
Slashdot political correctness has a flavor of libertarianism and slightly liberal. And in general computer hackers can do no wrong.
In the 1990s it seemed that extremely precise measurements of the gravitation force was failing Newton's r-squared law over relatively short distances (meters). This is fore gravimeters near the earth surface than can measure gravity force changes to better than a part in a billion. The experimental error faded as the modeling took more and more factors into account.
Tesla coil process and maybe sonoluminensence method produce measurable neutrons hinting at cold fusion. But they require an input energy at least thousand over whatever is created. The Pons battery method doesnt reproduceably generate neutrons, so few people believe that one.
Weather studies have shown that above 80% false positives (i.e. 4 out 5 dont occur), almost everyone ignores warnings.
These scientist would need to track electron levels for a large number of recent quakes to see if this is the case.
I thought the writers were giving you some really snappy lines. In fact I thought it was kind of an unbalanced show: you were getting the best dialog and other characters were somewhat weak.
Drop the frills like GPS and camera. Maybe not enough horsepower for gaming and video. How much of a market will there be for a half-price device?
Its like giving away the razor to sell the blades. Both Apple and Amazon make about 30% on content. They expect to double their return within years with content sales.
A civic body implement public safety constraints, barriers or distance to allow patients to enter an abortion clinic or church funeral. But they cant be as severe to drown out the protest completely. Its a fine line. The Supreme Court overturned the lawsuit judgment against Reverend Phelpd who protested military funerals, even though all nine were personally disqusted with the guy.
A "friends" network like Facebook benefits from being the largest. It is still a player. Ditto Linkedi-n in the business realm.
Groupon is an easily copied and implemented concept. Being first or largest doesnt help a whole lot. My local newspaper does a groupon-type promotion daily.
Edison initially promoted his phonograph as an "education revolution" according Randall Stross's recent biography. In fact, every major new media- movies, film, television, computers, internet- has had the same promotion. In practice, they become absorbed into the educator's toolkit to a greater or lesser degree.
The phonograph was invented to accelerate the proto-internet, called the telegraph. A telegram would be pre-recorded on a phonograph, then played through precious telegraph lines at high speed to a recorder on the other end. Then it would be decoded off-line.
The killer-app of the phonograph turned out to be musical entertainment. Edison resisted this initially as trite.
M.I.T. had two 150th birthday conferences on A.I. this year. This would give some ideas on the state of the art and the players. Its not a systematic, pedagogical presentation.
If the measured distances is 20 meters too short, this would explain the error.
I agree they should be able to measure the distance to 30 centimeters by high resolution GPS. But I suspect distance is the source of the error.
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In the beginning I thought it was ironic. But its very generous of them to provide a free meeting room to our open-source computer study group. And MSFT people attend, but dont speak often.
I had seen them in movies, but thought they might have been special effects. But I saw one master perform live earlier this year. He was able to flicker through 30 some masks, changing them as fast as he could flash his hand. It looks like magic. The performers work this into some historical dance and song.
Maybe people could make a ritual of this, getting their faces digitized every five years. Could be interesting for posterity.
There was an early Mission Impossible movie where they pull off face mask after face mask. I wonder if they were real masks or special effects.
In spirit of UNIX and C.
They started as a gadget company - lab devices. They got into printers. then computers. Then software services after buying DEC and EDS. I presume they were emulating IBM which moved mostly our of hardware into integrated services.
I recall people started companies to track and administer tax collection by zip code as early the mid 1990s. Its not rocket-science, just good database keeping. This would be trivial for one of the largest cloud computer companies in the world like Amazon.
I consider most of my relatives and acquaintances "smart", that is got good grades in school and scores on tests. But these people mostly passively absorbed what the educational system gave them. The really smart people take the initiative to educate themselves, going beyond what the standard system offers. I place myself in that category along with one my nephews. Thats probably why I got into MIT.
Then the question is how do you make the riches possible environment for these people? The internet helps a lot, providing lots of resources. I grew up pre-internet and had to do with reading most of the local public library. The other opportunity would be a research university where you are surrounded by other curious, smart people.
Other bboards allow this. Sometimes I notice spelling or factual errors too late.
If your post deviates slightly from Slashdot's standard of "political correctness" you get modded into obscurity. I refrain from making opinion posts and keep to factual information for this reason.
Slashdot political correctness has a flavor of libertarianism and slightly liberal. And in general computer hackers can do no wrong.
In the 1990s it seemed that extremely precise measurements of the gravitation force was failing Newton's r-squared law over relatively short distances (meters). This is fore gravimeters near the earth surface than can measure gravity force changes to better than a part in a billion. The experimental error faded as the modeling took more and more factors into account.
Tesla coil process and maybe sonoluminensence method produce measurable neutrons hinting at cold fusion. But they require an input energy at least thousand over whatever is created. The Pons battery method doesnt reproduceably generate neutrons, so few people believe that one.
You'd think you'd see more evidence of mystery items like UFOs, ghosts and Yetis. Phones have been a real boon for photographing tornados and crimes.
The $2K car wa not too reliable.
Weather studies have shown that above 80% false positives (i.e. 4 out 5 dont occur), almost everyone ignores warnings. These scientist would need to track electron levels for a large number of recent quakes to see if this is the case.
Not very much for low-paid grad student R&D labor. But it cost less than nothing.
I thought the writers were giving you some really snappy lines. In fact I thought it was kind of an unbalanced show: you were getting the best dialog and other characters were somewhat weak.
Drop the frills like GPS and camera. Maybe not enough horsepower for gaming and video. How much of a market will there be for a half-price device?
Its like giving away the razor to sell the blades. Both Apple and Amazon make about 30% on content. They expect to double their return within years with content sales.
A civic body implement public safety constraints, barriers or distance to allow patients to enter an abortion clinic or church funeral. But they cant be as severe to drown out the protest completely. Its a fine line. The Supreme Court overturned the lawsuit judgment against Reverend Phelpd who protested military funerals, even though all nine were personally disqusted with the guy.
A "friends" network like Facebook benefits from being the largest. It is still a player. Ditto Linkedi-n in the business realm.
Groupon is an easily copied and implemented concept. Being first or largest doesnt help a whole lot. My local newspaper does a groupon-type promotion daily.
By Paul Asente of Adobe. MIT decided to use it as its GUI platform and productionized it.
Kids trying to get media attention, but not able to. Thats the worst thing you can do is not give them attention.
Edison initially promoted his phonograph as an "education revolution" according Randall Stross's recent biography. In fact, every major new media- movies, film, television, computers, internet- has had the same promotion. In practice, they become absorbed into the educator's toolkit to a greater or lesser degree.
The phonograph was invented to accelerate the proto-internet, called the telegraph. A telegram would be pre-recorded on a phonograph, then played through precious telegraph lines at high speed to a recorder on the other end. Then it would be decoded off-line.
The killer-app of the phonograph turned out to be musical entertainment. Edison resisted this initially as trite.
M.I.T. had two 150th birthday conferences on A.I. this year. This would give some ideas on the state of the art and the players. Its not a systematic, pedagogical presentation.
If the measured distances is 20 meters too short, this would explain the error. I agree they should be able to measure the distance to 30 centimeters by high resolution GPS. But I suspect distance is the source of the error.