It wasnt too useful if there was not place to store the character patterns. Until the price of memory fell below ten cents a bit (!!) in the early 1970s it was just too expensive to store these bits in a personal user terminal or personal computer. It takes about 2000 bits to store the printing ASCII 5x7 raster array. I was present at the transition from teletype terminals to CRT terminals at this time and the introduction of personal computers.
I am glad to see someone else help pick up the long-term research slack.
NASA is on the top targets of the tea party mood under the misconception that is accounts for a large percentage of federal budget. Plus one president terminating the shuttle and the next president terminating its replacement.
One hypothesis for A.I. or Androis is they dont have to copy human physical brains exactly. I recall some aeronautical pioneers tried to imitate birds very closely.
The only reason it probably hasnt happened yet is their system is hacker-resistant being based on COBOL and 9-track tapes. IRS and SS both have legacy systems.
We have less travel to biz conferences in my company because we use the ever-improving tele-video services.
Likewise fewer customers visit physical stores and use the internet.
We currently in the "paradox stage" where building the infrastructure appears to be increasing resource use. But in the longer term this may reduce resource use. This is similar to the "productivity paradox" of the early 1980s and 1990s were desktop computer costs did not seem reduce the cost of doing business right away, but appeared to be increasing the cost.
By some estimates they using a couple percent of the national energy grid to drive hundreds of millions of server cores and disks. On the other hand, the computer data companies and chip companies are acutely aware of the expensive power they are consuming and trying to minimize it & costs. Google has the ironic position of being the largest consumer of data center electricity and at the same time the most efficient consumer of electricity per peta-op or peta-byte.
I heard the president of Stanford, a CPU designer entrepreneur, give a talk at the MIT 150th anniversary on the energy tradeoffs of various parallel computing designs - multi-threading, multi-core, and multi-CPU. Some results were not what you predicted. Good multi-threading is promising because its more computer done per exisitng gate count.
Even though the newest price has almost fallen to double digits. I'd be way too tempted to buy more books than I read and spend lots of money. Of course that is Amazon's goal.
The study correlates simpler phonetic structures with more isolated populations. However I wonder if languages begin as relatively phonetically simply and then become more phonetically complex as various linguistic populations mingle, like in south Africa? Or is the reverse, that in isolation they start shedding complexity, like in Polyneasia?
Please dont cite computer languages as an example, because everyone knows that answer:-)
This is far from the first time where better technology loses to "[almost]-free", "immediately-available" and "open-source". We have UNIX verses VMS, Linux versus everything else, C++ versus Ojective-C, just to name a few.
Now and then the other ways wins as with Adobe, Apple, etc.
MIT had symposium on its contributions to computing on MIT's 150th birthday (Sunday). It was fascinating to see some the Ancient Big Names in computing like Tim, or the inventor of Data Abstraction (Barbara) speak first hand. It was less satisfying to see MIT define its role in current computing. Industry skates circles around academic research now. But there is some attempt to provide a theory framework for the clever hacks industry develops. Computing was just a glimmer on the horizon at the MIT 100th birthday (and discussed there). People joked whether they'll be coming to the 200th. the ex-head of Xerox park joked he'd be uploaded in the Cloud by then.
Frankly Tim's speech was rambling, without slides, about the history of his idea and grand philosophic speculation of what the web could be. He followed Negroponte's very polished exposition on the history of the Media Lab and the One Laptop Project (yes, there a One Tablet in the the works).
Everything was filmed at the symposium. They should be on the web [mit.edu] in a few weeks.
Since I've done a small bit of science in my time, I can trust, up to a certain limit, the 99.99% of scientific knowledge acquired by other scientists. I dont think this is the same as faith because there is direct experience involved.
Some journals are experimenting with this. Normally an author gets limited feedback from pre-press talks at scientific conferences and three reviewers of the paper. (But these are expert feedback.)
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Fresh from US Defense Department contractor computers.
they can show there are some commonly accepted best practices
However the Stanford satellite supposedly is ten times more accurate
It wasnt too useful if there was not place to store the character patterns. Until the price of memory fell below ten cents a bit (!!) in the early 1970s it was just too expensive to store these bits in a personal user terminal or personal computer. It takes about 2000 bits to store the printing ASCII 5x7 raster array. I was present at the transition from teletype terminals to CRT terminals at this time and the introduction of personal computers.
I am glad to see someone else help pick up the long-term research slack.
NASA is on the top targets of the tea party mood under the misconception that is accounts for a large percentage of federal budget. Plus one president terminating the shuttle and the next president terminating its replacement.
I'd say he would be very good company then.
For a civil suit to generally proceed, they need show financial damages.
Everyone copied it illegally to save a buck.
The wiki page lists an eleven launch, partially completed program to a permanent station. Sounds a bit like Skylab or Mir.
One hypothesis for A.I. or Androis is they dont have to copy human physical brains exactly. I recall some aeronautical pioneers tried to imitate birds very closely.
The only reason it probably hasnt happened yet is their system is hacker-resistant being based on COBOL and 9-track tapes. IRS and SS both have legacy systems.
We have less travel to biz conferences in my company because we use the ever-improving tele-video services. Likewise fewer customers visit physical stores and use the internet.
We currently in the "paradox stage" where building the infrastructure appears to be increasing resource use. But in the longer term this may reduce resource use. This is similar to the "productivity paradox" of the early 1980s and 1990s were desktop computer costs did not seem reduce the cost of doing business right away, but appeared to be increasing the cost.
By some estimates they using a couple percent of the national energy grid to drive hundreds of millions of server cores and disks. On the other hand, the computer data companies and chip companies are acutely aware of the expensive power they are consuming and trying to minimize it & costs. Google has the ironic position of being the largest consumer of data center electricity and at the same time the most efficient consumer of electricity per peta-op or peta-byte.
I heard the president of Stanford, a CPU designer entrepreneur, give a talk at the MIT 150th anniversary on the energy tradeoffs of various parallel computing designs - multi-threading, multi-core, and multi-CPU. Some results were not what you predicted. Good multi-threading is promising because its more computer done per exisitng gate count.
I got a free 7 month subscription, courtesy of of a luxury car company. I just have to view and extra ad every time I log in.
1/28th of an ounce is about the minimum for a joint and costs $10 or less in Denver. Appeals to teenage budgets.
Larry is a great ideas man. But walking out of the stockholder meetings after three minutes was not very adult.
Many are quick to jump on to silly fads
Even though the newest price has almost fallen to double digits. I'd be way too tempted to buy more books than I read and spend lots of money. Of course that is Amazon's goal.
The study correlates simpler phonetic structures with more isolated populations. However I wonder if languages begin as relatively phonetically simply and then become more phonetically complex as various linguistic populations mingle, like in south Africa? Or is the reverse, that in isolation they start shedding complexity, like in Polyneasia?
:-)
Please dont cite computer languages as an example, because everyone knows that answer
This is far from the first time where better technology loses to "[almost]-free", "immediately-available" and "open-source". We have UNIX verses VMS, Linux versus everything else, C++ versus Ojective-C, just to name a few.
Now and then the other ways wins as with Adobe, Apple, etc.
I think I first saw on of these on Nova a few backs- MIT students using a weather balloon and smart phone.
MIT had symposium on its contributions to computing on MIT's 150th birthday (Sunday). It was fascinating to see some the Ancient Big Names in computing like Tim, or the inventor of Data Abstraction (Barbara) speak first hand. It was less satisfying to see MIT define its role in current computing. Industry skates circles around academic research now. But there is some attempt to provide a theory framework for the clever hacks industry develops. Computing was just a glimmer on the horizon at the MIT 100th birthday (and discussed there). People joked whether they'll be coming to the 200th. the ex-head of Xerox park joked he'd be uploaded in the Cloud by then.
Frankly Tim's speech was rambling, without slides, about the history of his idea and grand philosophic speculation of what the web could be. He followed Negroponte's very polished exposition on the history of the Media Lab and the One Laptop Project (yes, there a One Tablet in the the works).
Everything was filmed at the symposium. They should be on the web [mit.edu] in a few weeks.
Since I've done a small bit of science in my time, I can trust, up to a certain limit, the 99.99% of scientific knowledge acquired by other scientists. I dont think this is the same as faith because there is direct experience involved.
It is a superset of Linux 2.6. Its more open than most smartphone OSes, but not as open as Linux.
Some journals are experimenting with this. Normally an author gets limited feedback from pre-press talks at scientific conferences and three reviewers of the paper. (But these are expert feedback.)