Most of the towns around me have cut hours severely and even closed branches.
This is a cruel irony because many unemployed people have stopped paying for home internet in favor of public internet.
Many libraries are funded by property taxes, which havent gone up much lately.
Shuttles were rated for 100 flights over 25 years.
There was supposed a monthly launches (4 month turn-around).
But I recall the busiest year was five flights.
At the recent rate they could have made it to 2050.
We still use 70 year old B-52s for important military missions.
They've been refurbished multiple times.
He'll be remembered as the anti-Kennedy for shutting down the US manned space program. The shuttles were only 35% through their rated lifespan. Obama didnt help much by shutting down its successor.
A thousand years from now people will probably remember the brief flash-in-the-pan which was the Space Program, rather than any US president or middle-eastern war.
After getting burned by supposedly expired online chats in 1990s.
My electronic material periodically disappears in the vastness of the cloud. Then some improved data-mining system makes it retreivable again. This I lern for self-searching over the years.
Kepler proposed 1200 planet candidates from its first four months of data collection. Approximately 58 are in the habitable zone and 6 may be smaller than two Earth masses. 19 of the 1200 have been confirmed as planets. As the study progresses, they'll see longer-orbit candidates and more habitable zone possibilities. And more of the 1200 will be confirmed as planets.
Page advertisement in Nature, a leading science journal. The company was Axeq base in Korea. Here is the ad . The exome is the 2% of the genome that appears to code for proteins.
IBM was the big computer power at the time Blade-runner was filmed. But it was a faceless corporation then. In that era only large corporations could assemble resources to build and operate mainframe computers. The hit Apple-II had been out a few years. Apple's record setting IPO, the first of a long Silicon Valley trend, was just before B.R. filming. MicroSoft was still a compiler company and had just made the IBM-PC deal. Bill's rise to richest man int he world was still well off in the future.
The Kepler statistics so far have constrained a "minimal radius" of orbit. There is a big decline below that. I presume the planets are either eroded by the super-hot corona, or tidally broken in too close an orbit.
That is that many revolutions of the galaxy since condensation. So any parental object or cloud may be long lost. Maybe not: astronomers are a clever bunch.
We all know about "telepresence" where a remote robot arm or eyes start to feel like your own after long time use. This has been carried further by a prosthestics researcher with two good arms and connects 3rd to his torso for development. He said after some time it feels almost as real as his flesh arms.
I think could get used to more limbs or eyes or looking those those of another person.
Stanford teaches a course on camera enhancement software. Someday there may be high quality cameras with open Android platforms. People already offer clever apps for the more mediocre smart phone cameras.
We are not sure if the Solar System is typical or not. With 1200 planet candidates so far and a possibility of 10x more in the next few years, kepler should build a statistical database of what is typical and atypical. They systematically watching a fixed region of space of 155K stars for planetary transits. This region of he galaxy does have a bias toward our type of Suns. And the technique is biased toward large, fast, close-in planets.
MicroSoft generously supplies a meeting room. Some of their people attend, but dont give presentations. Job recruiters come too. There are 10x job openings per person looking.
Kepler has identified 1200 planet candidates in its first four months of data operations, 19 which had been confirmed as of last week. Graphing the planets by various attributes starts to give a respectable idea of size, year, star-type, density and perhaps other attributes in solar systems. Kepler could find ten times as many planets as these in its 3.5 year nominal, 10-year extended, mission.
Postponed 11 times, four months and 4 minutes. It was interesting to tour the NASA complex and see all the excited waiting watchers. For unclear reasons, last minute airfares werent available this week. I think it was due to people visiting Disney World during Presidents week and backlog from last weeks cancelations.
I have several during the during the for busy, critical times like awakening chores, getting out of the car at work, etc.
The problem is when something like phone call interrupts the routine. More than once I've forgotten to take lunch out of the refrigerator or close the garage door because of this.
These lists are best reviewed and revised just before sleeping or crawling out of bed.
It took them long enough. In pre-computer days each ofice would get batch(es) of 10K numbers to give out. The numbering of offices was not random but geographic.
It was predicted by computer modeling the core dynamo by a Harvard group in the 1990s. At that time is was the frontier of supercomputing because you had to make the model cells rather small to accurately coupled elastic-electrodynamic equations. Ad a seismology group at Columbia claimed it saw super-rotation in 30 years of seismic records. Velocity anomalies (anisotropy) in the earths core appeared to have moved during just a few decades. Both these studies suggested the Earth's core had an "extra day" about every millennium. This new study suggests a slower degree of super-rotation from another kind of seismic measurement- bumps on the surface of the earth's core.
I have no doubt the heavy tars will be the last to degrade and will sit around for years. But there have been widely varying assessments of the lingering damage. And the scientists themselves widely disagree as to the extent. This study is the largest assessed damaged and will have to be verified by others if really science and not politics. If there was lingering damage visible at the surface, I am sure the network news and CNN would be showing it endlessly. They have not.
Yahoo and MicroSoft are considered has beens. Another Slashdot thread today questions if Google is that category. I wonder would it would like to like t be entering engineering school 20 years in future and be called FORTRAN or AOL.
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Most of the towns around me have cut hours severely and even closed branches. This is a cruel irony because many unemployed people have stopped paying for home internet in favor of public internet. Many libraries are funded by property taxes, which havent gone up much lately.
Shuttles were rated for 100 flights over 25 years. There was supposed a monthly launches (4 month turn-around). But I recall the busiest year was five flights. At the recent rate they could have made it to 2050. We still use 70 year old B-52s for important military missions. They've been refurbished multiple times.
He'll be remembered as the anti-Kennedy for shutting down the US manned space program. The shuttles were only 35% through their rated lifespan. Obama didnt help much by shutting down its successor.
A thousand years from now people will probably remember the brief flash-in-the-pan which was the Space Program, rather than any US president or middle-eastern war.
After getting burned by supposedly expired online chats in 1990s.
My electronic material periodically disappears in the vastness of the cloud. Then some improved data-mining system makes it retreivable again. This I lern for self-searching over the years.
Some aspects are representative, some voting. People who say it is either of them are incorrect.
You make that the default to Reply-All.
he hasnt done much interesting and creative since daparting MSFT. Makes a noisy splash with all his companies.
They'll keep a few print books in the back as museum specimens.
Kepler proposed 1200 planet candidates from its first four months of data collection. Approximately 58 are in the habitable zone and 6 may be smaller than two Earth masses. 19 of the 1200 have been confirmed as planets. As the study progresses, they'll see longer-orbit candidates and more habitable zone possibilities. And more of the 1200 will be confirmed as planets.
Page advertisement in Nature, a leading science journal. The company was Axeq base in Korea. Here is the ad . The exome is the 2% of the genome that appears to code for proteins.
IBM was the big computer power at the time Blade-runner was filmed. But it was a faceless corporation then. In that era only large corporations could assemble resources to build and operate mainframe computers. The hit Apple-II had been out a few years. Apple's record setting IPO, the first of a long Silicon Valley trend, was just before B.R. filming. MicroSoft was still a compiler company and had just made the IBM-PC deal. Bill's rise to richest man int he world was still well off in the future.
The Kepler statistics so far have constrained a "minimal radius" of orbit. There is a big decline below that. I presume the planets are either eroded by the super-hot corona, or tidally broken in too close an orbit.
That is that many revolutions of the galaxy since condensation. So any parental object or cloud may be long lost. Maybe not: astronomers are a clever bunch.
We all know about "telepresence" where a remote robot arm or eyes start to feel like your own after long time use. This has been carried further by a prosthestics researcher with two good arms and connects 3rd to his torso for development. He said after some time it feels almost as real as his flesh arms.
I think could get used to more limbs or eyes or looking those those of another person.
Stanford teaches a course on camera enhancement software. Someday there may be high quality cameras with open Android platforms. People already offer clever apps for the more mediocre smart phone cameras.
We are not sure if the Solar System is typical or not. With 1200 planet candidates so far and a possibility of 10x more in the next few years, kepler should build a statistical database of what is typical and atypical. They systematically watching a fixed region of space of 155K stars for planetary transits. This region of he galaxy does have a bias toward our type of Suns. And the technique is biased toward large, fast, close-in planets.
MicroSoft generously supplies a meeting room. Some of their people attend, but dont give presentations. Job recruiters come too. There are 10x job openings per person looking.
Kepler has identified 1200 planet candidates in its first four months of data operations, 19 which had been confirmed as of last week. Graphing the planets by various attributes starts to give a respectable idea of size, year, star-type, density and perhaps other attributes in solar systems. Kepler could find ten times as many planets as these in its 3.5 year nominal, 10-year extended, mission.
Postponed 11 times, four months and 4 minutes. It was interesting to tour the NASA complex and see all the excited waiting watchers. For unclear reasons, last minute airfares werent available this week. I think it was due to people visiting Disney World during Presidents week and backlog from last weeks cancelations.
They've doing this in japan and Mexico for years. Their quakes tend to happen offshore with a couple minutes warning before the more energetic phases.
I have several during the during the for busy, critical times like awakening chores, getting out of the car at work, etc. The problem is when something like phone call interrupts the routine. More than once I've forgotten to take lunch out of the refrigerator or close the garage door because of this. These lists are best reviewed and revised just before sleeping or crawling out of bed.
It took them long enough. In pre-computer days each ofice would get batch(es) of 10K numbers to give out. The numbering of offices was not random but geographic.
It was predicted by computer modeling the core dynamo by a Harvard group in the 1990s. At that time is was the frontier of supercomputing because you had to make the model cells rather small to accurately coupled elastic-electrodynamic equations. Ad a seismology group at Columbia claimed it saw super-rotation in 30 years of seismic records. Velocity anomalies (anisotropy) in the earths core appeared to have moved during just a few decades. Both these studies suggested the Earth's core had an "extra day" about every millennium. This new study suggests a slower degree of super-rotation from another kind of seismic measurement- bumps on the surface of the earth's core.
I have no doubt the heavy tars will be the last to degrade and will sit around for years. But there have been widely varying assessments of the lingering damage. And the scientists themselves widely disagree as to the extent. This study is the largest assessed damaged and will have to be verified by others if really science and not politics. If there was lingering damage visible at the surface, I am sure the network news and CNN would be showing it endlessly. They have not.
Yahoo and MicroSoft are considered has beens. Another Slashdot thread today questions if Google is that category. I wonder would it would like to like t be entering engineering school 20 years in future and be called FORTRAN or AOL.