I saw the art movie The Centurian earlier this year. The plot was basically a hybrid of Gladiator and James Bond. The scenic vistas of horse and foot chases through the Scottish Highlands (Cairgorms NP) were breathtaking mountains and valleys. Reminded me a lot of the LOTR stuff.
The first study I read in Nature ten years ago placed it about 1-2% in European/North American Journals. A more recent study doubled that figure. Pilot tests in Asia find the number well into double digits.
No one has fully stated the cause for the increase. I am guessing its better software and nearly all papers are in electronic databases now. A more pessimistic explanation would be that as the "Internet Generation" enters the scientific workforce, their sloppy IP habits migrate into research papers.
The same recent Nature article recommended routine scans of submitted papers to reduce plagiarism retractions in the future. Retractions are always embarassing to editors.
Thats the main lesson I took away from one of the better movies I've seen about hacking: The Social Network (ignoring all the soap-opera filler). We hackers learn our craft and the respect from each other by writing something elegant. It doesnt have to be big and full of fancy features. And get it out there to the public as a website or App. Its does nothing sitting on your computer.
Start with something you know. Since you've been a student most of your life, maybe it could be some sort of educational software, perhaps a a clever way of illustrating something in mathematics.
And the orientation includes a full-ride simulation in a G-force machine so you know exactly what will happen. So you wont panic or get confused on the actual ride. And opt out if necessary. This course adds to the cost the ride. Some acquaintances have already taken this simulation training.
The nearly obsolete google usenet reader has the same flaw: any group can sign you up for it. Spammers and religious fanatics are abusing this feature.
They did not remove his original heart.
It has a rotary motor in so Dick no longer has a pulse.
I believe his device is rated 7-8 years.
Dick is probably too old and frail for a heart transplant.
The wiki reference mentions stars 12KM in diameter and "several hundred times a second". You mentioned almost 900 times a section. I'd consider one percent light speed to be highly relativistic. Some of these numbers are as much as ten percent.
A 10-km diameter neutron star rotating in a millisecond is moving 30,000 km per second at the surface. That is tenth light speed and relativistic effects must be considered. "Neutron star" is just a name. The actual composition may be a quark soup, i.e single mega-nucleus. The attractive strong-nuclear & gravitational forces versus the repulsive centripedal and electrostatic forces are near unimaginable.
When these data centers start showing up as measurable consumers of the national power grid and components of the GDP, you might consider them metamorphically as power-plants of the information industry.
In his book on the modern energy industry "The Bottomless Well", author Peter Huber places commodity computing near the top of his "energy pyramid". Peter's thesis is modern technology has transformed energy into ever more sophisticated and useful forms. He calls this "energy refining". At the base of his pyramid are relative raw energy like biomass and coal. The come electrivity, computing, optical, etc. I think its interesting to view computing a refined form of energy.
Its interesting how FB is open about their data server infrastructure while some places like Google and MicroSoft ware very secretive. It is competitive for Google to shave every tenth of second off of a search they can through clever software and hardware. They are an "on ramp" to the Information Super Highway, not a destination like FB.
And because Google is one of the largest data servers on the planet, even small efficiency increases translate in mega-million-dollar savings.
NASA is considered the number one example of unnecessary government spending in many conservative-libetarian polls. Misinformed voters think NASA consumes as much as a quarter of federal budget in some polls.
The author discussed his Android App at the August 2010 Denver Java Users Group Meeting. He sets it so that it issues "I'm busy driving" reply when he is driving at highway speeds. There are other modes too. There were some results comparing the various location methods in phones- cell-tower, gps, dead-reckoning. GPS has some issues to my surprise.
according to a National Highway Traffic Safety report released earlier this week. Ironically overall traffic fatalities are down 20% last decade due to more safety features and less driving during the recession.
Denver has this really persistent guy trying to increase UFO awareness in the area. He asks city council to create a program every year and is politely turned down. This year he managed to put it on the ballot. Denver has a relatively low threshhold for proposition petitions, something like 5000 signatures.
There were several articles about a secretive "mini-shuttle" being tested by the US military. Its supposed to be maneuverable in orbit, and perhaps landable.
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I saw the art movie The Centurian earlier this year. The plot was basically a hybrid of Gladiator and James Bond. The scenic vistas of horse and foot chases through the Scottish Highlands (Cairgorms NP) were breathtaking mountains and valleys. Reminded me a lot of the LOTR stuff.
The first study I read in Nature ten years ago placed it about 1-2% in European/North American Journals. A more recent study doubled that figure. Pilot tests in Asia find the number well into double digits.
No one has fully stated the cause for the increase. I am guessing its better software and nearly all papers are in electronic databases now. A more pessimistic explanation would be that as the "Internet Generation" enters the scientific workforce, their sloppy IP habits migrate into research papers.
The same recent Nature article recommended routine scans of submitted papers to reduce plagiarism retractions in the future. Retractions are always embarassing to editors.
Cause and effect here?
diesels, hybrids, continuous transmission, computer value injection, brake recovery, etc.
Pretty old-fashoned from pre-computer days. I pretty much can keep track of everything in my mental memory after a daily refresh.
All required data is supposed to be sent to the taxpayer in one month anyways.
Thats the main lesson I took away from one of the better movies I've seen about hacking: The Social Network (ignoring all the soap-opera filler). We hackers learn our craft and the respect from each other by writing something elegant. It doesnt have to be big and full of fancy features. And get it out there to the public as a website or App. Its does nothing sitting on your computer.
Start with something you know. Since you've been a student most of your life, maybe it could be some sort of educational software, perhaps a a clever way of illustrating something in mathematics.
And the orientation includes a full-ride simulation in a G-force machine so you know exactly what will happen. So you wont panic or get confused on the actual ride. And opt out if necessary. This course adds to the cost the ride. Some acquaintances have already taken this simulation training.
The nearly obsolete google usenet reader has the same flaw: any group can sign you up for it. Spammers and religious fanatics are abusing this feature.
They did not remove his original heart. It has a rotary motor in so Dick no longer has a pulse. I believe his device is rated 7-8 years. Dick is probably too old and frail for a heart transplant.
College students have been doing this scince the camera smart phones came out.
So they can make them 10,000 times larger now. Whats the point of this post?
The wiki reference mentions stars 12KM in diameter and "several hundred times a second". You mentioned almost 900 times a section. I'd consider one percent light speed to be highly relativistic. Some of these numbers are as much as ten percent.
UNIX and C were great in their days. But perhaps not in the meg-core era.
A 10-km diameter neutron star rotating in a millisecond is moving 30,000 km per second at the surface. That is tenth light speed and relativistic effects must be considered. "Neutron star" is just a name. The actual composition may be a quark soup, i.e single mega-nucleus. The attractive strong-nuclear & gravitational forces versus the repulsive centripedal and electrostatic forces are near unimaginable.
When these data centers start showing up as measurable consumers of the national power grid and components of the GDP, you might consider them metamorphically as power-plants of the information industry.
In his book on the modern energy industry "The Bottomless Well", author Peter Huber places commodity computing near the top of his "energy pyramid". Peter's thesis is modern technology has transformed energy into ever more sophisticated and useful forms. He calls this "energy refining". At the base of his pyramid are relative raw energy like biomass and coal. The come electrivity, computing, optical, etc. I think its interesting to view computing a refined form of energy.
Its interesting how FB is open about their data server infrastructure while some places like Google and MicroSoft ware very secretive. It is competitive for Google to shave every tenth of second off of a search they can through clever software and hardware. They are an "on ramp" to the Information Super Highway, not a destination like FB. And because Google is one of the largest data servers on the planet, even small efficiency increases translate in mega-million-dollar savings.
NASA is considered the number one example of unnecessary government spending in many conservative-libetarian polls. Misinformed voters think NASA consumes as much as a quarter of federal budget in some polls.
I get tired of arrogantly clever people inexperienced in the sorrows of life using sophistry to promote their vices. Distraction kills!
The author discussed his Android App at the August 2010 Denver Java Users Group Meeting. He sets it so that it issues "I'm busy driving" reply when he is driving at highway speeds. There are other modes too. There were some results comparing the various location methods in phones- cell-tower, gps, dead-reckoning. GPS has some issues to my surprise.
according to a National Highway Traffic Safety report released earlier this week. Ironically overall traffic fatalities are down 20% last decade due to more safety features and less driving during the recession.
Denver has this really persistent guy trying to increase UFO awareness in the area. He asks city council to create a program every year and is politely turned down. This year he managed to put it on the ballot. Denver has a relatively low threshhold for proposition petitions, something like 5000 signatures.
If the astronomers issue press releases like this every month, what happens when an asteroid really comes close?
There were several articles about a secretive "mini-shuttle" being tested by the US military. Its supposed to be maneuverable in orbit, and perhaps landable.
Both their personal use and client experiments. It lephs if they are hardened to 10Gs. 3G is normal maximum, but 10G transients occasionally.