We are very thankful for for their generous donation of a meeting room. Several MSFT employees attend the meetings, but dont often make presentations. The group mostly talks about Linux and Java topics.
In the lobby in front of the old supercomputer center. (The new supercomputers are up the road in Laramie where electricity is cheaper and the vice-residents home state at the time.)
Auto-stereo displays project four or more angle views through a prismatic screen lens. This is how the 3D novelty pictures work. On conventional TVs, the horizontal resolution is decreased from 1200 pixels to 400 this way, appear coarse. Super-resolution could be helpful then.
Most never really learn cursive writing because they dont write letters or school papers any more. And their printing looks like a six-year-old's scrawl all life long.
Even I find printing or mechanical typing more than a few sentences annoying because I cannot quickly revise my thoughts.
Really the CountryWide Loan worker who was angry during the collapse of that bank.
They just settled the class action lawsuit on this. I get free credit monitoring for years and years. No evidence any has been used yet.
If I know the first few letters of the word, the search engine will suggest accurate spellings as I type. If I really mangle the spelling, I type the whole thing in, then click search and hope google offers an alternative correct spelling.
Several high-power professor types go "off the grid" on a backcountry rafting rafting trip. Initially there was some anxiety about being incommunicato, but it fades quickly.
I notice the same. I think about work the first day of a backcountry trip or vacation. But then stop thinking about work by the second day.
In the movie the passengers said they were in hibernation for six years. So I assumed it was near light-speed travel. You accelerate at one gee for about half year, travel for five years, then decelerate.
The rumor is they found some rather complex systems with the Kepler space-probe and will announce that on Aug 26. That probe stares at the same 150K patch of stars for years at a time looking for star-dimming indicative of transisting planet. Other phenomena cause dimming, so they examine the light curve carefully and look for periodic orbital repeats to establish planets. There were several hundred dimmings observed the first few months of operation. Probably many times that by now. Some of this dimming data has been released to the public already. Some is reserved for astronomers to double-check with other instruments.
They've been microscopically digitized and zoomed to wall size without loss of resolution. In one photo they discovered a clock in a far-off building that gave the time of photograph.
If the day is lengthening on average.0017 seconds every century, that averages out to 46 nanos more every day. That is hidden under larger microsecond fluctuations caused by weather and earthquakes. Five nanos is 50 million more arithmetic operations on the fastest supercomputer - more than I'll do by hand my entire life.
"That all assumes the 'life is rare' dogma... Why would life be rare, rather than abundant of conditions are right?"
Five decades of laboratory experiments havent come close yet. Yet I believe they'll eventually succeed. Its just the minimal chemical complexity of life is still immensely complex. Nature may take a long time.
olsmeitser writes
"The evolution of life on earth is fairly well documented."
The origin of life is different from its subsequent evolution. Far less is known about it. Paleo-biochemists have focused on creating the fundamental six-chemical citric-cycle from raw chemicals and have lots of difficulties. Robert Hazen has wonder Teaching Course volume on the Origin of Life which spends a couple hours on this topic, which I strongly recommend listening to.
Craig Venter's synthetic biology experiments hint the minimal survivable life configuration is about 400 genes and 2000 chemicals. He has been systematic deleting genes and chemicals from the simplest known cells to see what the minimum must be before death.
Also writes: "unless the bacteria have evolved warp drive there really is no realistic way it could spread to other star systems"
Life has been found buried deep in the earth six miles down. It may not have had contact with general biosphere for tens of millions of years. This suggest that modestly sized rocks may behave as interplanetary "arks" even if they take millions of years to traverse solar systems.
I recall it boiled to down to significant "grey-area" books they were copyrightable (within the 120-year window) but no author or estate claimed the right anymore. Should Google be able to make money charging ads for page views of these books or should the publisher? The massive Google libraries digitization captured many of these grey-area books.
I suspect talking ebooks will take at least a decade to work out also.
That is life originated elsewhere in the universe and spread through it over the eons. To some scientists the machinery of life appears so complicated that it could rarely arise despite quadrillions of earth-like planets. Spreading between the stars after one likely instance would be more likely.
Limited panspermia states life arose once in the solar system and infected every other suitable place: Earth, Mars, Io, Titan, etc., through rare meteor collisions.
Most helium comes from natural gas deposits. In the richest deposits in the central US, it can actually comprise a couple percent of the natural gas.
There has been a huge increase (4x) in recoverable natural gas as a result of new drilling technology. Drilling can now traverse horizontally through layers, cracking the rock along the way. Old vertical drilling only sampled a small portion of a deposit. More natural gas = more helium.
Mars probably stablized geologically several hundred million years before earth and may have been the earliest source of life in the solar system. Then glancing meteorites infected the rest of the solar system with Martian life before it died out there.
I live in Colorado where there are SAR incidents all the time. Most of the SAR organizations oppose mandatory rescue charges, because people will call in too late then. They will more likely to be injured and rescuing may be more difficult and costly.
Generally the only time a victim may be charged if there is a criminal aspect to the incident. For example its a crime ot ski out out of bounds (and this is well signed). Some ski resort workers did so a couple of winters ago, caused an avalanche, the hid out in the backcountry for a couple days to evade authorities. In the meant SAR spent sigificant resources looking for victims witnesses thought they saw. The judge slapped full SAR costs on these people as a part of their fine.
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We are very thankful for for their generous donation of a meeting room. Several MSFT employees attend the meetings, but dont often make presentations. The group mostly talks about Linux and Java topics.
In the lobby in front of the old supercomputer center. (The new supercomputers are up the road in Laramie where electricity is cheaper and the vice-residents home state at the time.)
You have to connect to the network somehow.
Not the proper graphics metaphor. Plus its too convoluted to fit it on a page.
The one that intrigued me was Stanford's computer science professor Marc Levoy Camera 2.0 Project.
Its still fun after 40 years, speaking for myself. I have a PhD in a hard science, but mostly still write code, production level for sale.
The only difference is a weaker short-term memory. I used to be able to keep all my plans and bug-lists in my mind. Now I use a notebook.
Paul cant make any money off his old stock anymore
Auto-stereo displays project four or more angle views through a prismatic screen lens. This is how the 3D novelty pictures work. On conventional TVs, the horizontal resolution is decreased from 1200 pixels to 400 this way, appear coarse. Super-resolution could be helpful then.
Most never really learn cursive writing because they dont write letters or school papers any more. And their printing looks like a six-year-old's scrawl all life long.
Even I find printing or mechanical typing more than a few sentences annoying because I cannot quickly revise my thoughts.
Really the CountryWide Loan worker who was angry during the collapse of that bank. They just settled the class action lawsuit on this. I get free credit monitoring for years and years. No evidence any has been used yet.
If I know the first few letters of the word, the search engine will suggest accurate spellings as I type. If I really mangle the spelling, I type the whole thing in, then click search and hope google offers an alternative correct spelling.
Several high-power professor types go "off the grid" on a backcountry rafting rafting trip. Initially there was some anxiety about being incommunicato, but it fades quickly.
I notice the same. I think about work the first day of a backcountry trip or vacation. But then stop thinking about work by the second day.
In the movie the passengers said they were in hibernation for six years. So I assumed it was near light-speed travel. You accelerate at one gee for about half year, travel for five years, then decelerate.
In contrast Apple is secretive under they can ship product. Or the latest advance date before they file for a FCC license.
The rumor is they found some rather complex systems with the Kepler space-probe and will announce that on Aug 26. That probe stares at the same 150K patch of stars for years at a time looking for star-dimming indicative of transisting planet. Other phenomena cause dimming, so they examine the light curve carefully and look for periodic orbital repeats to establish planets. There were several hundred dimmings observed the first few months of operation. Probably many times that by now. Some of this dimming data has been released to the public already. Some is reserved for astronomers to double-check with other instruments.
They've been microscopically digitized and zoomed to wall size without loss of resolution. In one photo they discovered a clock in a far-off building that gave the time of photograph.
If the day is lengthening on average .0017 seconds every century, that averages out to 46 nanos more every day. That is hidden under larger microsecond fluctuations caused by weather and earthquakes. Five nanos is 50 million more arithmetic operations on the fastest supercomputer - more than I'll do by hand my entire life.
Some of the languages used in my college course at MIT. Only one is still used a bit today.
"That all assumes the 'life is rare' dogma... Why would life be rare, rather than abundant of conditions are right?"
Five decades of laboratory experiments havent come close yet. Yet I believe they'll eventually succeed. Its just the minimal chemical complexity of life is still immensely complex. Nature may take a long time.
olsmeitser writes
"The evolution of life on earth is fairly well documented."
The origin of life is different from its subsequent evolution. Far less is known about it. Paleo-biochemists have focused on creating the fundamental six-chemical citric-cycle from raw chemicals and have lots of difficulties. Robert Hazen has wonder Teaching Course volume on the Origin of Life which spends a couple hours on this topic, which I strongly recommend listening to.
Craig Venter's synthetic biology experiments hint the minimal survivable life configuration is about 400 genes and 2000 chemicals. He has been systematic deleting genes and chemicals from the simplest known cells to see what the minimum must be before death.
Also writes: "unless the bacteria have evolved warp drive there really is no realistic way it could spread to other star systems"
Life has been found buried deep in the earth six miles down. It may not have had contact with general biosphere for tens of millions of years. This suggest that modestly sized rocks may behave as interplanetary "arks" even if they take millions of years to traverse solar systems.
I recall it boiled to down to significant "grey-area" books they were copyrightable (within the 120-year window) but no author or estate claimed the right anymore. Should Google be able to make money charging ads for page views of these books or should the publisher? The massive Google libraries digitization captured many of these grey-area books.
I suspect talking ebooks will take at least a decade to work out also.
That is life originated elsewhere in the universe and spread through it over the eons. To some scientists the machinery of life appears so complicated that it could rarely arise despite quadrillions of earth-like planets. Spreading between the stars after one likely instance would be more likely.
Limited panspermia states life arose once in the solar system and infected every other suitable place: Earth, Mars, Io, Titan, etc., through rare meteor collisions.
Most helium comes from natural gas deposits. In the richest deposits in the central US, it can actually comprise a couple percent of the natural gas.
There has been a huge increase (4x) in recoverable natural gas as a result of new drilling technology. Drilling can now traverse horizontally through layers, cracking the rock along the way. Old vertical drilling only sampled a small portion of a deposit. More natural gas = more helium.
Mars probably stablized geologically several hundred million years before earth and may have been the earliest source of life in the solar system. Then glancing meteorites infected the rest of the solar system with Martian life before it died out there.
I live in Colorado where there are SAR incidents all the time. Most of the SAR organizations oppose mandatory rescue charges, because people will call in too late then. They will more likely to be injured and rescuing may be more difficult and costly.
Generally the only time a victim may be charged if there is a criminal aspect to the incident. For example its a crime ot ski out out of bounds (and this is well signed). Some ski resort workers did so a couple of winters ago, caused an avalanche, the hid out in the backcountry for a couple days to evade authorities. In the meant SAR spent sigificant resources looking for victims witnesses thought they saw. The judge slapped full SAR costs on these people as a part of their fine.