The first modern probe, pathfinder was a cute little thing that mostly just took pictures.
Then came the robo-geologists Spirt and Opportunity about the size of golf carts.
Now its Curiosity the size of an SUV. It need retro rockets to land instead of airbags. And has more reliable nuclear power instead of solar.
This was in the pre-web days when small town libraries werent very good and you had to leave to have access to books and clever people. The books are now on the web, but the people-part is still important. The job part is secondary; I could always get one of those if I did the education part right.
There was trend in the 90s to bring business consultants to non-profit organization to make them operate more responsibility like businesses. The tell-tale sign was if the organization spouted a "mission statement', a signature of Kinsey methodology. Even sub-units like a professors lab was supposed to operate like a mini-business.
As with any trend, there may have been excesses. But the incorporating some business discipline may have been good.
It was all the features Apple had to add to make the iPhone usable that made their tablet work. These include (1) touch screen & guesture GUI (2) a small screen GUI without the clutter of desktop windows (3) wireless connectivity (4) single-click installation of music, later expanded into Apps. The MS tablets lackrd all these. They were essentually shrunken desktop computers. The Apple iPad is an enlarged smart phone with some phone things taken out. Bill and SteveB dont get it.
The iPhone/iPod/iPad disables many useful features of the underlying UNIX OS like true multi-tasking and hierarchial file systems. Each new version of iOS exposes more of these, but its not enough.
You kind of say that's nice, and never really see it used anywhere again.
I liked the haptic camera: it pushes some rods into you palm depending on the camera illumination. I've heard of developing this for blind people. But its easy to sense these patterns after just a few seconds.
Else it isnt the scientific method. It could be taken to the bring of certainty, but there is always that tiny possibility it could be wrong.
Just the other week there was a paper postulating gravity as an entropic state (high likelihood) state of the universe rather than a force. I dont understand it. But physicist denying gravity as an intrinsic force.
Vector means bacterium, virus, or prion-protein. Co-factor means it may be one of multiple causes that might trigger ALS, with the other causes being an environmental shock and/or genetic. Until the cause is known, many doctors might be wary of using organs.
I went to a catholic school many years ago. They taught evolution with "enhancements". One was the de'Chardin theory that evolution was teleological, that is, goal-directed toward perfection. Is was their attempt to reconcile evolution and religion. This is not the precise very of evolution, which is non-teleogical, i.e. goal-less. Otherwise they pretty accepted most of regular tenants like long-time and natural selection.
I wrote a lot of stuff in the 1980s and 1990s under my full name. We just had university accounts then under true names. When the "public" got accounts they of course searched for what little was on the net in the early days my dumb shit came up. For example, usenet used to be wiped every 30 days due to disk space. Who thought google would keep that online forever? I only participate under partial names now.
He invented phrenology , the science of deducing aptitude from skull shape. Phrenology has been modernized by technology, but not verified. Franz could only use the primitive version of skull shape.
Most of the people I keep track of from school are doing some kind software now. Yet none of us majored in it. We have geology, biology, physics, electrical engineering and a literature degrees among us. Its a lot easier to pick up software competency after doing science, than vice-versa.
Auditorium A/C designers know that - about one watt per kilogram resting, triple that when aerobic. Many portable electronics devices can run off a few percent of that energy. It would be nice to capture that energy mechanically, thermally, or chemically.
Many high school kids are looking for thrills. THey concoct all kinds of things to get high. Some are not dangerous like smoking banana peels. Others can be tragic like downing multiple bottle of cough medicine.
He convinced Russia to use insecure version of MSFT-OS all over Russia so the NSA could easily crack their computers, not to mention 8-year old computer geeks.
According to Nick Lane's mitochondria book there are 20 times more mitochondria than human cells in order bodies. And they supply 90% of our metabolic energy. Multicellular animals could not move without them. I instantly though of Star War's mediclodrians mediating The Force.
Due to privacy rights we wont know that for 75 years. But Columbia was a Science Mission and some of experiment trays survived re-entry. Some computer disks could even be read. I heard from talks by the P.I.s in my area there was about 75% experiment success rate and special publication of results. But most of that was due to telemetried data before the accident.
Credit/debit companies make money on volume. They balance a certain level of fraud against the ease of obtaining credit. Thats why there is pin-less debit and signature-less credit below certain threshholds.
(1) Takes extra time to visit a clerk and pay cash.
(2) Amount not recorded automatically. Have to mess around with receipts. During high price periods my gas usage approaches 5% of my budget and should be tracked.
(3) Requires carrying around more cash, especially in periods when prices are high.
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The first modern probe, pathfinder was a cute little thing that mostly just took pictures. Then came the robo-geologists Spirt and Opportunity about the size of golf carts. Now its Curiosity the size of an SUV. It need retro rockets to land instead of airbags. And has more reliable nuclear power instead of solar.
This was in the pre-web days when small town libraries werent very good and you had to leave to have access to books and clever people. The books are now on the web, but the people-part is still important. The job part is secondary; I could always get one of those if I did the education part right.
There was trend in the 90s to bring business consultants to non-profit organization to make them operate more responsibility like businesses. The tell-tale sign was if the organization spouted a "mission statement', a signature of Kinsey methodology. Even sub-units like a professors lab was supposed to operate like a mini-business.
As with any trend, there may have been excesses. But the incorporating some business discipline may have been good.
It was all the features Apple had to add to make the iPhone usable that made their tablet work. These include (1) touch screen & guesture GUI (2) a small screen GUI without the clutter of desktop windows (3) wireless connectivity (4) single-click installation of music, later expanded into Apps. The MS tablets lackrd all these. They were essentually shrunken desktop computers. The Apple iPad is an enlarged smart phone with some phone things taken out. Bill and SteveB dont get it.
The iPhone/iPod/iPad disables many useful features of the underlying UNIX OS like true multi-tasking and hierarchial file systems. Each new version of iOS exposes more of these, but its not enough.
You kind of say that's nice, and never really see it used anywhere again.
I liked the haptic camera: it pushes some rods into you palm depending on the camera illumination. I've heard of developing this for blind people. But its easy to sense these patterns after just a few seconds.
Else it isnt the scientific method. It could be taken to the bring of certainty, but there is always that tiny possibility it could be wrong.
Just the other week there was a paper postulating gravity as an entropic state (high likelihood) state of the universe rather than a force. I dont understand it. But physicist denying gravity as an intrinsic force.
Vector means bacterium, virus, or prion-protein. Co-factor means it may be one of multiple causes that might trigger ALS, with the other causes being an environmental shock and/or genetic. Until the cause is known, many doctors might be wary of using organs.
I went to a catholic school many years ago. They taught evolution with "enhancements". One was the de'Chardin theory that evolution was teleological, that is, goal-directed toward perfection. Is was their attempt to reconcile evolution and religion. This is not the precise very of evolution, which is non-teleogical, i.e. goal-less. Otherwise they pretty accepted most of regular tenants like long-time and natural selection.
I wrote a lot of stuff in the 1980s and 1990s under my full name. We just had university accounts then under true names. When the "public" got accounts they of course searched for what little was on the net in the early days my dumb shit came up. For example, usenet used to be wiped every 30 days due to disk space. Who thought google would keep that online forever? I only participate under partial names now.
Who could forget quality control gem?
He invented phrenology , the science of deducing aptitude from skull shape. Phrenology has been modernized by technology, but not verified. Franz could only use the primitive version of skull shape.
Ignorant people are easy to find, especially among the younger set.
Most of the people I keep track of from school are doing some kind software now. Yet none of us majored in it. We have geology, biology, physics, electrical engineering and a literature degrees among us. Its a lot easier to pick up software competency after doing science, than vice-versa.
every tech company knows that:-)
Tour de France guys exceed 500W in sprints. Power-meters are currently training device and drug detection device.
Whether a launch or not. Significant layoffs were to start in October for the final Feb 2011 launch.
Auditorium A/C designers know that - about one watt per kilogram resting, triple that when aerobic. Many portable electronics devices can run off a few percent of that energy. It would be nice to capture that energy mechanically, thermally, or chemically.
Many high school kids are looking for thrills. THey concoct all kinds of things to get high. Some are not dangerous like smoking banana peels. Others can be tragic like downing multiple bottle of cough medicine.
He convinced Russia to use insecure version of MSFT-OS all over Russia so the NSA could easily crack their computers, not to mention 8-year old computer geeks.
According to Nick Lane's mitochondria book there are 20 times more mitochondria than human cells in order bodies. And they supply 90% of our metabolic energy. Multicellular animals could not move without them. I instantly though of Star War's mediclodrians mediating The Force.
By volume about 7% bacteria and 0.5% viruses.
Due to privacy rights we wont know that for 75 years. But Columbia was a Science Mission and some of experiment trays survived re-entry. Some computer disks could even be read. I heard from talks by the P.I.s in my area there was about 75% experiment success rate and special publication of results. But most of that was due to telemetried data before the accident.
Credit/debit companies make money on volume. They balance a certain level of fraud against the ease of obtaining credit. Thats why there is pin-less debit and signature-less credit below certain threshholds.
(1) Takes extra time to visit a clerk and pay cash.
(2) Amount not recorded automatically. Have to mess around with receipts. During high price periods my gas usage approaches 5% of my budget and should be tracked.
(3) Requires carrying around more cash, especially in periods when prices are high.