To borrow a term from the 1990s, few of even the most creative people like JL can get up with the changes on internet time, decade after decade. Last decade's pundits have become ths new cranks.
We are basically looking at three to four screen sizes here:
(1) Desktop will be 20" - 30" because large size is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
(2) Maximum-function laptop will be 15" - 17". Anything larger is too cumbersome to transport.
(3) Easy-go laptop (netbook) will be 11" or less, never larger than a standard piece of paper.
(4) Cell phone screens will hold about 6", the maximum you can fit in a pocket comfortably.
(5) You could have a form factor smaller than a cellphone if projection screens take-off. I've seen demos at SIGGRAPH where you always get a perfect rectangled displayed on a desk-surface or wall, even if you have some tilt in the device. Of course image warping will detect and compensate.
In a decade all will have the computing capacity of a modest supercomputer of today and its memory capacity too.
The force of the earth's magnetic is enough to convect outer liquid core a few meters every day. Over the course of time this adds up to an extra core rotation in several centuries. This effect was predicted in a long term computer simulation of the earths magnetic field by a Harvard physicist. It was confirmed by Columbia University seismologists who measured seismic velocities anomalies in the earth's core have moved several degrees in three decades of good data, pointing to core super-rotation.
This is not the sudden "earth tipover" anticipated by apocalyptists. But it is an amazing rapid event in geologic time scales.
Its only happened once so far - a large storm killed one of two satellites used for pagers in 1994. Since then ground-based cellphones have pretty much replaced pagers.
In 1989 a large solar storm shut down the east Canadian power grid.
In 1859 a monster solar storm knocked out the telegraph system. You could see the aurora all the way to the equator. This storm would probably frymost current satellites and the world's power lines.
China independently discovered the compass over a millennia ago.
It is literally called the "south pointing device".
There was a 50-50 chance of wither direction.
Europeans proabbly wanted someting to supplement the North Star when you couldnt see it.
In China compasses were used for landscaping, i.e. geomancy. South-facing orientations are more important than north in that craft. Thats probably why the traditional compass points south.
Several start-ups developed zip-code based tax collection systems at the dawn of the web era. They were little-used, but exist. The US Congress prohibited "taxing the internet" for most of the 1990s and 2000s to the chargrin of states. Problably would hurt the dot.com bubbles they were speculating in.
Customers hate paying sales taxes too. So many use the internet for that reason.
After two major recessions this decade, governments are re-examining the tax issue.
That was an interesting feat considering vector graphics wasnt invented until the mid 1970s and raster graphics closer to 1980.
We had teletypes made available in our school connected to some local college. Basically it was just a BASIC interpreter. Aroudn that time Conway posted his infamous "game of life" column in Scientific American - one of several times he paralyzed the world's computers with trivial (Mandelbrot too). Life was both graphical. Also it leads to deeper levels of sophisticated data representation shoul you want to get any speed on the kilo-flop machines of that era.
The content is interesting. But you have bore past totally uninformative titles to get to the meat of each section. I would have like to see the reverse- an useful title and the wit in the middle.
Various advocacy groups have been proclaiming severe shortages of scientists and engineers since Sputnik fifty years ago. The loudest voices are computer companies who ask to hire more people from abroad under restrictive H-1B visas. And the National Science Foundation which has a vested interest in ever-increasing numbers of sci-tech students.
On the opposing side are professional societies which worry about unemployment among older sci-tech workers. People are suspicious employers are interested in cheaper and more controllable labor using the visa program.
Personally I think there is not much of an imbalance between supply and demand.
We have cycles where exciting new technologies like PCs, computers and smart phones attract new students. Not to mention get-rich-quick booms like dot.com. Then these are followed for business corrections that flush out the economic mercenaries and leave the dedicated.
I do think there is a shortage of general computer and scientific literacy in broad society. And this needs to be improved.
America gets critized for a lot of things, many justifiably. But its so-called Bill of Rights is mroe firmly followed than in most other countries, inlcuding "liberal Europe". Cults like Scientology and Mormonism are banend in parts of Europe. "Pre-trial publicity" and "reasonable doubt" are not as entrenched in other places liek the during the recent Italian trial of the the Seattle woman.
In earth battles its the assault on the senses: incredibly loud noise all the time, the smells of gunnpowder and burning. And you are in hand-combat situation, you have the bitter smells of sweat and blood, the shooting and screaming. This all helps pump up the adrenaline. In contrast space battles would be mostly sterile and silent, until you took a direct hit.
Carefule about equating tesellation processing with matices. Many matrice operations have N^3 or higher operations. And they may be close to singular (ill-conditioned). Single point precession is poor for both.
Its the tape of the 22 million missing emails, and
the letter in Cheney's handwriting outing Ms. Plume, and
crumpled CIA reports say they couldnt find any WMP in Iraq, and
Clarke's Aug 6, 2001 memo titled "Bin Laden intends to attack the United States".
A hugely expanded sun would be a hot, tenuous gas by the time it expands to earth orbit. People could acutal live in it with minor protection. But the hot gas would relentlessly erode anything on the earth's surface. And eventually it would corrode away the earth itself after millions of years.
The big eye-opener was the injection of fluid at Rocky Mountain Arsenal near denver causing medium size quakes in 1965. This is called induced seismicity . Its been seen around new dams (possibility in last years large Sichuan quake), geothermal drilling, irrigation fluid disposal, water table drops, etc.
Teh question really is political. Was the possibility of I.S. included in the pre-project environmental study? Did they ignore signs of it starting? Was it really caused by their activities.
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The classical google portal has an interesting Newton animation.
To borrow a term from the 1990s, few of even the most creative people like JL can get up with the changes on internet time, decade after decade. Last decade's pundits have become ths new cranks.
We are basically looking at three to four screen sizes here:
(1) Desktop will be 20" - 30" because large size is an advantage, not a disadvantage.
(2) Maximum-function laptop will be 15" - 17". Anything larger is too cumbersome to transport.
(3) Easy-go laptop (netbook) will be 11" or less, never larger than a standard piece of paper.
(4) Cell phone screens will hold about 6", the maximum you can fit in a pocket comfortably.
(5) You could have a form factor smaller than a cellphone if projection screens take-off. I've seen demos at SIGGRAPH where you always get a perfect rectangled displayed on a desk-surface or wall, even if you have some tilt in the device. Of course image warping will detect and compensate.
In a decade all will have the computing capacity of a modest supercomputer of today and its memory capacity too.
(no surname necessary) With Steve around, thre is no need to worry about technological creativity.
Since Nokia cant catch up in the smart-phone market, they resort to patent-trolling. So sad.
The force of the earth's magnetic is enough to convect outer liquid core a few meters every day. Over the course of time this adds up to an extra core rotation in several centuries. This effect was predicted in a long term computer simulation of the earths magnetic field by a Harvard physicist. It was confirmed by Columbia University seismologists who measured seismic velocities anomalies in the earth's core have moved several degrees in three decades of good data, pointing to core super-rotation.
This is not the sudden "earth tipover" anticipated by apocalyptists. But it is an amazing rapid event in geologic time scales.
Its only happened once so far - a large storm killed one of two satellites used for pagers in 1994. Since then ground-based cellphones have pretty much replaced pagers.
In 1989 a large solar storm shut down the east Canadian power grid.
In 1859 a monster solar storm knocked out the telegraph system. You could see the aurora all the way to the equator. This storm would probably frymost current satellites and the world's power lines.
China independently discovered the compass over a millennia ago. It is literally called the "south pointing device". There was a 50-50 chance of wither direction. Europeans proabbly wanted someting to supplement the North Star when you couldnt see it. In China compasses were used for landscaping, i.e. geomancy. South-facing orientations are more important than north in that craft. Thats probably why the traditional compass points south.
Everyone knows much of he H-1B program is abused by employers, temp companies, and many of the workers themselves. "Go away. Nothing to see here."
Chinese are nortious for stealing others people's source code and trying to sell it under various guises.
Several start-ups developed zip-code based tax collection systems at the dawn of the web era. They were little-used, but exist. The US Congress prohibited "taxing the internet" for most of the 1990s and 2000s to the chargrin of states. Problably would hurt the dot.com bubbles they were speculating in.
Customers hate paying sales taxes too. So many use the internet for that reason.
After two major recessions this decade, governments are re-examining the tax issue.
That was an interesting feat considering vector graphics wasnt invented until the mid 1970s and raster graphics closer to 1980.
We had teletypes made available in our school connected to some local college. Basically it was just a BASIC interpreter. Aroudn that time Conway posted his infamous "game of life" column in Scientific American - one of several times he paralyzed the world's computers with trivial (Mandelbrot too). Life was both graphical. Also it leads to deeper levels of sophisticated data representation shoul you want to get any speed on the kilo-flop machines of that era.
Most coding is rather dull to non-prgogrammers. Perhaps something motivational would be scripting or add-ons to a game engine to add your content.
The content is interesting. But you have bore past totally uninformative titles to get to the meat of each section. I would have like to see the reverse- an useful title and the wit in the middle.
Various advocacy groups have been proclaiming severe shortages of scientists and engineers since Sputnik fifty years ago. The loudest voices are computer companies who ask to hire more people from abroad under restrictive H-1B visas. And the National Science Foundation which has a vested interest in ever-increasing numbers of sci-tech students.
On the opposing side are professional societies which worry about unemployment among older sci-tech workers. People are suspicious employers are interested in cheaper and more controllable labor using the visa program.
Personally I think there is not much of an imbalance between supply and demand. We have cycles where exciting new technologies like PCs, computers and smart phones attract new students. Not to mention get-rich-quick booms like dot.com. Then these are followed for business corrections that flush out the economic mercenaries and leave the dedicated.
I do think there is a shortage of general computer and scientific literacy in broad society. And this needs to be improved.
The animal rights peopel have slowed down animal research in the US.
America gets critized for a lot of things, many justifiably. But its so-called Bill of Rights is mroe firmly followed than in most other countries, inlcuding "liberal Europe". Cults like Scientology and Mormonism are banend in parts of Europe. "Pre-trial publicity" and "reasonable doubt" are not as entrenched in other places liek the during the recent Italian trial of the the Seattle woman.
In earth battles its the assault on the senses: incredibly loud noise all the time, the smells of gunnpowder and burning. And you are in hand-combat situation, you have the bitter smells of sweat and blood, the shooting and screaming. This all helps pump up the adrenaline. In contrast space battles would be mostly sterile and silent, until you took a direct hit.
the targets are still rather unsophisticated. Theres lots of latent security in the system should the need arise.
Carefule about equating tesellation processing with matices. Many matrice operations have N^3 or higher operations. And they may be close to singular (ill-conditioned). Single point precession is poor for both.
Real adults take repsonsibility for their actions and words no matter on or offline.
Its the tape of the 22 million missing emails, and
the letter in Cheney's handwriting outing Ms. Plume, and
crumpled CIA reports say they couldnt find any WMP in Iraq, and
Clarke's Aug 6, 2001 memo titled "Bin Laden intends to attack the United States".
Dick was such a pack-rat.
A hugely expanded sun would be a hot, tenuous gas by the time it expands to earth orbit. People could acutal live in it with minor protection. But the hot gas would relentlessly erode anything on the earth's surface. And eventually it would corrode away the earth itself after millions of years.
The big eye-opener was the injection of fluid at Rocky Mountain Arsenal near denver causing medium size quakes in 1965. This is called induced seismicity . Its been seen around new dams (possibility in last years large Sichuan quake), geothermal drilling, irrigation fluid disposal, water table drops, etc.
Teh question really is political. Was the possibility of I.S. included in the pre-project environmental study? Did they ignore signs of it starting? Was it really caused by their activities.
Magma motion quakes look like long continuous sine waves. Regular Earthquakes have impulsive starts for each of the elastic wave types.