Science is part of education which is valued by parents, especially in Asia. In America, parental expectations are not so high, especially among immigrants from the south.
We go through cycles where a samrt science type gets fabulously rich such as Edison or Gates. But money doesnt motivate scientists as much as a passion to know more things.
Securitization tranching assumed financial disasters were statistically independent. In a panic they are not. They teach this in Probability Statistics 101. Goldman Sachs realized this and made a fortune off the the so-called junk-tranches.
Mostly people under 40. Seasonal tends to get people over 65 and under 2.
Once it gets into a youth popoulation it infects 25% of a population or so. This is because no one has had it before. So places like schools or sporting events tend to shut down for a while then.
TV news magazines like Dateline have done several stories about people who drop off of radar, only to to trip over some trivial mistake. Often peopel may contact old relatives. or they repeat jobs or hobbie they had before to make a living.
The New Scientist is correct in saying that new artistic techniques are necessary to properly utilize 3D. However Hollywood has been working on this for several years now. My eyes were opened at recent SIGGRAPH sessions on technical and artistic issues involved. Technical includes avoiding complicated scenes where a foreground object might block one eye-view of the region of intersest. You might not notice these drop-outs consciously, but they can cause viewer headaches.
From an artistic point of view the director has control on the "amount of 3D" in a scene. Elements of interest can be highlighted or even exaggerated in 3D, while backgrounds or less important elements may fade to 2D. For example the company that has been "dimensionalizing" Star Wars movies for Lucas ("dimensionalizing" is converting old stock to 3D from stereo clues in film, similar to what "colorizing" does to B&W). The showed a minute-long clip of a Star Wars space battle scene dimenensionalized in around eight different ways. And the results are artisitically different depending on what the director wants to emphasize.
(P.S. Lucas is perfectionist and not completely happy with the current state of dimensionalization, so he hasnt released the 3D versions yet. The parts I saw were amazing and I cant wait for the entire movies.)
They said that in the 1956 when McCarthy invented the term A.I.
They said this in 1980 when the built the first custom hardware LISP computers.
I am not holding my breath.
I heard an author talk about on The Discovery of Air at the local bookstore. The book is about the correspondence between Priestly and Thomas Jefferson about Priestly's scientific ideas. This author talk was the first time I heard an author say that Google Books was an important reference source for him. This is a sweet spot for Google Books: 19th and early 20th century books out of copyright, but captured by google's university library digitzation effort.
Our library is really cheap and wont replace $10 keyboards until they stop working. So many have keyboards with half of the key labels worn off. Thats when TT is useful!
My company used to pay for gym membership to improve health. This was to counterweight the countyr club golf memberships provided to executives. But a few years back they swithc the wellness program to monthy web pages. Claims this is an improvement because everyone gets these announcements!
Probably bid to lowest US contractor who in turn had outsourced it abroad. When you rush these jobs the specifications scrambled and the testing is sloppy as the results show.
I use to the attend the Santa Clara Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford SLAC in the 1970s where the two Steves drug out their wood-box Apple-I boards. When Radio Shack and Apple started selling these as pre-built turn-key computers I thought that took all the fun out of building them and no one would buy them then. Boy was I ever wrong. In retrospect the revolution so much the hardware but retail software. Before PCs hardware venders mostly wrote their own software with the help of some very expensive mainframe software companies. After PCs there were thousands of new software titles in all kinds of new creative fields.
Case number two was the world wide web coming sooner than I had expected. Yes, in the 1980s I started using networked computers and software from Sun and DEC, e.g. XWindows. But in 1993 this exploded into the public world with home internet, Mosaic & Netscape, and exponentially increasing html pages. I never expected this so fast and so soon. I thought the web would happen around 2010 or 2020.
Smart phones may be a 3rd explosive application along this line. This is a computer-communicator-entertainer always on your body. Plus dollar-store apps, music and video instantly accessable. But at least I expected this third change.
All you you need is one of these revolutions a decade to keep technology accelerating in my opinion.
Symboics was among the first "workstation" companies. A workstation was computer small enough and cheap enough to fit in an office. "Small" was still the size of a washign machine and "cheap" was an employee's annual salary. But this was compared to mini-computers which did not fit in this range. The lisp machines from A.I. companies were first out of the gate, just before UNIX companies.
The Earth is somewhat cool during the Sun's current solar storm activity lull. The Sun's radiation barely decreases during a cycle minimum- about a tenth of a percent- but too small to explain Earth's temperature drop. But solar storms are almost absent at this time. Its poorly understood how they could affect Earth's climate.
I was under the impression Oracle is not too interested in custom chips. The like Sun's servers and Sun software. I presume SPARC will be on the sellers block after the merger.
I saw a trailer for Surrogates at District Nine. It appears to be about people in the real world whose bodies are used (rented) to virtual players. And soemthing goes wrong! Cameron's looks it will have better F/X.
Intersex applies to 50-some conditions where genetics disagrees with biology or the biology itself is ambiguious. Primate males start with appearance of females in the womb and are converted in males. Many things can prevent this.
The head of Oracle and 3rd richest man in the world visited the lowly Java developers conference last month and gave full support for Java inside the new Oracle.
Where you are with a small group of humans with no electronics you are talking directly to each other, looking them in the eye, or at their body language. Sometimes you touch too.
Now when you are in a public space like a coffee-house, walking the street, sitting on the train, etc. many people are communicating with those out of sight and completely ignoring those in sight. To me it feels like a zombie movie.
15 years ago I wouldnt have imagined by now you could buy a fairly functional portable video computer for $5 at 7-11. Then toss it when something breaks or the battery dies. But thats what my "spare" Virgin Mobile 16-color cellphone is.
If they ever get economies of scale in flexible e-paper up to this level, I see e-paper as ubiquous and cell-phone LCD screens someday. In refrigator magnets, cereal boxes, news-sheets, and so on.
Computing capacity is not the issue. With Moore's Law continuing you'll have a tera-op in that form factor by the 2020s. Engineering cleverness is still factor. The video screen cannot get too much larger if its built-in. People have been experimenting with projection TVs in small form factors at SIGGRAPH and the like.
Maybe this will be the impetus to get voice recognition and generation software working well. Typing is always going to be a pain on micro-keyboard or touchscreen, compared to the alternatives.
In fact the limited factor is recording speed and capacity. The large atom-smashers run the receptor data through a preliminary A.I. discrmination programs which save the small fraction deemed interesting. Then slaving grad students will spend years on tiny pieces extacting the significant discoveries.
Some of the large ground telescopes are partnering with Google and MicroSoft to put large portions of their data online. The computer programs and main scientists only have enough time to give a cursory glance at it. Maybe it will be a kid in a junior high school science lab that looks at something more closely and makes a discovery. Some of this is occuring with google earth imagery now.
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Science is part of education which is valued by parents, especially in Asia. In America, parental expectations are not so high, especially among immigrants from the south.
We go through cycles where a samrt science type gets fabulously rich such as Edison or Gates. But money doesnt motivate scientists as much as a passion to know more things.
DVD playing, video, and game repsonses is poor if you can make them work at all. But I think in a year or $300 laptops will do these OK.
Securitization tranching assumed financial disasters were statistically independent. In a panic they are not. They teach this in Probability Statistics 101. Goldman Sachs realized this and made a fortune off the the so-called junk-tranches.
Mostly people under 40. Seasonal tends to get people over 65 and under 2.
Once it gets into a youth popoulation it infects 25% of a population or so. This is because no one has had it before. So places like schools or sporting events tend to shut down for a while then.
TV news magazines like Dateline have done several stories about people who drop off of radar, only to to trip over some trivial mistake. Often peopel may contact old relatives. or they repeat jobs or hobbie they had before to make a living.
The New Scientist is correct in saying that new artistic techniques are necessary to properly utilize 3D. However Hollywood has been working on this for several years now. My eyes were opened at recent SIGGRAPH sessions on technical and artistic issues involved. Technical includes avoiding complicated scenes where a foreground object might block one eye-view of the region of intersest. You might not notice these drop-outs consciously, but they can cause viewer headaches.
From an artistic point of view the director has control on the "amount of 3D" in a scene. Elements of interest can be highlighted or even exaggerated in 3D, while backgrounds or less important elements may fade to 2D. For example the company that has been "dimensionalizing" Star Wars movies for Lucas ("dimensionalizing" is converting old stock to 3D from stereo clues in film, similar to what "colorizing" does to B&W). The showed a minute-long clip of a Star Wars space battle scene dimenensionalized in around eight different ways. And the results are artisitically different depending on what the director wants to emphasize.
(P.S. Lucas is perfectionist and not completely happy with the current state of dimensionalization, so he hasnt released the 3D versions yet. The parts I saw were amazing and I cant wait for the entire movies.)
"Take that you bitch"- Alien Queen versus exoskeleton fight at end of Aliens.
They said that in the 1956 when McCarthy invented the term A.I.
They said this in 1980 when the built the first custom hardware LISP computers.
I am not holding my breath.
I heard an author talk about on The Discovery of Air at the local bookstore. The book is about the correspondence between Priestly and Thomas Jefferson about Priestly's scientific ideas. This author talk was the first time I heard an author say that Google Books was an important reference source for him. This is a sweet spot for Google Books: 19th and early 20th century books out of copyright, but captured by google's university library digitzation effort.
Our library is really cheap and wont replace $10 keyboards until they stop working. So many have keyboards with half of the key labels worn off. Thats when TT is useful!
My company used to pay for gym membership to improve health. This was to counterweight the countyr club golf memberships provided to executives. But a few years back they swithc the wellness program to monthy web pages. Claims this is an improvement because everyone gets these announcements!
Y = 1/300th total chromosome
3600 mutations total
8 generations in 200 years
450 per generation
5 in protein coding section of genome
Probably bid to lowest US contractor who in turn had outsourced it abroad. When you rush these jobs the specifications scrambled and the testing is sloppy as the results show.
I use to the attend the Santa Clara Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford SLAC in the 1970s where the two Steves drug out their wood-box Apple-I boards. When Radio Shack and Apple started selling these as pre-built turn-key computers I thought that took all the fun out of building them and no one would buy them then. Boy was I ever wrong. In retrospect the revolution so much the hardware but retail software. Before PCs hardware venders mostly wrote their own software with the help of some very expensive mainframe software companies. After PCs there were thousands of new software titles in all kinds of new creative fields.
Case number two was the world wide web coming sooner than I had expected. Yes, in the 1980s I started using networked computers and software from Sun and DEC, e.g. XWindows. But in 1993 this exploded into the public world with home internet, Mosaic & Netscape, and exponentially increasing html pages. I never expected this so fast and so soon. I thought the web would happen around 2010 or 2020.
Smart phones may be a 3rd explosive application along this line. This is a computer-communicator-entertainer always on your body. Plus dollar-store apps, music and video instantly accessable. But at least I expected this third change.
All you you need is one of these revolutions a decade to keep technology accelerating in my opinion.
Symboics was among the first "workstation" companies. A workstation was computer small enough and cheap enough to fit in an office. "Small" was still the size of a washign machine and "cheap" was an employee's annual salary. But this was compared to mini-computers which did not fit in this range. The lisp machines from A.I. companies were first out of the gate, just before UNIX companies.
The Earth is somewhat cool during the Sun's current solar storm activity lull. The Sun's radiation barely decreases during a cycle minimum- about a tenth of a percent- but too small to explain Earth's temperature drop. But solar storms are almost absent at this time. Its poorly understood how they could affect Earth's climate.
I was under the impression Oracle is not too interested in custom chips. The like Sun's servers and Sun software. I presume SPARC will be on the sellers block after the merger.
Existenze, 13th floor, Matrix-1
I saw a trailer for Surrogates at District Nine. It appears to be about people in the real world whose bodies are used (rented) to virtual players. And soemthing goes wrong! Cameron's looks it will have better F/X.
Intersex applies to 50-some conditions where genetics disagrees with biology or the biology itself is ambiguious. Primate males start with appearance of females in the womb and are converted in males. Many things can prevent this.
The head of Oracle and 3rd richest man in the world visited the lowly Java developers conference last month and gave full support for Java inside the new Oracle.
Where you are with a small group of humans with no electronics you are talking directly to each other, looking them in the eye, or at their body language. Sometimes you touch too.
Now when you are in a public space like a coffee-house, walking the street, sitting on the train, etc. many people are communicating with those out of sight and completely ignoring those in sight. To me it feels like a zombie movie.
15 years ago I wouldnt have imagined by now you could buy a fairly functional portable video computer for $5 at 7-11. Then toss it when something breaks or the battery dies. But thats what my "spare" Virgin Mobile 16-color cellphone is.
If they ever get economies of scale in flexible e-paper up to this level, I see e-paper as ubiquous and cell-phone LCD screens someday. In refrigator magnets, cereal boxes, news-sheets, and so on.
Computing capacity is not the issue. With Moore's Law continuing you'll have a tera-op in that form factor by the 2020s. Engineering cleverness is still factor. The video screen cannot get too much larger if its built-in. People have been experimenting with projection TVs in small form factors at SIGGRAPH and the like.
Maybe this will be the impetus to get voice recognition and generation software working well. Typing is always going to be a pain on micro-keyboard or touchscreen, compared to the alternatives.
In fact the limited factor is recording speed and capacity. The large atom-smashers run the receptor data through a preliminary A.I. discrmination programs which save the small fraction deemed interesting. Then slaving grad students will spend years on tiny pieces extacting the significant discoveries.
Some of the large ground telescopes are partnering with Google and MicroSoft to put large portions of their data online. The computer programs and main scientists only have enough time to give a cursory glance at it. Maybe it will be a kid in a junior high school science lab that looks at something more closely and makes a discovery. Some of this is occuring with google earth imagery now.