Yeah, its my light damage cage... ouch. Although, I wonder what my colleagues would say if they found me sitting in the dark with the computer displays going and me wearing a big honkin pair of Ray-Bans?
Wow, I remember my first hard drive for the TRS-80 Model II that I had. It was a 5MB primary hard disk system that required you to turn a key to power it on, then wait while it ran up sounding like a jet engine before you pressed the "active" button to enable reading and writing. The cool thing about it was that you could actually hack it and get it to work on my later Apple ][+ that I used throughout junior high, high school and half of college before replacing it with a Mac IIci. Oh yeah, it weighed about 20 lbs and was in a case bigger than the Apple ][+ case alone. Finally, the interesting thing is that Kryder's law has been maintained over time like Moore's law and it is stunning how much storage space money buys these days. I seem to recall that original 5MB Tandy hard drive costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $4000, and for that money I can now buy ~16TB of storage like this setup in my office.
I suppose it depends on when you look at the numbers as Amazon gives discrete periods of time when items are selling vs. others. For instance, looking at it now, the Zune is #8, well behind 7 flavors of iPods...
Re: the first link to military expenditures... You cannot remotely call the entire $73.2 Billion dollar military research budget a science budget. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Next, the NASA budget is relatively small, but is mostly directed at applied science at the expense of basic science and all of the budget increases have been targeted towards sending men to Mars. Finally the UN budget is only a small portion of what we should be giving and it should be noted that we are grossly overdue in our payments.
To put things in perspective, the NIH which generates most of the funded biomedical research in this country has a budget of $29.8 Billion or 5.6% of the total military budget and even the military "research" budget outpaces the NIH budget by over 2Xs. So, where do you think we are putting our priorities?
A study of the combat loads carried by 82d Airborne Division soldiers in Afghanistan found that the loads were too heavy. The study--evidently the first study of battlefield combat loads since one conducted by the Marine Corps in 1942--was sponsored by the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dean, the Army's liaison to the institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Field Manual 21-18, Foot Marches, which was issued in 1990, set the maximum weights that soldiers should carry as combat loads--
* Fighting load: 48 pounds. (A fighting load includes a weapon, bayonet, clothing, helmet, loadbearing equipment, and ammunition.)
* Approach march load: 72 pounds. (This load adds a lightly loaded rucksack.)
* Emergency approach march load: 120 to 150 pounds. (This load adds a larger rucksack.)
The average soldier in the study carried a fighting load of 63 pounds, or 36 percent of the average soldier's body weight of 175 pounds, before a rucksack was added. The average approach march load was 96 pounds, or 55 percent of average body weight. The emergency approach march load averaged 127 pounds, or 73 percent of average body weight.
The study found that--
* Soldiers have greater capabilities, but the increase in capabilities has increased the weight soldiers must carry.
* Less essential items now carried by soldiers should be carried in vehicles.
* Body armor should be lighter.
* Load carriage needs to be improved.
* Climate and terrain can exhaust soldiers carrying heavy loads. In Afghanistan, for example, daytime temperatures during the period of the study (springtime) reached 116 degrees Fahrenheit and nighttime temperatures were frigid.
Well, one might even wonder if that is happening in the services now as well... For instance, I was absolutely stunned to see that ladders are now being used to *help* recruits out of the backs of trucks. The recruits line up, hand their weapon to someone already on the ground and step out of the back of the truck and down the ladder. What happened to securing your weapon and hopping out of the back? Learn how to jump Marine!
I honestly do not even know where to begin. My God! This is absolute madness.... political correctness run amok and almost even worse than the religious right's labeling of Bert and Ernie as homosexuals. As one who leans left particularly after the last six years, this sort of thing is a shock back to more centrist practicality and honesty. Shame on the current producers for corrupting the original vision of Sesame Street and creating revisionist history. Oscar the Grouch was *grouchy*, as advertised. So what? Cookie Monster ate the pipe.... so what? It is as it was a vision of the time and a reflection on the changing times of a decade from the 60's to the 70's.
I don't have a problem with things changing, rather I revel in it. However, it makes me sad to see people label what made us who we are unacceptable to todays youth. Parents are far too restrictive with what their kids do, afraid to let them get dirty by playing outside, indoctrinating them with germaphobia from the earliest age, relabeling childrens characters as dangerous pedophiles or attempting to smear them with homosexual labels. The things we used to do as kids would likely get us arrested these days (12 year olds playing with homemade fireworks, carrying shotguns down the street and out to the field to go hunting, swinging from ropes into swimming holes infested with all manner of dangerous wildlife and more).
I don't know what that says of our society but kids watching Sesame Street was just part of the culture and are we now going to be afraid of who we are?
Back in 1982 my folks walked into my room to watch a conversation with a friend of mine overseas as we typed into our Apple ][s back and forth on term. The glowing green letters popped up on a 200 baud connection or something like that a few characters at a time and you could absolutely talk faster which led my Dad to scoff and say "why don't you just pick up the phone?". I told him that is was not just words, but programs that we were sending back and forth and he just did not understand the implications to which his reply was "what does a 12 year old know?".
The funny thing was that at the time that *was* instant messaging, so while email has been around for quite a few years, we now have beautifully designed mobile phones, IM clients of many flavors, tweets and all manner of both temporally immediate and time shifted communiques. It's been an amazing road to watch, but more impressive is that we are still only on the cusp of a much larger communication revolution that's been building for the last 20 years. When distributed networks become truly transparent and ubiquitous, we are going to see a future where todays Internet will look absolutely archaic.
I'll tell you that I just got back from Japan a couple of weeks ago and there is a serious hunger for Apple's products. When there, every time I pulled out my iPhone to check an appointment or change a tune (or anything), I had people asking me all about it. Even in technology jaded Japan where you can watch TV on your cell phone, they are absolutely stoked about Apple's iPhone. My comment to one guy in the Apple store there when I went in to buy a cable and became a minor celebrity due to possessing an iPhone was "what's the big deal, you have the iPod touch", to which he responded, "but that is the iPhone and we don't have that yet!".
Just wait for the true subnotebook or tablet. That is going to sell huge in Japan.
I have to say that after just getting back from Japan that they do have a certain affection for the whimsy even on large scale publicly funded projects that is just awesome. One of the things I saw was a huge platform with a glass top and water on top that served nothing more than a spaceship like cover for a courtyard down below and an attraction. Pics here .
I would have loved to have traveled on these roads while I was there...
As a vision scientist, I have to ask if they controlled for trichromacy vs. dichromacy? In other words, like humans, some monkeys do not see the three colors that most humans do...
No, seriously. You want a cut of iPod revenues? Do you make hardware? Do you demand a cut of the manufacturers who produce DVD players? Do you demand a cut of the Internet carriers? Come on now. How about sticking to content creation and paying good writers to create quality content?
You're right, it should be celebrated and mourned. To me, it is bothersome that the Scientific community would celebrate it as thwarting "those who cling to dogma".
I am unaware of any scientist who is celebrating this as a thwart to "those who cling to dogma". What we are celebrating is the willingness of a scientist to retract his own work when it failed to be held up to scientific investigation and contained errors. The willingness of the classically trained scientist to search for veracity and be enthusiastic enough to put their work up for criticism by ones colleagues while also be willing to retract work that cannot be held as scientific fact is what is to be celebrated.
Lagos is a growing supermetropolis. At current rates, it is expected to be the largest city in the world by mid-century.
My cousin recently spent some time there and while I knew it is rapidly growing, it does not quite qualify as a supermetropolis with a population of just over 200,000 per a 2006 census. Beijing in contrast is looking at something close to 15 Million people, a true supermetropolis by any stretch.
This retraction is to be simultaneously celebrated and mourned. Celebrated in the sense that we have a true scientist who will hold up the scientific process and make every effort to prove himself and the community of scientists wrong in order to make the science stronger. When we have individuals that fail to attempt to prove their work as incorrect, we have to acknowledge that they are being driven by other motives and they are not to be trusted.
This noble effort is also to be mourned because of the manipulation and steering of science to fill political goals driven by lack of scientific understanding in the wider community.
Expect this to be shut down fairly quickly as it is a private directory and marked as "Not for public release"
That said, essentially, what we have is an issue of upkeep. This world does not run itself and requires input to prevent things from running down, so it been said before, but amateurs discuss things such as strategy, but the experts discuss logistics. And it is logistics that need to be organized in times of planning and scenarios run to discover where the logistical chain breaks down. These weak links in the chain are those areas that need attention and typically those are the links that rely upon people to maintain the flow of information/goods/support.
The interesting thing to me is that they appear to have modeled this pandemic spread as originating in Lagos, Nigeria which would be a relatively slow introduction or pathogenic spread into the rest of the world until it hits an area like Beijing, Calcutta or any other rapidly growing supermetropolis where you have hordes of people living in less than ideal conditions right next to others who travel extensively throughout the developed world. Their exercise appears to miss China and Indonesia entirely which could if modeled in lead to much more rapid spread, involving potentially many more people or even invoke or enhance infective "ringing" where waves of infection or reinfection propegate through various large populations.
P.S. exercises like this are important to release to the public as most folks simply do not have any guidance or have given any thought to preparing for such a possibility. What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?:-)
I would not call it alarmism per se. However, I have a couple of friends who are pilots for major airlines and they tell stories that would make you squirm, principally because of general aviation traffic that is increasingly crowding the skies that have to occupy the same "parking space" as a full size commercial airliner.
I am a general aviation pilot with about 800 hours and nothing you saw is the slightest bit out of the ordinary. The "3-5 miles" is the lateral separation for two aircraft in cruise flight at the same altitude.
Actually, those were the episodes where I've been able to have a camera in hand, thus the comments. There have been a couple of other episodes where we've had to spool up an engine and abort a landing due to traffic on the runway. Those I don't have pics for, but have been common enough that they are concerning. As a general aviation pilot, you must realize that the skies are becoming more crowded and ATC is becoming increasingly burdened without any required increase in resources. Just pilot a small aircraft out of crowded airspace to see what I am talking about and you'd have to acknowledge that management for GA that fly at much slower airspeeds on approach or departure from major airports can be problematic.
Your second picture pretty clearly shows you on approach to an airport - SLC. Salt Lake City has parallel runways
But the episode was *over Columbia* and we were flying for some time at approximately the same altitude with nowhere near 1000 ft altitude sep. Now, I was not really alarmed over this episode as we were flying through storms and this was a clear corridor where the pilots were likely in visual and radio communication. What I am concerned about are the statistics behind this NASA report which apparently does have some folks worried. Also, if you note from that entry, there was not alarm in anything that I wrote about with respect to that incident.
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Yeah, now *that* would be seriously hard to explain to my colleagues. :-)
Yeah, its my light damage cage... ouch. Although, I wonder what my colleagues would say if they found me sitting in the dark with the computer displays going and me wearing a big honkin pair of Ray-Bans?
Wow, I remember my first hard drive for the TRS-80 Model II that I had. It was a 5MB primary hard disk system that required you to turn a key to power it on, then wait while it ran up sounding like a jet engine before you pressed the "active" button to enable reading and writing. The cool thing about it was that you could actually hack it and get it to work on my later Apple ][+ that I used throughout junior high, high school and half of college before replacing it with a Mac IIci. Oh yeah, it weighed about 20 lbs and was in a case bigger than the Apple ][+ case alone. Finally, the interesting thing is that Kryder's law has been maintained over time like Moore's law and it is stunning how much storage space money buys these days. I seem to recall that original 5MB Tandy hard drive costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $4000, and for that money I can now buy ~16TB of storage like this setup in my office.
Yeah, just don't let Boyd Coddington anywhere near those salt flats. Look what he did to the Bonneville Salt Flats this year when I was out taking photos.
I suppose it depends on when you look at the numbers as Amazon gives discrete periods of time when items are selling vs. others. For instance, looking at it now, the Zune is #8, well behind 7 flavors of iPods...
Quit with the political spin.
Re: the first link to military expenditures... You cannot remotely call the entire $73.2 Billion dollar military research budget a science budget. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Next, the NASA budget is relatively small, but is mostly directed at applied science at the expense of basic science and all of the budget increases have been targeted towards sending men to Mars. Finally the UN budget is only a small portion of what we should be giving and it should be noted that we are grossly overdue in our payments.
To put things in perspective, the NIH which generates most of the funded biomedical research in this country has a budget of $29.8 Billion or 5.6% of the total military budget and even the military "research" budget outpaces the NIH budget by over 2Xs. So, where do you think we are putting our priorities?
Re: all of the above... Amen.
*VERY* good point.
From Army Logistician. May-June 2004.
A study of the combat loads carried by 82d Airborne Division soldiers in Afghanistan found that the loads were too heavy. The study--evidently the first study of battlefield combat loads since one conducted by the Marine Corps in 1942--was sponsored by the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dean, the Army's liaison to the institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Field Manual 21-18, Foot Marches, which was issued in 1990, set the maximum weights that soldiers should carry as combat loads--
* Fighting load: 48 pounds. (A fighting load includes a weapon, bayonet, clothing, helmet, loadbearing equipment, and ammunition.)
* Approach march load: 72 pounds. (This load adds a lightly loaded rucksack.)
* Emergency approach march load: 120 to 150 pounds. (This load adds a larger rucksack.)
The average soldier in the study carried a fighting load of 63 pounds, or 36 percent of the average soldier's body weight of 175 pounds, before a rucksack was added. The average approach march load was 96 pounds, or 55 percent of average body weight. The emergency approach march load averaged 127 pounds, or 73 percent of average body weight.
The study found that--
* Soldiers have greater capabilities, but the increase in capabilities has increased the weight soldiers must carry.
* Less essential items now carried by soldiers should be carried in vehicles.
* Body armor should be lighter.
* Load carriage needs to be improved.
* Climate and terrain can exhaust soldiers carrying heavy loads. In Afghanistan, for example, daytime temperatures during the period of the study (springtime) reached 116 degrees Fahrenheit and nighttime temperatures were frigid.
Well, one might even wonder if that is happening in the services now as well... For instance, I was absolutely stunned to see that ladders are now being used to *help* recruits out of the backs of trucks. The recruits line up, hand their weapon to someone already on the ground and step out of the back of the truck and down the ladder. What happened to securing your weapon and hopping out of the back? Learn how to jump Marine!
I...um.....*ahem*.......well......ACK!
I honestly do not even know where to begin. My God! This is absolute madness.... political correctness run amok and almost even worse than the religious right's labeling of Bert and Ernie as homosexuals. As one who leans left particularly after the last six years, this sort of thing is a shock back to more centrist practicality and honesty. Shame on the current producers for corrupting the original vision of Sesame Street and creating revisionist history. Oscar the Grouch was *grouchy*, as advertised. So what? Cookie Monster ate the pipe.... so what? It is as it was a vision of the time and a reflection on the changing times of a decade from the 60's to the 70's.
I don't have a problem with things changing, rather I revel in it. However, it makes me sad to see people label what made us who we are unacceptable to todays youth. Parents are far too restrictive with what their kids do, afraid to let them get dirty by playing outside, indoctrinating them with germaphobia from the earliest age, relabeling childrens characters as dangerous pedophiles or attempting to smear them with homosexual labels. The things we used to do as kids would likely get us arrested these days (12 year olds playing with homemade fireworks, carrying shotguns down the street and out to the field to go hunting, swinging from ropes into swimming holes infested with all manner of dangerous wildlife and more).
I don't know what that says of our society but kids watching Sesame Street was just part of the culture and are we now going to be afraid of who we are?
Back in 1982 my folks walked into my room to watch a conversation with a friend of mine overseas as we typed into our Apple ][s back and forth on term. The glowing green letters popped up on a 200 baud connection or something like that a few characters at a time and you could absolutely talk faster which led my Dad to scoff and say "why don't you just pick up the phone?". I told him that is was not just words, but programs that we were sending back and forth and he just did not understand the implications to which his reply was "what does a 12 year old know?".
The funny thing was that at the time that *was* instant messaging, so while email has been around for quite a few years, we now have beautifully designed mobile phones, IM clients of many flavors, tweets and all manner of both temporally immediate and time shifted communiques. It's been an amazing road to watch, but more impressive is that we are still only on the cusp of a much larger communication revolution that's been building for the last 20 years. When distributed networks become truly transparent and ubiquitous, we are going to see a future where todays Internet will look absolutely archaic.
Heh, so then you're telling us you were "big in Japan"?
:-)
Heh, heh.... Indeed.
A bit more seriously, I still wonder why iPhone excitement equates with Leopard though. It doesn't seem to over here in the US.
I think it is just that everything Apple is suddenly very popular in Japan.
I'll tell you that I just got back from Japan a couple of weeks ago and there is a serious hunger for Apple's products. When there, every time I pulled out my iPhone to check an appointment or change a tune (or anything), I had people asking me all about it. Even in technology jaded Japan where you can watch TV on your cell phone, they are absolutely stoked about Apple's iPhone. My comment to one guy in the Apple store there when I went in to buy a cable and became a minor celebrity due to possessing an iPhone was "what's the big deal, you have the iPod touch", to which he responded, "but that is the iPhone and we don't have that yet!".
Just wait for the true subnotebook or tablet. That is going to sell huge in Japan.
I have to say that after just getting back from Japan that they do have a certain affection for the whimsy even on large scale publicly funded projects that is just awesome. One of the things I saw was a huge platform with a glass top and water on top that served nothing more than a spaceship like cover for a courtyard down below and an attraction. Pics here .
I would have loved to have traveled on these roads while I was there...
As a vision scientist, I have to ask if they controlled for trichromacy vs. dichromacy? In other words, like humans, some monkeys do not see the three colors that most humans do...
Ah... Hey Zucker, go shit in your own hat.
No, seriously. You want a cut of iPod revenues? Do you make hardware? Do you demand a cut of the manufacturers who produce DVD players? Do you demand a cut of the Internet carriers? Come on now. How about sticking to content creation and paying good writers to create quality content?
Your cynicism makes me sad...
OK, somebody mod this as funny. I've posted in this thread and cannot moderate it. In fact, there should be a "damn, that *is* funny" mod.
You're right, it should be celebrated and mourned. To me, it is bothersome that the Scientific community would celebrate it as thwarting "those who cling to dogma".
I am unaware of any scientist who is celebrating this as a thwart to "those who cling to dogma". What we are celebrating is the willingness of a scientist to retract his own work when it failed to be held up to scientific investigation and contained errors. The willingness of the classically trained scientist to search for veracity and be enthusiastic enough to put their work up for criticism by ones colleagues while also be willing to retract work that cannot be held as scientific fact is what is to be celebrated.
Lagos is a growing supermetropolis. At current rates, it is expected to be the largest city in the world by mid-century.
My cousin recently spent some time there and while I knew it is rapidly growing, it does not quite qualify as a supermetropolis with a population of just over 200,000 per a 2006 census. Beijing in contrast is looking at something close to 15 Million people, a true supermetropolis by any stretch.
This retraction is to be simultaneously celebrated and mourned. Celebrated in the sense that we have a true scientist who will hold up the scientific process and make every effort to prove himself and the community of scientists wrong in order to make the science stronger. When we have individuals that fail to attempt to prove their work as incorrect, we have to acknowledge that they are being driven by other motives and they are not to be trusted.
This noble effort is also to be mourned because of the manipulation and steering of science to fill political goals driven by lack of scientific understanding in the wider community.
Yeah, but the fast zombies are harder to hit.
:-)
Solution: Better training and more bullets.
Fast zombies or slow zombies?
Bullets work on both kinds, right?
Expect this to be shut down fairly quickly as it is a private directory and marked as "Not for public release"
:-)
That said, essentially, what we have is an issue of upkeep. This world does not run itself and requires input to prevent things from running down, so it been said before, but amateurs discuss things such as strategy, but the experts discuss logistics. And it is logistics that need to be organized in times of planning and scenarios run to discover where the logistical chain breaks down. These weak links in the chain are those areas that need attention and typically those are the links that rely upon people to maintain the flow of information/goods/support.
The interesting thing to me is that they appear to have modeled this pandemic spread as originating in Lagos, Nigeria which would be a relatively slow introduction or pathogenic spread into the rest of the world until it hits an area like Beijing, Calcutta or any other rapidly growing supermetropolis where you have hordes of people living in less than ideal conditions right next to others who travel extensively throughout the developed world. Their exercise appears to miss China and Indonesia entirely which could if modeled in lead to much more rapid spread, involving potentially many more people or even invoke or enhance infective "ringing" where waves of infection or reinfection propegate through various large populations.
P.S. exercises like this are important to release to the public as most folks simply do not have any guidance or have given any thought to preparing for such a possibility. What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?
There is really no need for this alarmism.
I would not call it alarmism per se. However, I have a couple of friends who are pilots for major airlines and they tell stories that would make you squirm, principally because of general aviation traffic that is increasingly crowding the skies that have to occupy the same "parking space" as a full size commercial airliner.
I am a general aviation pilot with about 800 hours and nothing you saw is the slightest bit out of the ordinary. The "3-5 miles" is the lateral separation for two aircraft in cruise flight at the same altitude.
Actually, those were the episodes where I've been able to have a camera in hand, thus the comments. There have been a couple of other episodes where we've had to spool up an engine and abort a landing due to traffic on the runway. Those I don't have pics for, but have been common enough that they are concerning. As a general aviation pilot, you must realize that the skies are becoming more crowded and ATC is becoming increasingly burdened without any required increase in resources. Just pilot a small aircraft out of crowded airspace to see what I am talking about and you'd have to acknowledge that management for GA that fly at much slower airspeeds on approach or departure from major airports can be problematic.
Your second picture pretty clearly shows you on approach to an airport - SLC. Salt Lake City has parallel runways
But the episode was *over Columbia* and we were flying for some time at approximately the same altitude with nowhere near 1000 ft altitude sep. Now, I was not really alarmed over this episode as we were flying through storms and this was a clear corridor where the pilots were likely in visual and radio communication. What I am concerned about are the statistics behind this NASA report which apparently does have some folks worried. Also, if you note from that entry, there was not alarm in anything that I wrote about with respect to that incident.