Salary means nothing unless you can compare it to the cost of living in each city. I would suggest a high wage in Silicon Valley is actually lower than many other areas due the the high cost of rent and real estate.
Vat grown protein has been around since before the mid 1980's. Scientists (and Pythagoreans) are already able to produce
yeast/fungi based meat substitues, so why would NASA want to waste its time and money on vat grown muscle tissue.
If they want to grow tissue in vats, why don't they work on organ tissue, i.e. for transplants.
I remember reading the Harry Harrison books Homeworld, Wheelworld and Starworld where there was a similar device. In one of the books (I can't remember which) the main character, Jan, uses a computer that a fellow prisoner had.
This computer was built into a broach on a necklace. Once activated it would create a hologram of a compouter that could be used just like the real thing.
I wonder when the virtual keyboard will become the virtual computer? I would like that quite a lot. Imagine, you just need a small table to place your pen-computer onto and it will project a nice image to interact with. When are researchers going to catch up with strong enough power supplies?
Don't forget anyone can get an exemption from this levy. All you have to do is fill out the proper forms, which are not easily found on the web site (you can get the information anywhere you buy CD-R's though). That should be good enough but what I don't like is the fact that you need to buy more than 1000 CD's per year (or be in a group that does) to be eligible for the exemption.
I guess it's time we all get together in Canada and form levy-free, CD-R buying co-ops.
Don't forget why the Arian 5 rocket blew up in 1996 , a conversion error caused a software shutdown that lead to the self-destruct of the rocket.
"The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer value. The value of the floating-point number was greater than what could be represented by a 16-bit signed integer. The result was an operand error. The data conversion instructions (in Ada code) were not protected from causing operand errors, although other conversions of comparable variables in the same place in the code were protected."
What was the estimate, about $8,000,000,000 of uninsured losses, including 10 years of work for the scientists with satellites on board.
I wonder how many other maiden voyages have started off so poorly, other that the Titanic that is.
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Salary means nothing unless you can compare it to the cost of living in each city. I would suggest a high wage in Silicon Valley is actually lower than many other areas due the the high cost of rent and real estate.
Vat grown protein has been around since before the mid 1980's. Scientists (and Pythagoreans) are already able to produce yeast/fungi based meat substitues, so why would NASA want to waste its time and money on vat grown muscle tissue.
If they want to grow tissue in vats, why don't they work on organ tissue, i.e. for transplants.
I remember reading the Harry Harrison books Homeworld, Wheelworld and Starworld where there was a similar device. In one of the books (I can't remember which) the main character, Jan, uses a computer that a fellow prisoner had.
This computer was built into a broach on a necklace. Once activated it would create a hologram of a compouter that could be used just like the real thing.
I wonder when the virtual keyboard will become the virtual computer? I would like that quite a lot. Imagine, you just need a small table to place your pen-computer onto and it will project a nice image to interact with. When are researchers going to catch up with strong enough power supplies?
Don't forget anyone can get an exemption from this levy. All you have to do is fill out the proper forms, which are not easily found on the web site (you can get the information anywhere you buy CD-R's though). That should be good enough but what I don't like is the fact that you need to buy more than 1000 CD's per year (or be in a group that does) to be eligible for the exemption.
I guess it's time we all get together in Canada and form levy-free, CD-R buying co-ops.
Don't forget why the Arian 5 rocket blew up in 1996 , a conversion error caused a software shutdown that lead to the self-destruct of the rocket.
"The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer value. The value of the floating-point number was greater than what could be represented by a 16-bit signed integer. The result was an operand error. The data conversion instructions (in Ada code) were not protected from causing operand errors, although other conversions of comparable variables in the same place in the code were protected."
What was the estimate, about $8,000,000,000 of uninsured losses, including 10 years of work for the scientists with satellites on board.
I wonder how many other maiden voyages have started off so poorly, other that the Titanic that is.