Robots have gotten quite sophisticated. It has been suggested that even something like
Honda's anthropomorphic concept-robot ASIMO with grasping hands with four fingers and a thumb may be something that could be made to swap Hubble's gyros and batteries.
Sun has a brand name that people recognise. Whether it is in China, the UK, or the USA, managers feel more comfortable going with a known name. (It works for IBM too.)
From the article:
Legal precedent makes reciting the pledge a voluntary act, but Newdow argues it is unconstitutional for students to be forced to hear it, saying the teacher-led recitations carry the stamp of government approval.
Michael why the rant? It has been clearly voluntary for decades. Some refuse to say it for religious reasons. Did you read the article? The is issue is can they be forced to hear a teacher-led recitation and does that give a stamp of government approval?
This radar array sounds nice but I think there is a lot of hype in the article. A more low tech solution to collecting rainfall data and other weather data is to use a community of volunteers. There is in Colorado such a community. The Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Studyi (and Snow too) provides an unique way to study weather in Colorado.
Hybrids are nice but they are just extending the traditional gasoline engine. Here is a car that runs on compressed air. It looks like they have
figured out everything. It is really meant for an urban environment.
There are a couple of negatives that are not problems in city driving.
It has max speed of 110km/hr (66mph) which I suspect means it has a hard
time getting up there. It has a range of over 180 miles at 30mph and 60
miles at 60mph. That is not that much, but in the city it is no big deal.
You can refill in a minute at a compressed air station, or from a home
electric plug you can fill up in 3.5 hours with the compressor that comes
with the car. Since there are likely not any "stations" where you live, you don't want to
run out.
It is a cool car. Literally! Though the engine runs hot, the exhast,
clean air, comes out at -30 to 0C so the tail pipe is cold. They say it
takes about $2 of electricity to fill a tank. Since electricity prices
vary so much I don't know what to make of that. But they are saying it is
cheap. A car costs about $10,000.
Because the rationalism of the modern world has left us without any hope. Alot of comments express alot of pessimism in the future. The modern view of the world is a stark view of the world without any spirituality and moral underpinnings. People have learned that the modern view was lacking. Sci-Fi is a product of the modern world. We are now in a post-modern world and Sci-Fi is therefore not as popular.
The move to jointly develop a server operating system that's based on Linux began in March with a meeting in Thailand of more than 100 software engineers from the three countries.
Microsoft has no reason to cry foul. They will have access to the source code too. They can even improve on the OS and sell it. They just need to make the source code available.
Election fraud should be severely punished. Those in charge need to guarantee that the election has been conducted without any "irregularities". This means that we should hold those in charge and those supplying the equipment to be legally accountable for any problems. Redundancy with paper output would allow for a recount to check to see if there were problems. Any company supplying faulty equipment should be severely punished. The company should be motivated to provide secure and redundant counting. And the elections officials should likewise be motivated to make certain that there is no way fraud can occur.
Was the universe designed for us? Or did we just get lucky?
The string theories are not very satisfying when billions and billions of universes are needed for ours to exist by random chance. The mathematical games played to extend quantium mechanics to bind everything together is impressive, but it appears to be using random chance to explain the rare uniqueness of our universe that allows life to exist. I find that a designer of the universe is a more satisfying solution than using random chance to account for the very rare uniqueness of our universe.
Look at SCO VP Wilson did. He bought at very low prices 12,000 shares for $7920 and turned around and sold the shares for about $129,000. That is a nice profit.
2003-07-15 WILSON, MICHAEL SEAN
Senior Vice President 6,000 Option Exercise at $0.66 per share.
(Cost of $3,960)
2003-07-15 WILSON, MICHAEL SEAN
Senior Vice President 6,000 Sale at $10.66 - $10.8 per share.
(Proceeds of about $64,000)
2003-07-14 WILSON, MICHAEL
Senior Vice President 6,000 Option Exercise at $0.66 per share.
(Cost of $3,960)
2003-07-14 WILSON, MICHAEL
Senior Vice President 6,000 Sale at $10.77 - $10.87 per share.
(Proceeds of about $65,000)
I am an introvert. Meyer-Briggs says so, and spending my High School years in my room reading Lord of the Rings over and over again confirms that. I relax by reading and being alone, or with one other person.
But the older I get the more extroverted I am becoming. I am still definitely an introvert, but though maturing and interacting with people I have become less introverted. I have talked with extroverts and they say they are becoming less extroverted.
I think, for most people, maturing and life causes one to move toward the center from the extremes. I will always be an introvert, but less and less of one.
"Scientists...now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome."
The recent discoveries always seem to add many questions. I seem to hear astronomers saying that they are rethinking their theories. In fact is not your proposed model one of those "rethinkings"? What makes you think that we have it now figured out?
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If I were to say what to do, I'd have people stop wasting time cloning Windows, and use it to make Linux a better Unix. And as for GUIs, I'd like to see a good GUI in the Unix style. Like, say, apps with hybrid command line/graphic interfaces. Graphic pipelines, perhaps? Or if you have to copy it, something in the NextStep/OSX style (last time I checked, GNUStep was nowhere near usable). I don't know.
I am also a user of FVWM, but I have heard of
Enlightenment which is now calling itself a "desktop shell". I don't know much more than that but it sounds like something that would interest you. It is definitely very configurable and pretty.
Jon Udell is lead analyst of the InfoWorld Test Center. He is a blogger, and he is the reason I used to subscribe to Byte Magazine. He does write articles for O'Reilly from time to time, but he works for InfoWorld now. His weblog is here at InfoWorld.
I find the fascination with Extra-Terrestrials quite interesting. Is there some need for us to seek for someone outside of ourselves? Has the search for God been replaced by the search for ET? Are we looking for a God replacement?
The reason I bring this up is that there is a very remote chance that an ET signal will ever be found and an even more remote chance that we will be able to communicate with them (impossible in the foreseeable future). So why spend money when the odds are so very low? What is this fascination?
The universe is pretty amazing. Its design is something that we still struggle with and, IMHO we will always struggle with it. It seems that the more we discover, the more questions we have.
Jon Udell created a bookmarklet called
LibraryLookup to take the URL of the page you are on and pull off the ISBN and check your local library for the book. It can be used at places like Amazon.com. It is a very creative idea of using different websites to create the useful application. Now one would hate to see applications like this be outlawed. Maybe the difference is that the use is personal (fair use) and not "commerical".
Looking way down on their blog you see that Roolge is a temporary name. There is no motive for a Google buyout and they realize the name will not last. Check it out:
blog entry
Science just isn't intended to answer every question. One question it doesn't answer is WHY.
Very often, science does answer the "Why?" question. For example, "Why do apples fall toward the earth rather than in some other direction?", "Why can we construct a nested hierarchy of species on the basis of their morphology?", "Why can we construct a nested hierarchy of species on the basis of the mutations in their genes?", etc.
I disagree. Science answers the question "How things work" not the question "Why?". In your examples above the answer to those questions are "How things work" as defined by the models of gravity and evolution. To illustrate: "Why did the apple hit me on the head?" With science you can describe that at just the time you were under the tree the weight of the apple broke the drying stem and by gravity and aerodynamics fell in such a way to hit your head. That descibes HOW it happened, and does not explain why it happened. People tend to equate the two, because the why question is hard to answer.
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Robots have gotten quite sophisticated. It has been suggested that even something like Honda's anthropomorphic concept-robot ASIMO with grasping hands with four fingers and a thumb may be something that could be made to swap Hubble's gyros and batteries.
Sun has a brand name that people recognise. Whether it is in China, the UK, or the USA, managers feel more comfortable going with a known name. (It works for IBM too.)
Plone is built on Zope, so Zope really wins twice.
Legal precedent makes reciting the pledge a voluntary act, but Newdow argues it is unconstitutional for students to be forced to hear it, saying the teacher-led recitations carry the stamp of government approval.
Michael why the rant? It has been clearly voluntary for decades. Some refuse to say it for religious reasons. Did you read the article? The is issue is can they be forced to hear a teacher-led recitation and does that give a stamp of government approval?
This radar array sounds nice but I think there is a lot of hype in the article. A more low tech solution to collecting rainfall data and other weather data is to use a community of volunteers. There is in Colorado such a community. The Community Collaborative Rain and Hail Studyi (and Snow too) provides an unique way to study weather in Colorado.
If "functional structure" breaks copywrite then all reverse engineering will be considered illegal. This is bad!
It is a cool car. Literally! Though the engine runs hot, the exhast, clean air, comes out at -30 to 0C so the tail pipe is cold. They say it takes about $2 of electricity to fill a tank. Since electricity prices vary so much I don't know what to make of that. But they are saying it is cheap. A car costs about $10,000.
Because the rationalism of the modern world has left us without any hope. Alot of comments express alot of pessimism in the future. The modern view of the world is a stark view of the world without any spirituality and moral underpinnings. People have learned that the modern view was lacking. Sci-Fi is a product of the modern world. We are now in a post-modern world and Sci-Fi is therefore not as popular.
The move to jointly develop a server operating system that's based on Linux began in March with a meeting in Thailand of more than 100 software engineers from the three countries.
Microsoft has no reason to cry foul. They will have access to the source code too. They can even improve on the OS and sell it. They just need to make the source code available.
Election fraud should be severely punished. Those in charge need to guarantee that the election has been conducted without any "irregularities". This means that we should hold those in charge and those supplying the equipment to be legally accountable for any problems. Redundancy with paper output would allow for a recount to check to see if there were problems. Any company supplying faulty equipment should be severely punished. The company should be motivated to provide secure and redundant counting. And the elections officials should likewise be motivated to make certain that there is no way fraud can occur.
The string theories are not very satisfying when billions and billions of universes are needed for ours to exist by random chance. The mathematical games played to extend quantium mechanics to bind everything together is impressive, but it appears to be using random chance to explain the rare uniqueness of our universe that allows life to exist. I find that a designer of the universe is a more satisfying solution than using random chance to account for the very rare uniqueness of our universe.
Look at SCO VP Wilson did. He bought at very low prices 12,000 shares for $7920 and turned around and sold the shares for about $129,000. That is a nice profit.
2003-07-15 WILSON, MICHAEL SEAN
Senior Vice President 6,000 Option Exercise at $0.66 per share.
(Cost of $3,960)
2003-07-15 WILSON, MICHAEL SEAN
Senior Vice President 6,000 Sale at $10.66 - $10.8 per share.
(Proceeds of about $64,000)
2003-07-14 WILSON, MICHAEL
Senior Vice President 6,000 Option Exercise at $0.66 per share.
(Cost of $3,960)
2003-07-14 WILSON, MICHAEL
Senior Vice President 6,000 Sale at $10.77 - $10.87 per share.
(Proceeds of about $65,000)
I am an introvert. Meyer-Briggs says so, and spending my High School years in my room reading Lord of the Rings over and over again confirms that. I relax by reading and being alone, or with one other person.
But the older I get the more extroverted I am becoming. I am still definitely an introvert, but though maturing and interacting with people I have become less introverted. I have talked with extroverts and they say they are becoming less extroverted.
I think, for most people, maturing and life causes one to move toward the center from the extremes. I will always be an introvert, but less and less of one.
"Scientists...now know how the universe will end and are on the brink of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the deciphering of the human genome."
The recent discoveries always seem to add many questions. I seem to hear astronomers saying that they are rethinking their theories. In fact is not your proposed model one of those "rethinkings"? What makes you think that we have it now figured out?
I am also a user of FVWM, but I have heard of Enlightenment which is now calling itself a "desktop shell". I don't know much more than that but it sounds like something that would interest you. It is definitely very configurable and pretty.
Jon Udell is lead analyst of the InfoWorld Test Center. He is a blogger, and he is the reason I used to subscribe to Byte Magazine. He does write articles for O'Reilly from time to time, but he works for InfoWorld now. His weblog is here at InfoWorld.
Does Bill Gates use a Tablet PC? No, he uses a yellow pad of paper. ( Jon Udell's blob, Ron Howard's blog)
I find the fascination with Extra-Terrestrials quite interesting. Is there some need for us to seek for someone outside of ourselves? Has the search for God been replaced by the search for ET? Are we looking for a God replacement?
The reason I bring this up is that there is a very remote chance that an ET signal will ever be found and an even more remote chance that we will be able to communicate with them (impossible in the foreseeable future). So why spend money when the odds are so very low? What is this fascination?
The universe is pretty amazing. Its design is something that we still struggle with and, IMHO we will always struggle with it. It seems that the more we discover, the more questions we have.
Check out his weblog. It is interesting view of life in Baghdad now.
Jon Udell created a bookmarklet called LibraryLookup to take the URL of the page you are on and pull off the ISBN and check your local library for the book. It can be used at places like Amazon.com. It is a very creative idea of using different websites to create the useful application. Now one would hate to see applications like this be outlawed. Maybe the difference is that the use is personal (fair use) and not "commerical".
From the colocation page ( http://www.masonpud3.org/Telecom/Colocation/): Featuring a Gigabit (1,024 megabit/second) Backbone through the entire county!
Looking way down on their blog you see that Roolge is a temporary name. There is no motive for a Google buyout and they realize the name will not last. Check it out: blog entry
Very often, science does answer the "Why?" question. For example, "Why do apples fall toward the earth rather than in some other direction?", "Why can we construct a nested hierarchy of species on the basis of their morphology?", "Why can we construct a nested hierarchy of species on the basis of the mutations in their genes?", etc.
I disagree. Science answers the question "How things work" not the question "Why?". In your examples above the answer to those questions are "How things work" as defined by the models of gravity and evolution. To illustrate: "Why did the apple hit me on the head?" With science you can describe that at just the time you were under the tree the weight of the apple broke the drying stem and by gravity and aerodynamics fell in such a way to hit your head. That descibes HOW it happened, and does not explain why it happened. People tend to equate the two, because the why question is hard to answer.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDus t/ u st/
http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~warneke/SmartD