is beginning to sound suspiciously like Robert Heinlein's future history especially the part where Nehemiah Scudder (G.W. Bush Jr), a religious zealot, is elected President sometime after the year 2000 and turns America into a religious dictatorship.
Rushing hijackers sounds like a good idea and is something I would probably do too unfortunately people are sheep and probably wouldn't help you to disarm the terrorists.
Btw, the hijackers on one of the planes stabbed a couple of flight attendants before breaking into the cockpit.
I keep hearing tales of how Bobby Fischer was the best player ever and that he is probably a better player than Kasparov who seems to be the best player in recent times.
Anyone know if someone has done any analyses of how Fischer's ability compares to other Grandmasters? If this online Fischer can trounce Short in speed chess whereas Short can hold his own with Kasparov then does this necessarily mean that Fischer can trounce Kasparov?
Also why didn't Fischer play Kasparov back in 1992 and what is Fischer Random play?
Nightline was very informative.
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I realize that a lot of people are posting that it is old news but I haven't seen this before and I haven't seen anybody talk about the truly bizarre lightning phenomena that they discussed on Nightline, that is, the wide weakly powered lightning which occurs above the clouds (called Sprites, I believe), the high powered lightning that shoots out from clouds and goes up into the upper atmosphere and lightning that spreads like a halo (called Elves)
They also posited that the Sprites may be weak enough that they could have caused life to form. Other theorists had thought that lightning might have caused life but the power from regular lightning is too strong; however, this new form of lightning is weak enough that it might do the trick according to the researchers.
The blue jets that emanate from clouds and rise up into the upper atmosphere are supposed to be extremely powerful and are considered a danger to stratospheric aircraft, rockets and the space shuttle.
All in all it seems to be very strange phenomena. Add ball lightning to the mystery.
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On the topic of using old computers, I don't think it's because they're hard to maintain. I don't know what you mean by that - my Atari ST needs no maintainance. I don't use it for one simple reason - I have absolutely no use for it. Everything I do on my PC would be completely impossible with that little amount of computing power.
Impossible? Really? I've never had nor seen an Atari ST but I've heard that they had a color GUI with multimedia that for the mid 80's rocked - sort of the Amiga before there was an Amiga. I don't doubt that it probably doesn't have a big hard drive or RAM but I've heard of people porting web browsers and such to the ST.
It seemed like Burton wasn't all out like he is in his other movies. His movies usually are totally infused with his trademark phantasmagoric images and although this one had traces of it...it was still too watered down.
The ape costumes were magnificent and even better than the costumes in the original yet the story and acting of Wahlberg were not up to snuff. I keep hearing that Clooney should've been cast as the astronaut. How ironic that people should say that since both those actors were in Three Kings. I think Wahlberg can be a good actor but just not in this movie.
Probably Ebert is right and this movie shouldn't have been made or they should have made it into something significantly different with more of Burton's style. I rememeber how shocked I was at seeing Burton's Batman! I was totally blown away by that movie.
As for the ending of the movie, some may call it cheesy or whatnot but it is truer to the Pierre Boulle novel than the 1968 movie.
Your mileage may vary. 60 Minutes had an expose where they analyzed HP's hiring practices with regards to H1B visas. They found (somehow someone leaked a salary document to 60 Minutes) that HP was hiring a lot of Indian programmers at a "standard" salary of about $26,500 which is a lot lower than the salary that other programmers who are American citizens were being paid.
A lot of people have to use Outlook at work or whatever. The key is to not click on every email that you get. If it has a suspicious subject line or no subject line then delete it or save it as text and then read it with notepad or something else.
Don't forget that Hitler was also artistic and was a painter. I remember hearing something that if his paintings were better accepted he would never have become a dictator but perhaps stayed a simple painter.
I'll give it a shot, but it's not going to be the same without Charlton Heston screaming "DAMN YOU!" at the end...
I have to agree with that statement. Although the original Planet of the Apes seemed to be sort of a B-movie it contrasted highly with the points in the film (Humans cannot talk, etc) and the acting of Heston making it seem more than a B-movie. I only say that because it seems like Heston had graduated from making epic movies (Ben-Hur and Ten Commandments) to cult movies (though a lot smaller budget) like Omega Man, POTA, and Soylent Green. Even though the sci-fi films he made in the latter part of his career may not have had the production values of other of his films the acting that he did in those films was nonetheless usually on mark as in the statue of liberty scene at the end of Planet...you can truly sense his disgust and rage with humanity.
I did read the novel by Pierre Boulle back in the 8th? grade and thought it was very good but in a different way than the movie.
I hold hope for this new interpretation of Planet though because I love Burton's movies (Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands) but it's always tricky when you do remakes....especially of classics (or cult classics).
IBM has already been doing top notch work with the National Weather Service in forecasting. They worked with the NWS to develop a modeling system called Deep Thunder that could provide highly accurate predictions for a local area (25 miles or so). They apparently used it during the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta to ensure that the closing ceremony would not get drenched.
Read about Deep Thunder in this Wired article and on IBM's web site.
Troopers was a hard book to read. I started and never finished it even though I am a die hard Heinlein fan. Another friend seemed to have the same problem with not being able to finish the book. It was just a really boring read. I don't know what the subtext was about.
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I'd put the "default" folded state for the molecule as a compilation.
Ok.
The dynamic folding behavior of the molecule in the context of an active environment would be equivalent to its execution (perhaps as a thread?).
Its interactions with other molecules would be my equivalent to inter-process/thread communication.
I think this is getting too fine-grained and perhaps making distinctions that don't really exist and it's better to leave it as the idea of a folded protein interacting with its environment as its "run-time behavior."
No. Actually I'm not kidding. Yes, initially when I saw the teaser spots on the sci-fi channel advertising it I thought it was dumb but I ended up watching an episode (I think it was the one where Kai, Stanley and Xev are fighting the other ballons) and really liked it. I was surprised.
I had a similar reaction to the X-files (thought it was dumb but got into it several years after it started).
Anyway I think I've seen the whole third year and still like it a lot. In fact, I'm thinking about getting the original trilogy of movies on DVD.
I think they've got a really interesting cast of characters with the cowardly security guard, the sweet/lizardly sex goddess and cool dead-guy.
The only thing I think sucks is the damn robot head. They should edit that out!
Besides they have cool CGI.
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"run-time behavior" would be folded proteins interacting with other molecules.
Andromeda seems to have elements of the Heechee
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saga by Frederik Pohl if it starts out with a space ship hiding near a blackhole. The Heechee in Pohl's books hide in the center of a black hole to escape a menace that threatens the galaxy.
I think that the Heechee saga (about 4-5 books) would make a really cool movie or series. Wonder why nobody's picked it up?
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Want good sci-fi/fantasy? Try LEXX. They're currently making a new years worth of episodes.
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Actually it is a pretty cool tune. S2 Translation that is.
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The compiling algorithm is not simple! It is very hard. That is called protein folding. It is an unsolved problem. See the IBM Blue Gene project.
Thats great, get out your resume in an economy with 12% unemployment and just wait for the calls to come back to you..
That's so true. In Spain people feel very lucky to get a job! There was high unemployment there during our so-called Boom in the late 90's. You can't just drop one job and go looking for another.
Axioms must be specified with regard to a particular geometry.
Geometries
Euclidean-->Spherical-->Hyperbolic
One of the basic axioms of Euclidean geometry is that a point not on a line contains a line parallel to the line. This kind of sounds like what you meant to say in terms of axioms.
It is true that "world lines" in Spherical geometry are "parallel" to each other and perhaps that is what you are really referring to? IIRC parallel lines in this geometry are indeed parallel since the end points are at +/- Infinity. The lines technically do not ever meet.
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is beginning to sound suspiciously like Robert Heinlein's future history especially the part where Nehemiah Scudder (G.W. Bush Jr), a religious zealot, is elected President sometime after the year 2000 and turns America into a religious dictatorship.
Btw, the hijackers on one of the planes stabbed a couple of flight attendants before breaking into the cockpit.
Anyone know if someone has done any analyses of how Fischer's ability compares to other Grandmasters? If this online Fischer can trounce Short in speed chess whereas Short can hold his own with Kasparov then does this necessarily mean that Fischer can trounce Kasparov?
Also why didn't Fischer play Kasparov back in 1992 and what is Fischer Random play?
They also posited that the Sprites may be weak enough that they could have caused life to form. Other theorists had thought that lightning might have caused life but the power from regular lightning is too strong; however, this new form of lightning is weak enough that it might do the trick according to the researchers.
The blue jets that emanate from clouds and rise up into the upper atmosphere are supposed to be extremely powerful and are considered a danger to stratospheric aircraft, rockets and the space shuttle.
All in all it seems to be very strange phenomena. Add ball lightning to the mystery.
A Scientic American link on Sprites and Elves.
Impossible? Really? I've never had nor seen an Atari ST but I've heard that they had a color GUI with multimedia that for the mid 80's rocked - sort of the Amiga before there was an Amiga. I don't doubt that it probably doesn't have a big hard drive or RAM but I've heard of people porting web browsers and such to the ST.
The ape costumes were magnificent and even better than the costumes in the original yet the story and acting of Wahlberg were not up to snuff. I keep hearing that Clooney should've been cast as the astronaut. How ironic that people should say that since both those actors were in Three Kings. I think Wahlberg can be a good actor but just not in this movie.
Probably Ebert is right and this movie shouldn't have been made or they should have made it into something significantly different with more of Burton's style. I rememeber how shocked I was at seeing Burton's Batman! I was totally blown away by that movie.
As for the ending of the movie, some may call it cheesy or whatnot but it is truer to the Pierre Boulle novel than the 1968 movie.
All in all this remake is plain ok.
Your mileage may vary. 60 Minutes had an expose where they analyzed HP's hiring practices with regards to H1B visas. They found (somehow someone leaked a salary document to 60 Minutes) that HP was hiring a lot of Indian programmers at a "standard" salary of about $26,500 which is a lot lower than the salary that other programmers who are American citizens were being paid.
Because they retracted it twice before. This is the third time. ;)
A lot of people have to use Outlook at work or whatever. The key is to not click on every email that you get. If it has a suspicious subject line or no subject line then delete it or save it as text and then read it with notepad or something else.
Don't forget that Hitler was also artistic and was a painter. I remember hearing something that if his paintings were better accepted he would never have become a dictator but perhaps stayed a simple painter.
I have to agree with that statement. Although the original Planet of the Apes seemed to be sort of a B-movie it contrasted highly with the points in the film (Humans cannot talk, etc) and the acting of Heston making it seem more than a B-movie. I only say that because it seems like Heston had graduated from making epic movies (Ben-Hur and Ten Commandments) to cult movies (though a lot smaller budget) like Omega Man, POTA, and Soylent Green. Even though the sci-fi films he made in the latter part of his career may not have had the production values of other of his films the acting that he did in those films was nonetheless usually on mark as in the statue of liberty scene at the end of Planet...you can truly sense his disgust and rage with humanity.
I did read the novel by Pierre Boulle back in the 8th? grade and thought it was very good but in a different way than the movie.
I hold hope for this new interpretation of Planet though because I love Burton's movies (Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands) but it's always tricky when you do remakes....especially of classics (or cult classics).
IBM has already been doing top notch work with the National Weather Service in forecasting. They worked with the NWS to develop a modeling system called Deep Thunder that could provide highly accurate predictions for a local area (25 miles or so). They apparently used it during the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta to ensure that the closing ceremony would not get drenched. Read about Deep Thunder in this Wired article and on IBM's web site.
Actually I think that he's pretty good at his craft. He did a really good job in "Three Kings".
Troopers was a hard book to read. I started and never finished it even though I am a die hard Heinlein fan. Another friend seemed to have the same problem with not being able to finish the book. It was just a really boring read. I don't know what the subtext was about.
Ok.
The dynamic folding behavior of the molecule in the context of an active environment would be equivalent to its execution (perhaps as a thread?).
Its interactions with other molecules would be my equivalent to inter-process/thread communication.
I think this is getting too fine-grained and perhaps making distinctions that don't really exist and it's better to leave it as the idea of a folded protein interacting with its environment as its "run-time behavior."
I had a similar reaction to the X-files (thought it was dumb but got into it several years after it started).
Anyway I think I've seen the whole third year and still like it a lot. In fact, I'm thinking about getting the original trilogy of movies on DVD.
I think they've got a really interesting cast of characters with the cowardly security guard, the sweet/lizardly sex goddess and cool dead-guy.
The only thing I think sucks is the damn robot head. They should edit that out!
Besides they have cool CGI.
"run-time behavior" would be folded proteins interacting with other molecules.
I think that the Heechee saga (about 4-5 books) would make a really cool movie or series. Wonder why nobody's picked it up?
Want good sci-fi/fantasy? Try LEXX. They're currently making a new years worth of episodes.
Actually it is a pretty cool tune. S2 Translation that is.
The compiling algorithm is not simple! It is very hard. That is called protein folding. It is an unsolved problem. See the IBM Blue Gene project.
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
That's so true. In Spain people feel very lucky to get a job! There was high unemployment there during our so-called Boom in the late 90's. You can't just drop one job and go looking for another.
Geometries
Euclidean-->Spherical-->Hyperbolic
One of the basic axioms of Euclidean geometry is that a point not on a line contains a line parallel to the line. This kind of sounds like what you meant to say in terms of axioms.
It is true that "world lines" in Spherical geometry are "parallel" to each other and perhaps that is what you are really referring to? IIRC parallel lines in this geometry are indeed parallel since the end points are at +/- Infinity. The lines technically do not ever meet.
How about a Op-Amp with a feedback loop?