I don't have proof of this, just a few shows I saw on TLC and the Discovery channels... Lightning as we know it behaves in a specific way. It travels in the path of least resistance. The earth puts up "finger" like tenticals of plasma, basicly an opening conduit for the electricity. The energy travels underground in a tight path, very little dispersion. This is evidenced in the glass "tube" it leaves behind in sandy areas. Not for 100s of feet beneath the ground is the lightning actualy "grounded out". So life would have had to develop 100s of feet beneath the earth for the potency of lightning to have "fizzed out" enough not to vaporize the water in the primordial soup and giving the gentel nudge for life. Anyway for life to have developed 100s of feet beneath the surface and then thrive, and finaly surface is a little bit of a stretch when we cannot reproduce these things in a lab using "ideal" conditions.
If we are talking scientifically... Where are the experiments proving that self replicating organisims can be created from non living material? There is no proof, which makes any comment on a theory, only that, a comment. I'm not debunking or trying to debunk a fact. It is the "Theory of Evolution", not the "Fact of Evolution"
I've seen science described as this...
"Science is a process of searching for fundamental and universal principles that govern causes and effects in the universe. The process itself is a method of building, testing, and connecting falsifiable models to describe, explain and predict a shared reality. The method includes hypothesis, repeatable experiments and observations, and new hypothesis. The prime criterion in determining the usefulness of a model is the ease with which the model correctly makes predictions or explains phenomena in the shared reality."
Taken this definition, the shared reality is life. Life exsists, so now the hypothesis of "The Theory of Evolution" has been created to explain the phenomena of life. Now to follow this definition what models have been created to describe, explain, and predict life? This isn't a sequecne of "OR"s; this is a sequence "AND"s. Describe and explain, and predict evolution. There is no expirement in exsistance! Nothing has shown the last 2. All we have is a theory with very little substanstiating evidence.
Now as to weather my comments have any validity to them... if you would like, please provide some information that shows that the Theory of Evolution states that we did not come from rocks. If you cannot then your statement is even more "scientifically illiterate" than mine.
Considering then that lightning was a major factor in the beginning of life, would it not be logical to assume that life would have evolved to be resistant to the effects of lightning, or even benefit from lightning strkes? But what is seen is exactly oppsite. Lightning kills life, just ask my neighbor about his tree after a "dark and stormy night." Anyway, if lightning was so common, then multiple strikes in the same area or place would be common/possible. And that life being just formed would then be killed?
Evolution basicly states that we came from rocks. Yea Yea I know primordial soup... But where did the soup come from? Rain for millions of years breaking down the rocks to... You guessed it soup!
Or the rock from space carrying bacteria... Hmmm... How did the bacteria form on that other world?
I've been living on my own since '97, I've been married since the end of '99. On the credit report it says nothing about my parents. Also those credit cards are used in totaling up my credit score. Also only about 1/4 or less of my parents credit history is on my report. If you were correct then don't you think that all of my parents history would be on the report? Last and final point, I've asked the loan officers and credit agencies, they say that my parents history should not be on my report.
Mary Culnan, a business professor and information technology specialist, said she believes the database will eventually mistakenly identify people who have similar names, or prompt financial services officials to incorrectly spurn some customers.
The current system mistakenly identifys people!
I'm in the process of getting a mortgage, so I got a copy of my credit report. I was so supprised to find out that about 40% of the accounts on the report are not my own. Most are my fathers, we have the same name, I'm a Jr. Anyway the information on there is so badly maintained it is scarry.
For example there is somthing on the report from '78, I was born in '77. Aparently I was buying diapers for my self with a VISA. In '89 there was a credit card opend with a limit of $11K, I was in 6th grade at the time, I bought lots of candy for my friends with that Mastercard!
All joking aside. The system is broken now, the new system will be just as broken. I'm guessing that it will be "more broken" because it will be in the name of finding the terrorists to protect the children, or some such crap! This war on terror is now way out of hand in the political arena, our poloticians are using it to accumulate power.
The day "Emergency Powers" are granted to the president of the USA is the day I head for the hills. I fear that day is soon approaching!
You bring up one of the risks but consider some of the others.
If they are a wearable computer screen and the computer is on the net, somebody could hack it and start manipulating what you see.
The use for mind control and torture using a helmit type device.
Running software that projects nude bodies onto everybody using approximations of thier visable features/coloring. Would society be comfortable with people walking around like this? What are the implications of child molestors and rapists getting one of these units with that type of software.
Face recognition software that also reads emotions and physological responses. Would this give the technology elite over everybody else?
These are just a few things that I could think of in 5 min, what other possibilities are there?
Why couldn't AOL put together an install env that all it needs is the ppp drivers in the kernel. Where then it could chroot to a controlled AOL env and run the client?
Good point to a certian degree, but what I think has got everybodys fur up is the fact that it was hidden from the users and was not mentioned in the privacy policy at all. The fact they have hidden this monitoring from users smells of rank mony grubbing by selling/using this information to exploit a persons browsing habits. If it is clearly stated that there is monitoring going on and it is executed in an anonymous way then I think most people would not have a problem with it.
Even though I said all that the big stinker is the fact they are uniquely identifying the "anonymous" user. Thus enabling them to build a database of specific, but unidentifable users habbits. From this they could have a registration process later, for some ubsecure services that a user "absolutely needs", that match this unique but anonymous id to an actual person, exposing them to unwanted data farming.
You bring up a good point, but everything I've read so far is missing, IMHO, a big point. We as humans are very proud, our technology allows us to live a very lavish life compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, some may argue the other way but I digress. The fact that our lavish lives produce waste is a natural byproduct of living in such a way. The only thing we can do is reduce the amount of waste we produce. So the question is, are we so proud as to think that our waste is hurting the environment? Is our puny race so big as to change the "health" of our planet?
Our planet can throw up a volcanic erruption that produces more pollution than humans have in known history, except for nuclear detonations, which again I digress. Below you will find some links supporting my claim. Now over the past 200 years how many volcanoes have errupted? I cannot find any links for cronology but just from memory, which mine is very bad for names and dates, we got Mt. St. Hellens, Mt. Penetubio, constant volcanic activity in Hawaii, and quite a few others. What impact have they been having on our environment. Each one of the "major" eruptions produces more than humans have ever produced. Yes humans produce differnt types, but in such small quantities comparitivly speaking, how can we measure their impact when the overwealming amount volcanic polution would most definatly interfere with our research.
So I agree that we should err on the side of caution. I agree we should produce less waiste. But are we bringing about the end of the world? I don't think so, not while volcanos have been doing much more "damage" than we every possibly could concieve of doing.
So my final point is, the ppl that are screaming that we are destroying the planet are just overly proud.
I found that if you confront them and show them how much you know and how confident you are at your job then they will learn to respect your level of knowledge.
Wrong-o. If you confront a senior manager and start a showdown, you will win the battle and lose the war, looking like a cocky jerk.
Wrong-o to you. You can confront anybody, even the most ferocious senior manager and still do it correctly where sometimes they thank you for doing it! I started professional programming when I was 16, 2 days after my 16th birthday. It was a GUI for CCD camera, used in medical environments. When they realized that I could learn very quickly I started doing drivers for the board and doing image processing. This all by the time I was 17! During this time there were many conflicts between me and the Sr. Engineer, we were a 2 man team, I did software and he did hardware. His first week there he couldn't get the drivers working for a video card, the mouse stopped working. He completely disregarded me, I asked if I could help, looked at the computer, i.e. config.sys and autoexec.bat. I went back to my desk and thought for about 5 min, came back and installed a new mouse driver, everything worked. He took credit for it in front of me to the president of the company. I knew he thought his job was in trouble, which didn't make sense because he was the hardware engineer and wasn't expected to be an expert in PC operation, so I didn't say anything. After that I made sure I reported to my supervisor as soon as I did something that he might take credit for. Well as it turned out he tried that a couple of times and got in big trouble and immediately I was immune to his ability to slander me. Lesson learned, CYA, Cover Your A$$! Make sure that the person that really makes the decisions knows what you do when you do it.
The above has nothing to do with confrontation but this does, I lost the above job because I would not work full time instead of going to college for $8/hour. They became cheap bastards and wanted me cheap. I took the free time and worked on a project at Oakland University in Auburn Hills MI. The project was ART, Aerial Robots Team, we were developing a unmanned helicopter, to map a simulated toxic waste field and identify and differentiate between radio active and biohazardous symbols, they were on barrels so they could be flat, curved and angled. I headed up the image recognition team because of my previous experience. I mostly worked with seniors working on their sr. project. Because I was a freshman
I could not get any credits, even though I was helping the seniors. Anyway the professors found out that there was a freshman that could program, they basically fought over me, usually they got someone for 1.5 years, now they could get somebody for 4 years. Well, one of them eventually threatened/bribed me with my grades if I didn't work for him or worked for him. I was about to go to the dean when I got a job offer for a position in Annapolis working for a company that was contracted by the largest heating and cooling company in the world. Lesson learned if somebody has the power to ruin you for life, i.e. grades, and you have a way to get out, GET OUT!
This job was truly "professional," politics and all! Everybody thought I was jr level material. I saw the environment and played up to everybody's expectations, saying nothing, correcting nobody. I asked questions even when I knew the answer, sometimes I got a incorrect answer. But it made the people fell good. I was not a threat until... There was a major problem with the application, we were developing on win95 but this was for a win3.1 box. Many messages were being lost on the win3.1 box, i.e. select a menu and a submenu would not pop up, everything happend randomly. I found the problem and corrected it. This would have been a major show stopper. I spent about 2 days working on it while EVERYBODY
laughed and said it was impossible, except one person, my team leader. When I fixed it everybody was shocked and became very jealous, but they could do nothing. Management already knew they were behind schedule and I saved them from major embarrassment. This is when I knew I could start to really perform, I saved management, baled them out, got a huge ally. I checked in some work that I had been holding back that really impressed everybody, increasing the jealousy. I started working at 100% instead of 50% and they could not believe my speed. Management loved it, and eventually my coworkers accepted it. Until the manager from hell came in. She was the devil. She was vicious, cold, calculating, and ruthless. She wanted it to be her team, basically at one point she threatened to fire everybody and hire all new people. She ended up following through with her threat except for me. She could not get rid of me or fire me. She tried I know, but there was a small project that I had worked on previously during a slow time in the main project, I completed it under budget and time, by about 20%. Management could not afford to loose me. All this happened in 1 year, From the time I was 19 to 20. I quickly became one of the most important people on the project because I had proven that I saved the company money. By the way I was a contractor through this whole experience, and she still could not touch me.
When management sees $$$ nothing else matters, NOTHING! So my advise to anybody in a bad situation, become as least threatening as possible, wait for your moment and shine. Make sure management will see it, make sure they will understand your impact on the bottom line. If you can do that you will be untouchable. All this goes for any company except the big 3 and EDS, and maybe a few other HUGE companies. My advise there is run as fast as you can from those jobs.
As we understand the universe better and better, I believe we will begin to see nature using/demonstrating "advanced" scientific principal as we begin to understand them.
This can be shown with bees
You make a great point but there is one other thing to research that most ppl ignore, Serendipity.
By Dictionary.com
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveriesby accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.
With any type of research their is the possibility for a serendipitious event leading to limitless possiblities. Here are a few
So as you say pure research does have advantages. It may produce somthing completely unrelated to the research, or it may produce immediate results based largly on chance and largly on the observation abilities of the ones performing the expiremnts/research.
Another possiblity is the industry is waiting to see the viability of 10+ layer fluorescent disks that hold 100GB+ of data. Constilation 3D developed the FMD drive which appears to be an incredible technology. You can read about them here and you can check out their stock here
From the article...
All of this takes place not in software but hardware. The chips are called Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The ones Thompson uses come from San Jose chip-maker Xilinx. The transistors of the chip appear as an array of "logic cells," which can be changed in value and connected to any other cell on the fly. By reprogramming a chip's memory, its logic cells can be tuned for any task at hand.
Is it me or does this sound like the construction of neurologic pathways in the brain?
If the raw material of the FPGA becomes abundant enough and the origional programming of the chip is sufficently flexable, could we be looking at possilbe computer that evolves at billions/trillions times faster than a biologic organisim.
If you look at it this way, saying that life took 4 billion years to eveolve to the sentient state that humans are, could we be looking at an AI system as intelligent/creative as we are in a few days/weeks/months? Now let this system develop for a few years, what are the possiblities then?
just a few thougts.
BTW, This seems similar to the technology in Terminator 2.
This also allows for farmers to destroy competitors. On dark and windy night you happen to drive by farmer Bill, your competitor, and take a handfull of seens and throw them to the wind. Well after a couple of years you report him to the company that holds the patents on the genes and you have seccessfully put a competitor out of business.
You are close this time, but not quite hitting the mark, the question that begs asking is "Why do kids bully other kids?" This is the big question. In my experience almost every bully has had either a broken home environment, ie divorce, or signifigant emotional and or physical abuse.
So the question should be, "Why are kids harassing (abusing) other kids?" Because they need to feel good about themselves. How do children learn to feel good? Mainly from their primary care givers, in most cases their parents, and what they have learned? Abuse.
They have learned! The RIAA is moved by greed. Greed forces you to learn fast how to keep/make your money. They know that it is inevitable that music will be online but they want to delay it as much as possible. Why???? Because they will make more money in the process.
They are claiming that there is no way to guarantee, because they know that it will delay putting the music online, which, in their eyes, means more $$.
They know that online is the way of the future and there is no way out of it, they are just trying to delay it to get more $$.
IMHO, I believe that they would make more mony buy selling music online the same way internet access is sold. You have unlimited access for X $$ per month. I'd sign up in a second if it was $20 or under. But that is just my opinion.
But now Joe consumer has a trick up his sleeve. He can make his own CDs, a.k.a. CDR. Perfect copies of the origional, not possible in the days of vinyl. So the old tricks will fail.
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I don't have proof of this, just a few shows I saw on TLC and the Discovery channels... Lightning as we know it behaves in a specific way. It travels in the path of least resistance. The earth puts up "finger" like tenticals of plasma, basicly an opening conduit for the electricity. The energy travels underground in a tight path, very little dispersion. This is evidenced in the glass "tube" it leaves behind in sandy areas. Not for 100s of feet beneath the ground is the lightning actualy "grounded out". So life would have had to develop 100s of feet beneath the earth for the potency of lightning to have "fizzed out" enough not to vaporize the water in the primordial soup and giving the gentel nudge for life. Anyway for life to have developed 100s of feet beneath the surface and then thrive, and finaly surface is a little bit of a stretch when we cannot reproduce these things in a lab using "ideal" conditions.
I know I'm responding to flaimbait here but...
If we are talking scientifically... Where are the experiments proving that self replicating organisims can be created from non living material? There is no proof, which makes any comment on a theory, only that, a comment. I'm not debunking or trying to debunk a fact. It is the "Theory of Evolution", not the "Fact of Evolution"
I've seen science described as this...
"Science is a process of searching for fundamental and universal principles that govern causes and effects in the universe. The process itself is a method of building, testing, and connecting falsifiable models to describe, explain and predict a shared reality. The method includes hypothesis, repeatable experiments and observations, and new hypothesis. The prime criterion in determining the usefulness of a model is the ease with which the model correctly makes predictions or explains phenomena in the shared reality."
Taken this definition, the shared reality is life. Life exsists, so now the hypothesis of "The Theory of Evolution" has been created to explain the phenomena of life. Now to follow this definition what models have been created to describe, explain, and predict life? This isn't a sequecne of "OR"s; this is a sequence "AND"s. Describe and explain, and predict evolution. There is no expirement in exsistance! Nothing has shown the last 2. All we have is a theory with very little substanstiating evidence.
Now as to weather my comments have any validity to them... if you would like, please provide some information that shows that the Theory of Evolution states that we did not come from rocks. If you cannot then your statement is even more "scientifically illiterate" than mine.
Considering then that lightning was a major factor in the beginning of life, would it not be logical to assume that life would have evolved to be resistant to the effects of lightning, or even benefit from lightning strkes? But what is seen is exactly oppsite. Lightning kills life, just ask my neighbor about his tree after a "dark and stormy night." Anyway, if lightning was so common, then multiple strikes in the same area or place would be common/possible. And that life being just formed would then be killed?
Just food for thought!
Just curious, what is the alternative?
Evolution or what?
Evolution basicly states that we came from rocks. Yea Yea I know primordial soup... But where did the soup come from? Rain for millions of years breaking down the rocks to... You guessed it soup!
Or the rock from space carrying bacteria... Hmmm... How did the bacteria form on that other world?
So what do you believe?
You may be right but what would Yoda say?
"A right do not 2 wrongs make!"
I've been living on my own since '97, I've been married since the end of '99. On the credit report it says nothing about my parents. Also those credit cards are used in totaling up my credit score. Also only about 1/4 or less of my parents credit history is on my report. If you were correct then don't you think that all of my parents history would be on the report? Last and final point, I've asked the loan officers and credit agencies, they say that my parents history should not be on my report.
Mary Culnan, a business professor and information technology specialist, said she believes the database will eventually mistakenly identify people who have similar names, or prompt financial services officials to incorrectly spurn some customers.
The current system mistakenly identifys people!
I'm in the process of getting a mortgage, so I got a copy of my credit report. I was so supprised to find out that about 40% of the accounts on the report are not my own. Most are my fathers, we have the same name, I'm a Jr. Anyway the information on there is so badly maintained it is scarry.
For example there is somthing on the report from '78, I was born in '77. Aparently I was buying diapers for my self with a VISA. In '89 there was a credit card opend with a limit of $11K, I was in 6th grade at the time, I bought lots of candy for my friends with that Mastercard!
All joking aside. The system is broken now, the new system will be just as broken. I'm guessing that it will be "more broken" because it will be in the name of finding the terrorists to protect the children, or some such crap! This war on terror is now way out of hand in the political arena, our poloticians are using it to accumulate power.
The day "Emergency Powers" are granted to the president of the USA is the day I head for the hills. I fear that day is soon approaching!
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If they are a wearable computer screen and the computer is on the net, somebody could hack it and start manipulating what you see.
-
The use for mind control and torture using a helmit type device.
-
Running software that projects nude bodies onto everybody using approximations of thier visable features/coloring. Would society be comfortable with people walking around like this? What are the implications of child molestors and rapists getting one of these units with that type of software.
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Face recognition software that also reads emotions and physological responses. Would this give the technology elite over everybody else?
These are just a few things that I could think of in 5 min, what other possibilities are there?Why couldn't AOL put together an install env that all it needs is the ppp drivers in the kernel. Where then it could chroot to a controlled AOL env and run the client?
Good point to a certian degree, but what I think has got everybodys fur up is the fact that it was hidden from the users and was not mentioned in the privacy policy at all. The fact they have hidden this monitoring from users smells of rank mony grubbing by selling/using this information to exploit a persons browsing habits. If it is clearly stated that there is monitoring going on and it is executed in an anonymous way then I think most people would not have a problem with it.
Even though I said all that the big stinker is the fact they are uniquely identifying the "anonymous" user. Thus enabling them to build a database of specific, but unidentifable users habbits. From this they could have a registration process later, for some ubsecure services that a user "absolutely needs", that match this unique but anonymous id to an actual person, exposing them to unwanted data farming.
You bring up a good point, but everything I've read so far is missing, IMHO, a big point. We as humans are very proud, our technology allows us to live a very lavish life compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, some may argue the other way but I digress. The fact that our lavish lives produce waste is a natural byproduct of living in such a way. The only thing we can do is reduce the amount of waste we produce. So the question is, are we so proud as to think that our waste is hurting the environment? Is our puny race so big as to change the "health" of our planet?
Our planet can throw up a volcanic erruption that produces more pollution than humans have in known history, except for nuclear detonations, which again I digress. Below you will find some links supporting my claim. Now over the past 200 years how many volcanoes have errupted? I cannot find any links for cronology but just from memory, which mine is very bad for names and dates, we got Mt. St. Hellens, Mt. Penetubio, constant volcanic activity in Hawaii, and quite a few others. What impact have they been having on our environment. Each one of the "major" eruptions produces more than humans have ever produced. Yes humans produce differnt types, but in such small quantities comparitivly speaking, how can we measure their impact when the overwealming amount volcanic polution would most definatly interfere with our research.
So I agree that we should err on the side of caution. I agree we should produce less waiste. But are we bringing about the end of the world? I don't think so, not while volcanos have been doing much more "damage" than we every possibly could concieve of doing.
So my final point is, the ppl that are screaming that we are destroying the planet are just overly proud.
volcanoes.usgs.gov
geopubs.wr.usgs.gov
hvo.wr.usgs.gov
solcomhouse.com
Just their way of training!
I found that if you confront them and show them how much you know and how confident you are at your job then they will learn to respect your level of knowledge.
Wrong-o. If you confront a senior manager and start a showdown, you will win the battle and lose the war, looking like a cocky jerk.
Wrong-o to you. You can confront anybody, even the most ferocious senior manager and still do it correctly where sometimes they thank you for doing it! I started professional programming when I was 16, 2 days after my 16th birthday. It was a GUI for CCD camera, used in medical environments. When they realized that I could learn very quickly I started doing drivers for the board and doing image processing. This all by the time I was 17! During this time there were many conflicts between me and the Sr. Engineer, we were a 2 man team, I did software and he did hardware. His first week there he couldn't get the drivers working for a video card, the mouse stopped working. He completely disregarded me, I asked if I could help, looked at the computer, i.e. config.sys and autoexec.bat. I went back to my desk and thought for about 5 min, came back and installed a new mouse driver, everything worked. He took credit for it in front of me to the president of the company. I knew he thought his job was in trouble, which didn't make sense because he was the hardware engineer and wasn't expected to be an expert in PC operation, so I didn't say anything. After that I made sure I reported to my supervisor as soon as I did something that he might take credit for. Well as it turned out he tried that a couple of times and got in big trouble and immediately I was immune to his ability to slander me. Lesson learned, CYA, Cover Your A$$! Make sure that the person that really makes the decisions knows what you do when you do it.
The above has nothing to do with confrontation but this does, I lost the above job because I would not work full time instead of going to college for $8/hour. They became cheap bastards and wanted me cheap. I took the free time and worked on a project at Oakland University in Auburn Hills MI. The project was ART, Aerial Robots Team, we were developing a unmanned helicopter, to map a simulated toxic waste field and identify and differentiate between radio active and biohazardous symbols, they were on barrels so they could be flat, curved and angled. I headed up the image recognition team because of my previous experience. I mostly worked with seniors working on their sr. project. Because I was a freshman I could not get any credits, even though I was helping the seniors. Anyway the professors found out that there was a freshman that could program, they basically fought over me, usually they got someone for 1.5 years, now they could get somebody for 4 years. Well, one of them eventually threatened/bribed me with my grades if I didn't work for him or worked for him. I was about to go to the dean when I got a job offer for a position in Annapolis working for a company that was contracted by the largest heating and cooling company in the world. Lesson learned if somebody has the power to ruin you for life, i.e. grades, and you have a way to get out, GET OUT!
This job was truly "professional," politics and all! Everybody thought I was jr level material. I saw the environment and played up to everybody's expectations, saying nothing, correcting nobody. I asked questions even when I knew the answer, sometimes I got a incorrect answer. But it made the people fell good. I was not a threat until... There was a major problem with the application, we were developing on win95 but this was for a win3.1 box. Many messages were being lost on the win3.1 box, i.e. select a menu and a submenu would not pop up, everything happend randomly. I found the problem and corrected it. This would have been a major show stopper. I spent about 2 days working on it while EVERYBODY laughed and said it was impossible, except one person, my team leader. When I fixed it everybody was shocked and became very jealous, but they could do nothing. Management already knew they were behind schedule and I saved them from major embarrassment. This is when I knew I could start to really perform, I saved management, baled them out, got a huge ally. I checked in some work that I had been holding back that really impressed everybody, increasing the jealousy. I started working at 100% instead of 50% and they could not believe my speed. Management loved it, and eventually my coworkers accepted it. Until the manager from hell came in. She was the devil. She was vicious, cold, calculating, and ruthless. She wanted it to be her team, basically at one point she threatened to fire everybody and hire all new people. She ended up following through with her threat except for me. She could not get rid of me or fire me. She tried I know, but there was a small project that I had worked on previously during a slow time in the main project, I completed it under budget and time, by about 20%. Management could not afford to loose me. All this happened in 1 year, From the time I was 19 to 20. I quickly became one of the most important people on the project because I had proven that I saved the company money. By the way I was a contractor through this whole experience, and she still could not touch me.
When management sees $$$ nothing else matters, NOTHING! So my advise to anybody in a bad situation, become as least threatening as possible, wait for your moment and shine. Make sure management will see it, make sure they will understand your impact on the bottom line. If you can do that you will be untouchable. All this goes for any company except the big 3 and EDS, and maybe a few other HUGE companies. My advise there is run as fast as you can from those jobs.
As we understand the universe better and better, I believe we will begin to see nature using/demonstrating "advanced" scientific principal as we begin to understand them.
This can be shown with bees
The compaines get to write it off, the reported losses that is, and the way corporate taxes work, it is a lot of mony that they get to keep.
By Dictionary.com
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveriesby accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.
With any type of research their is the possibility for a serendipitious event leading to limitless possiblities. Here are a few
So as you say pure research does have advantages. It may produce somthing completely unrelated to the research, or it may produce immediate results based largly on chance and largly on the observation abilities of the ones performing the expiremnts/research.
I have never laughed so hard at a post. I'm just glad I was not drinking anything at the time, otherwise I would be cleaning my keyboard right now.
And there was much rejoycing.
YEAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
Another possiblity is the industry is waiting to see the viability of 10+ layer fluorescent disks that hold 100GB+ of data. Constilation 3D developed the FMD drive which appears to be an incredible technology. You can read about them here and you can check out their stock here
From the article...
All of this takes place not in software but hardware. The chips are called Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The ones Thompson uses come from San Jose chip-maker Xilinx. The transistors of the chip appear as an array of "logic cells," which can be changed in value and connected to any other cell on the fly. By reprogramming a chip's memory, its logic cells can be tuned for any task at hand.
Is it me or does this sound like the construction of neurologic pathways in the brain?
If the raw material of the FPGA becomes abundant enough and the origional programming of the chip is sufficently flexable, could we be looking at possilbe computer that evolves at billions/trillions times faster than a biologic organisim.
If you look at it this way, saying that life took 4 billion years to eveolve to the sentient state that humans are, could we be looking at an AI system as intelligent/creative as we are in a few days/weeks/months? Now let this system develop for a few years, what are the possiblities then?
just a few thougts.
BTW, This seems similar to the technology in Terminator 2.
This also allows for farmers to destroy competitors. On dark and windy night you happen to drive by farmer Bill, your competitor, and take a handfull of seens and throw them to the wind. Well after a couple of years you report him to the company that holds the patents on the genes and you have seccessfully put a competitor out of business.
Exactally! Powertrip == a good feeling!
John,
You are close this time, but not quite hitting the mark, the question that begs asking is "Why do kids bully other kids?" This is the big question. In my experience almost every bully has had either a broken home environment, ie divorce, or signifigant emotional and or physical abuse.
So the question should be, "Why are kids harassing (abusing) other kids?" Because they need to feel good about themselves. How do children learn to feel good? Mainly from their primary care givers, in most cases their parents, and what they have learned? Abuse.
They have learned! The RIAA is moved by greed. Greed forces you to learn fast how to keep/make your money. They know that it is inevitable that music will be online but they want to delay it as much as possible. Why???? Because they will make more money in the process.
They are claiming that there is no way to guarantee, because they know that it will delay putting the music online, which, in their eyes, means more $$.
They know that online is the way of the future and there is no way out of it, they are just trying to delay it to get more $$.
IMHO, I believe that they would make more mony buy selling music online the same way internet access is sold. You have unlimited access for X $$ per month. I'd sign up in a second if it was $20 or under. But that is just my opinion.
Such tricks worked once, they'll try them again.
But now Joe consumer has a trick up his sleeve. He can make his own CDs, a.k.a. CDR. Perfect copies of the origional, not possible in the days of vinyl. So the old tricks will fail.