In the past, dodgy computer shops would buy up Intel/AMD chips, remove the sticky labels indicating the clockspeed, put on new labels claiming a higher clockspeed, and overclock the CPU's. Even if the CPU's did end up melting into the motherboard.
Intel/AMD stopped this by adding serial numbers and processor descriptions into the CPU die itself.
I doubt they could even do that - it's hard enough to some commercial databases to handle all the variations in addresses let alone medical ones:
Old tenement blocks with the same address, but different flat numbers/letter eg. 25C Somewhere Street, 3F4, EA4 5GH. There are at three doors side-by-side each with the number 25, but differentiated by adding A,B or C. Each door leads to at least three floors with four doors on each communal hallway. There might even be four or more residents sharing each flat as they have large Victorian bedrooms.
Other flats may just have a single number, but share one mailbox between twelve residents.
Rural locations have a simple address like "The Monastery, Upper Solitude, Churchshire.
Then there would be name fields for patients of all nationalities. Another complication is that many patients might share the same name, eg. Smith, Jones, so having your patient records deleted because some other person with your name happened to die, isn't going to help.
Even with modern digital records, new fields and types of data are going to be entered all the type as research continues: MRI scan, ECG recordings, ultrasound scans, X-ray photographs
As the UK has over 100+ health boards, each health board will have their own data formats and forms constantly being changed as their own research is carried out.
There are legal requirements over guaranteeing the confidentiality of digital patient records; archiving, access controls, logging accesses.
The only way anyone could successfully take on this project, would be to take control of the inhouse IT support departments, and merge them together in small groups, until they are all going together in the same direction.
They would have to agree on a common data format for every basic field (name, address, SSN/NI number, nationality) and then modify their systems as they go along.
General history of the universe is that each galaxy starts out as super-massive red giants which rapidly burn up their fuel and explode, forming new but smaller stars. Eventually the remains reform into stars and planets.
I guess the iron from the fusion process and the heavier elements from the supernova process would end up forming the new stars and planets.
I was going to ask which is the most hostile environment for hardware - a foxhole in a battlefield or an elementary school. At least a soldier will try and protect his equipment. Kindergartenkind will try and use every combination of action and objects at hand.
Ah, "submarine patents". Reassure everyone that the technology you offer and share is free, then when the patent is granted, announce that there is now a licence fee.
The hope is that after four years, everyone will have embedded your technology into their products, and can't go back.
It's not that dangerous - the system operates just like a regular refrigerator. The cooling system is filled with helium gas at room-temperature. A compressor is used to compress the gas to high pressure - this causes heat to be emitted. As the pressure decreases, the helium liquefies before reaching the processor where it then heats up again and becomes gas again and the cycle is repeated.
It's not like some dude is standing on a wheeled office chair above the PC, with a flask of liquid helium in one hand, a funnel and some rubber tubing in the other trying to keep the end of the tube aligned with top of the CPU.
Every now and again, I go down to my university bookstore and browse through the titles in the different sections (Architecture, Biology, Computer-Science,... Mathematics, Physcs, Zoology).
Architecture advances as new materials are created, new buildings are constructed and old ones are demolished. Biology and Zoology advances as new species are found and the knowledge of genetics, proteonomics, embryology, immunology advances. Computer-Science advances with new algorithms, software and hardware.
But those Mathematics and Physicists keep using the same natural laws and equations that have been in the use for the past 200 years!
Is it even possible for things to be "more infinite"?
A Klein bottle?
There is a practical intention with the design of donut shaped offices. It encourages employees to meet each other and interact while walking towards places like the entrance or eating areas. Helps with the synergetic process of groupthink.
The way they expect fusion reactors to work is that the high-energy neutrons emitted from the fusion reaction (deuterium + tritium -> helium + neutrons) are used to heat the water, which drive turbines.
Mainly because it's believe they could just pull out the old fission reactor core and replace it with a brand new fusion reactor, thus lowering installation costs.
Always wondered whether they couldn't build a scaled down version first (like CD lasers vs anti-missile lasers).
As one agency put it to me in 2002, "after the layoffs at a major research lab, there are thousands of graduates sending thousand of CVs to thousands of companies".
Depends on the way you want someone to solve a problem. There are at least three ways:
1. Derived from first principles and theory - researching, designing and implementing algorithms from reading research papers, textbooks and course notes. Some employers don't like this because they fear a lawsuit from infringing someone else's patent.
2. Asking publicly for available algorithms and source code snippets - Some companies don't like this because they don't want others to know what they are working on.
3. Asking around internally for what code there is available and using textbooks - The preferred safe solution.
Academics prefer to keep their students in "safe" environments where they don't have to worry about hardware configurations, device drivers and processor quirks.
I've seen that on those outsourcing/freelancer project websites. These days, one contractor at a client site will just subcontract all the other tasks onto one of those websites. You can never tell who actually did the work.
There used to be a trade term for startup companies bidding to for a contract only to subcontract the work out - "dutch windmills". Each company would take enough work to keep a group of engineers going at full speed and then pass the work downstream for someone to complete. It would continue all the way down the line. Eventually they realize it is better to keep everyone inhouse and they just have one big company.
The original book had white cover with blue text. The second edition actually had color text inside.
Was worthwhile learning back then in the era of ADT's (Abstract Data Types) or inside-out classes, and X-windows/Motif or Windows 3.1
Superceded by C++ classes and MFC in the 1990's, which were in turn superceded with STL, then design patterns. Which were in turn superceded with Java and C#
You just learn a programming language and GUI system for it to be replaced five years later.
There were major differences between each vision of the future.
1984 - The whole world is going to pieces with three major superpowers always forming truces, alliances and then going to war with each other. Information (or propoganda) has become so common that they are desperately trying to control it through NewsSpeak, but the system feeds on and ends up contradicts itself, so the population stops paying attention and the powers in charge get paranoid. Based on what remained of the bombed-out city suburbs in the UK and Europe.
Brave New World - There are no more wars, but take the central planning strategy of Nationalist countries to the extreme, and use genetic manipulation to predetermine the intelligence of new citizens. They can then assign them to whatever roles suitable. Alphas, Betas are the brightest, Deltas and Epsilons employed for tasks like operating elevators and delivering telegrams. As a result, flow of information is strictly controlled and only available for those who need it. Everyone is kept happy through free drugs, movies and sex. Based on the rapid advances in medical technology in the 1930's as well as the growing international political parties.
V for Vendetta - Based on life in London under New Labour.
1920's and 1930's: everyone thought the world was getting a better place with medical research. 1930's - 1940's - governments feared technology like cameras and microfilm were being used by spies. 1950's - 1960's - end of rationing meant everyone thought the world was getting better. 1970's - 1980's - everyone thought the world was getting a worse place as jobs were being lost to the Far East, while at the same time, silicon chips were finding markets. We did see the dangers of database technology and passed laws like the Data Protection Act. 1990's - 2010's - we start seeing technology being used to allow criminal rings to operate and organize, so governments want to log all communications.
Singapore is basically a city state. They are an island on the end of the Malaysian peninsula. Due to the high costs of living, a lot of the population commutes in and out from Malaysia. Imagine somewhere like Manhattan existing as it's own internationally recognized country.
From experience after World War II, the Singaporeans know that things can do downhill fast if they don't keep a tight grip on living standards - last time they let them slip, the place became a den for drugs and crime. They only recovered by allowing the army to take over law and order. As a result, they have all these rules, regulations and punishments.
In 1969, Joan Miller of Bell Labs experimented with the first known instance of a framebuffer. The device displayed an image with a color depth of three bits.
In 1972, Richard Shoup developed the SuperPaint system at Xerox PARC. This system had 311,040 bytes of memory and was capable of storing 640 by 480 pixels of data with 8 bits of color depth. The memory was scattered across 16 circuit boards,
In 1974 Evans & Sutherland released the first commercial framebuffer, costing about $15,000.
There was an Edinburgh company designing racing yachts. They were looking for someone with academic or commercial parallel processing experience in Fortran-99.
Slashdot Mirror
The advert of herding cats comes to mind ....
One of the consultancies already gave up.
Remember seeing that bios - the mouse was neeed to be able to adjust scrollbars and click options.
In the past, dodgy computer shops would buy up Intel/AMD chips, remove the sticky labels indicating the clockspeed, put on new labels claiming a higher clockspeed, and overclock the CPU's. Even if the CPU's did end up melting into the motherboard.
Intel/AMD stopped this by adding serial numbers and processor descriptions into the CPU die itself.
I doubt they could even do that - it's hard enough to some commercial databases to handle all the variations in addresses let alone medical ones:
Old tenement blocks with the same address, but different flat numbers/letter eg. 25C Somewhere Street, 3F4, EA4 5GH. There are at three doors side-by-side each with the number 25, but differentiated by adding A,B or C. Each door leads to at least three floors with four doors on each communal hallway.
There might even be four or more residents sharing each flat as they have large Victorian bedrooms.
Other flats may just have a single number, but share one mailbox between twelve residents.
Rural locations have a simple address like "The Monastery, Upper Solitude, Churchshire.
Then there would be name fields for patients of all nationalities. Another complication is that many patients might share the same name, eg. Smith, Jones, so having your patient records deleted because some other person with your name happened to die, isn't going to help.
Even with modern digital records, new fields and types of data are going to be entered all the type as research continues: MRI scan, ECG recordings, ultrasound scans, X-ray photographs
As the UK has over 100+ health boards, each health board will have their own data formats and forms constantly being changed as their own research is carried out.
There are legal requirements over guaranteeing the confidentiality of digital patient records; archiving, access controls, logging accesses.
The only way anyone could successfully take on this project, would be to take control of the inhouse IT support departments, and merge them together in small groups, until they are all going together in the same direction.
They would have to agree on a common data format for every basic field (name, address, SSN/NI number, nationality) and then modify their systems as they go along.
General history of the universe is that each galaxy starts out as super-massive red giants which rapidly burn up their fuel and explode, forming new but smaller stars. Eventually the remains reform into stars and planets.
I guess the iron from the fusion process and the heavier elements from the supernova process would end up forming the new stars and planets.
I was going to ask which is the most hostile environment for hardware - a foxhole in a battlefield or an elementary school. At least a soldier will try and protect his equipment. Kindergartenkind will try and use every combination of action and objects at hand.
I guess they must be nuclear blast proof, along with the manually operated kinetic energy transfer devices (hammers).
Ah, "submarine patents". Reassure everyone that the technology you offer and share is free, then when the patent is granted, announce that there is now a licence fee.
The hope is that after four years, everyone will have embedded your technology into their products, and can't go back.
This battle has ranged on since 2002. It relates to memory controllers, decode logic and high-speed memory chips for motherboards and GPU's.
Wikipedia entry on RAMBUS is the best explanation.
It's not that dangerous - the system operates just like a regular refrigerator. The cooling system is filled with helium gas at room-temperature. A compressor is used to compress the gas to high pressure - this causes heat to be emitted. As the pressure decreases, the helium liquefies before reaching the processor where it then heats up again and becomes gas again and the cycle is repeated.
It's not like some dude is standing on a wheeled office chair above the PC, with a flask of liquid helium in one hand, a funnel and some rubber tubing in the other trying to keep the end of the tube aligned with top of the CPU.
The Odyssey series (The Minds Eye) is a collection of early videos.
Imaginaria is the best set of titles that I could find (Adventures of Andre' and Wally B).
Every now and again, I go down to my university bookstore and browse through the titles in the different sections (Architecture, Biology, Computer-Science, ... Mathematics, Physcs, Zoology).
Architecture advances as new materials are created, new buildings are constructed and old ones are demolished. Biology and Zoology advances as new species are found and the knowledge of genetics, proteonomics, embryology, immunology advances. Computer-Science advances with new algorithms, software and hardware.
But those Mathematics and Physicists keep using the same natural laws and equations that have been in the use for the past 200 years!
Is it even possible for things to be "more infinite"?
A Klein bottle?
There is a practical intention with the design of donut shaped offices. It encourages employees to meet each other and interact while walking towards places like the entrance or eating areas. Helps with the synergetic process of groupthink.
The way they expect fusion reactors to work is that the high-energy neutrons emitted from the fusion reaction (deuterium + tritium -> helium + neutrons) are used to heat the water, which drive turbines.
Mainly because it's believe they could just pull out the old fission reactor core and replace it with a brand new fusion reactor, thus lowering installation costs.
Always wondered whether they couldn't build a scaled down version first (like CD lasers vs anti-missile lasers).
Edinburgh university has a Department of Informatics
The number of new names there are for data processing is really mind-boggling now. More a regular expression script
than any one term:
[bio][genomics|[proteo][genetics|statistics|nomics]]
As one agency put it to me in 2002, "after the layoffs at a major research lab, there are thousands of graduates sending thousand of CVs to thousands of companies".
Nothing like finding a bit of code with some seriously bad mojo.
Sounds like something trying to gain access to a server spinlock.
There's actually fitness equipment supplier by the name "Gomango" who sells lifting bars with spin locks...
Depends on the way you want someone to solve a problem. There are at least three ways:
1. Derived from first principles and theory - researching, designing and implementing algorithms from reading research papers, textbooks and course notes. Some employers don't like this because they fear a lawsuit from infringing someone else's patent.
2. Asking publicly for available algorithms and source code snippets - Some companies don't like this because they don't want others to know what they are working on.
3. Asking around internally for what code there is available and using textbooks - The preferred safe solution.
Academics prefer to keep their students in "safe" environments where they don't have to worry about hardware configurations, device drivers and processor quirks.
I've seen that on those outsourcing/freelancer project websites. These days, one contractor at a client site will just subcontract all the other tasks onto one of those websites. You can never tell who actually did the work.
There used to be a trade term for startup companies bidding to for a contract only to subcontract the work out - "dutch windmills". Each company would take enough work to keep a group of engineers going at full speed and then pass the work downstream for someone to complete. It would continue all the way down the line. Eventually they realize it is better to keep everyone inhouse and they just have one big company.
New Labour wasn't much different from Thatcher when she got in during the 1980's.
The original book had white cover with blue text. The second edition actually had color text inside.
Was worthwhile learning back then in the era of ADT's (Abstract Data Types) or inside-out classes, and X-windows/Motif or Windows 3.1
Superceded by C++ classes and MFC in the 1990's, which were in turn superceded with STL, then design patterns. Which were in turn superceded with Java and C#
You just learn a programming language and GUI system for it to be replaced five years later.
There were major differences between each vision of the future.
1984 - The whole world is going to pieces with three major superpowers always forming truces, alliances and then going to war with each other. Information (or propoganda) has become so common that they are desperately trying to control it through NewsSpeak, but the system feeds on and ends up contradicts itself, so the population stops paying attention and the powers in charge get paranoid. Based on what remained of the bombed-out city suburbs in the UK and Europe.
Brave New World - There are no more wars, but take the central planning strategy of Nationalist countries to the extreme, and use genetic manipulation to predetermine the intelligence of new citizens. They can then assign them to whatever roles suitable. Alphas, Betas are the brightest, Deltas and Epsilons employed for tasks like operating elevators and delivering telegrams. As a result, flow of information is strictly controlled and only available for those who need it. Everyone is kept happy through free drugs, movies and sex. Based on the rapid advances in medical technology in the 1930's as well as the growing international political parties.
V for Vendetta - Based on life in London under New Labour.
1920's and 1930's: everyone thought the world was getting a better place with medical research.
1930's - 1940's - governments feared technology like cameras and microfilm were being used by spies.
1950's - 1960's - end of rationing meant everyone thought the world was getting better.
1970's - 1980's - everyone thought the world was getting a worse place as jobs were being lost to the Far East, while at the same time, silicon chips were finding markets. We did see the dangers of database technology and passed laws like the Data Protection Act.
1990's - 2010's - we start seeing technology being used to allow criminal rings to operate and organize, so governments want to log all communications.
Singapore is basically a city state. They are an island on the end of the Malaysian peninsula. Due to the high costs of living, a lot of the population commutes in and out from Malaysia. Imagine somewhere like Manhattan existing as it's own internationally recognized country.
From experience after World War II, the Singaporeans know that things can do downhill fast if they don't keep a tight grip on living standards - last time they let them slip, the place became a den for drugs and crime. They only recovered by allowing the army to take over law and order. As a result, they have all these rules, regulations and punishments.
History of Framebuffers
In 1969, Joan Miller of Bell Labs experimented with the first known instance of a framebuffer. The device displayed an image with a color depth of three bits.
In 1972, Richard Shoup developed the SuperPaint system at Xerox PARC. This system had 311,040 bytes of memory and was capable of storing 640 by 480 pixels of data with 8 bits of color depth. The memory was scattered across 16 circuit boards,
In 1974 Evans & Sutherland released the first commercial framebuffer, costing about $15,000.
There was an Edinburgh company designing racing yachts. They were looking for someone with academic or commercial parallel processing experience in Fortran-99.