It also provides a map of population density in the world. Another article provides information on the surface area of the Earth.
Approximately 29.2% of the surface is dry land. 13.31% of this land is arable, with only 4.71% supporting permanent crops.
148,940,000 km is dry land. (1.940 x 10^14 mÂ)
Assuming a buried person takes up 1 square metre.
Assume that there have been 120 billion skeletons buried all over the place (125 minus 5 billion still living).
Then you have 1.20 x 10^11 / (1.940 x 10^14 mÂ)
which gives 1.20 / 1.940 x 10^-3
or 0.000618556
6.18556 x 10^-3
So, you have a 1/1616 chance of finding a skeleton. Your odds will be affected by the cultural traditions of the local population, the local geology (limestone will dissolve bone). The natives might think twice about burying tribe members on farm land.
Before, researchers didn't know how long it took for the AIDS virus (or any virus) to assemble itself from the different amino-acids required to make the genes, and the proteins required to make the outer casing. It could have been hours, minutes or milliseconds. Now, they know it takes several minutes.
A cure would involve kill cells that have the virus inside. Detecting and killing such cells is one step to finding a cure, but probably impossible. Finding drugs which inhibit the virus entering cells, reaching the DNA, or leaving the cells are all partial cures.
Development of antibodies which attach and kill cells with the virus particles partially formed on the surface of the cell is the next most likely achievement. To achieve this, they now know that they need something which can completely enclose the surface of a cell within 5-6 minutes.
Also, they now have a new technique to visualise the behavior of virus particles in a cell. They can watch to see how any potential treatments interact with the virus within the cell in real-time.
In 1963, the frequency band 2500-2686 MHz was reserved to educational institutions for over-the-air transmission of instructional TV programs. Transmission was point-to-point, for example, campus-to-campus or campus-to-hospital for continuing education needs. Hence the name: Instructional Television, Fixed Service (ITFS). The power authorized (up to 100 watts) allowed transmit/receive separations of up to 30-40 miles.
Played Space Quest 2 - I always thought the use of 256-color quantization for the 256 VGA color mode gave games a richer appearance - forcing the artists to work with color rather than just detail.
Very true - look at the artwork for the Atari 2600 console - they had these amazing hand-painted composite artworks with human characters everywhere., yet you would be just be a 64-bix pixel block in the game.
I've still got my Atari 800 5.25" 180K floppy disks and floppy disk drives - they still work despite being placed int storage for 15+ years. If you have kept the disks in a dry cool place away from magnetic fields, they should still work.
A few of the 3D animation software packages do that. The "cripplewared" version would come with some restrictions, but there would be someone who had figured out how to crack the license key.
But as an animator, it is necessary to list which tools you are familiar with, and which you used for your portfolio examples. So it would be obvious if they had used an unlicensed version.
I had one in a desktop workstation - at least it gave a warning that something was up, it kept making a grating/grinding noise.
I've lost a Travelstar laptop drive in a similar way - another family member helpfully moved the laptop into direct sunlight during a bright Summer day, and left the laptop lid down. The poor hard disk drive overheated and fried out (gave a whining noise until the laptop powered down).
The only people who could really make any fair comparisons would be search engine/internet archive maintainers/large departments who purchase and install large number of these systems every year.
Rechem in Scotland was extremely popular with their incinerator, which they were reputed to run at a lower temperature at night, which didn't completely destroy the dioxins. By using a laser/gas chromatography, the environmentalists were able to prove that the furnace was being underpowered.
Layoff thousands of useless unioned employee workers.
The way government works is that if any department has to make cutbacks, it's the front line workers who get fired - cutbacks in the education department? Get rid of some experienced teachers. Budget shortfall in the environment department? Reduce bin collection service to once per two weeks.
Above a certain management level, if any two groups are merged, one person must be promoted to a senior level, and the other person must be offered an equivalent position. If one department is split, someone has to be promoted to a more senior position on the payscale ladder.
In the most extreme example, a city department was forced to make all their frontline staff redundant - the remaining budget was spent on administrators salaries, who were "keeping things ticking over" until funds became available again.
Environmentalists managed to detect dioxins being generated by incinerators being undertemperatured through the use of laser chromatography. Couldn't the same work for the traces of explosives?
What wabout those washing powders which give that whiter-than-white look to clothes - they have chemicals which make clothes glow under UV light (a cool high-school experiment).
Have you tried second hand book stores or campus book sales? With the former, you can books at 10% of the retail price, while with the latter, you can get textbooks for less than 1 pound/dollar each. And they will have everything from architecture to biology, chemistry and zoology.
You give the software away for free, but you charge a free for a license key (eg. Microsoft) that unlocks various features of the software. For potential customers, you provide edit and load functionality. For students, you allow all the edit, load and save features, but any printed files have a watermark copyright. For professional users, you provide all features.
If we had the technology to colonise the Moon while making a profit at the same time, it would probably be cheaper just trying to develop the deserts in New Mexico and Nevada. At least in these areas, you don't have to worry about the vacuum of space.
I've heard stories about some of the rituals that the blue chip companies in the UK perform to "divine the best graduate for the job".
First they tried "graphology", trying to guess the personality of the person from their handwriting. By doing something like this behind someone's back, it almost seems that the employers have a distrust of their potential staff even before they have attended an interview. Why not just invite them to a workplace party to see what they are like?
The next game I heard about was when the directors would invite the graduates up to interview, sit them around a table and tell them that they are going to participate in a group discussion and the person who made the most contribution to the discussion would get the job. Possibly amusing for directors, but all the graduates just ends up shouting at each other.
And in the end they just want bright graduates to train up and supervise outsourced staff from India.
The files could have been uploaded through a video terminal emulator - something like 'crosstalk' or 'kermit'. Back in the early 1980's that was considered state of the art in PC communications.
Running two such sessions (if possible) would probably overload the CPU with interrupts.
There is a small suburb in Aberdeenshire called "Cults". So if you were to make a roadsign with this word and an arrow on it, you would have a alibi that it was a direction sign and not a political comment.
Having worked in Canada and the USA, I'd say the comments below are accurate - in some places, the sidewalks would just disappear and be replaced by a corporate lawn.
In Canada, the buttons for the sidewalk crossings would be placed in the middle of the islands between the right/left turn lanes and the straight ahead lanes. It seemed obvious they wished to discourage pedestrians from the streets.
In both cases, the main surface roads would be at least three lanes wide and be in heavy use.
Where there is public transport, the trains/metro provide a good service between cities, but the bus service from one end of the city to the metro station may only run at peak hours and not at all during weekends. Other times during the week may only be an hourly service.
Walking a single mile will take 15/20 minutes. It would take 45 minutes/hour walking just to get the three miles to the city centre, and that's just in good weather.
Not forgetting buildings. Cities are known to increase temperate by two degrees centigrade for every mile radius of urban development.
National Geographic had a program which described how the latest skyscrapers in New York were being designed to save on energy by using rainwater.
Although, they were saying that every skyscraper increased the surface area of the city due to the vertical walls, but failed to mention the shadow created by the building.
Just listen for EMF of a recording video camera, and you'll know there's some insurgents nearby. My digital camera generated enough EMF to jam the BBC World news long wave station within our house - drove my parents nuts.
During the 1980's and 1990's, Maggie Thatcher had a policy of not reporting speeches made by terrorist leaders. The idea was to "cut off their oxygen supply of publicity". Funny how trying to do that now, would just force people to visit alternative news channels, broadcasters or websites.
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The future according to Sun or IBM - faster CPU's using more cores per processor.
The future according to Nvidia - faster GPU's using more stream processors.
Wikipedia has an estimate of the total number of people that has ever lived at 45 billion to 125 billion people.
It also provides a map of population density in the world. Another article provides information on the surface area of the Earth.
Approximately 29.2% of the surface is dry land. 13.31% of this land is arable, with only 4.71% supporting permanent crops.
148,940,000 km is dry land. (1.940 x 10^14 mÂ)
Assuming a buried person takes up 1 square metre.
Assume that there have been 120 billion skeletons buried all over the place (125 minus 5 billion still living).
Then you have 1.20 x 10^11 / (1.940 x 10^14 mÂ)
which gives 1.20 / 1.940 x 10^-3
or 0.000618556
6.18556 x 10^-3
So, you have a 1/1616 chance of finding a skeleton. Your odds will be affected by the cultural traditions of the local population, the local geology (limestone will dissolve bone). The natives might think twice about burying tribe members on farm land.
Before, researchers didn't know how long it took for the AIDS virus (or any virus) to assemble itself from the different amino-acids required to make the genes, and the proteins required to make the outer casing. It could have been hours, minutes or milliseconds. Now, they know it takes several minutes.
A cure would involve kill cells that have the virus inside. Detecting and killing such cells is one step to finding a cure, but probably impossible. Finding drugs which inhibit the virus entering cells, reaching the DNA, or leaving the cells are all partial cures.
Development of antibodies which attach and kill cells with the virus particles partially formed on the surface of the cell is the next most likely achievement. To achieve this, they now know that they need something which can completely enclose the surface of a cell within 5-6 minutes.
Also, they now have a new technique to visualise the behavior of virus particles in a cell. They can watch to see how any potential treatments interact with the virus within the cell in real-time.
Here's a link to the purpose of the education spectrum
In 1963, the frequency band 2500-2686 MHz was reserved to educational institutions for over-the-air transmission of instructional TV programs. Transmission was point-to-point, for example, campus-to-campus or campus-to-hospital for continuing education needs. Hence the name: Instructional Television, Fixed Service (ITFS). The power authorized (up to 100 watts) allowed transmit/receive separations of up to 30-40 miles.
Played Space Quest 2 - I always thought the use of 256-color quantization for the 256 VGA color mode gave games a richer appearance - forcing the artists to work with color rather than just detail.
Very true - look at the artwork for the Atari 2600 console - they had these amazing hand-painted composite artworks with human characters everywhere., yet you would be just be a 64-bix pixel block in the game.
I've still got my Atari 800 5.25" 180K floppy disks and floppy disk drives - they still work despite being placed int storage for 15+ years. If you have kept the disks in a dry cool place away from magnetic fields, they should still work.
A few of the 3D animation software packages do that. The "cripplewared" version would come with some restrictions, but there would be someone who had figured out how to crack the license key.
But as an animator, it is necessary to list which tools you are familiar with, and which you used for your portfolio examples. So it would be obvious if they had used an unlicensed version.
I had one in a desktop workstation - at least it gave a warning that something was up, it kept making a grating/grinding noise.
I've lost a Travelstar laptop drive in a similar way - another family member helpfully moved the laptop into direct sunlight during a bright Summer day, and left the laptop lid down. The poor hard disk drive overheated and fried out (gave a whining noise until the laptop powered down).
The only people who could really make any fair comparisons would be search engine/internet archive maintainers/large departments who purchase and install large number of these systems every year.
Detection of dioxins by laser:
Real-Time Monitoring of Dioxins and Other Ambient Air Trace Organics
Dioxins in ambient air, bonfire night 1994
Rechem in Scotland was extremely popular with their incinerator, which they were reputed to run at a lower temperature at night, which didn't completely destroy the dioxins. By using a laser/gas chromatography, the environmentalists were able to prove that the furnace was being underpowered.
Layoff thousands of useless unioned employee workers.
The way government works is that if any department has to make cutbacks, it's the front line workers who get fired - cutbacks in the education department? Get rid of some experienced teachers.
Budget shortfall in the environment department? Reduce bin collection service to once per two weeks.
Above a certain management level, if any two groups are merged, one person must be promoted to a senior level, and the other person must be offered an equivalent position. If one department is split, someone has to be promoted to a more senior position on the payscale ladder.
In the most extreme example, a city department was forced to make all their frontline staff redundant - the remaining budget was spent on administrators salaries, who were "keeping things ticking over" until funds became available again.
Environmentalists managed to detect dioxins being generated by incinerators being undertemperatured through the use of laser chromatography. Couldn't the same work for the traces of explosives?
What wabout those washing powders which give that whiter-than-white look to clothes - they have chemicals which make clothes glow under UV light (a cool high-school experiment).
Have you tried second hand book stores or campus book sales? With the former, you can books at 10% of the retail price, while with the latter, you can get textbooks for less than 1 pound/dollar each. And they will have everything from architecture to biology, chemistry and zoology.
You give the software away for free, but you charge a free for a license key (eg. Microsoft) that unlocks various features of the software. For potential customers, you provide edit and load functionality. For students, you allow all the edit, load and save features, but any printed files have a watermark copyright. For professional users, you provide all features.
If we had the technology to colonise the Moon while making a profit at the same time, it would probably be cheaper just trying to develop the deserts in New Mexico and Nevada. At least in these areas, you don't have to worry about the vacuum of space.
I've heard stories about some of the rituals that the blue chip companies in the UK perform to "divine the best graduate for the job".
First they tried "graphology", trying to guess the personality of the person from their handwriting. By doing something like this behind someone's back, it almost seems that the employers have a distrust of their potential staff even before they have attended an interview. Why not just invite them to a workplace party to see what they are like?
The next game I heard about was when the directors would invite the graduates up to interview, sit them around a table and tell them that they are going to participate in a group discussion and the person who made the most contribution to the discussion would get the job. Possibly amusing for directors, but all the graduates just ends up shouting at each other.
And in the end they just want bright graduates to train up and supervise outsourced staff from India.
The files could have been uploaded through a video terminal emulator - something like 'crosstalk' or 'kermit'. Back in the early 1980's that was considered state of the art in PC communications.
Running two such sessions (if possible) would probably overload the CPU with interrupts.
"... We apologise for the inconvenience, but a metaphysical dichotomy has forced this unit to overload and shut down ..."
There is a small suburb in Aberdeenshire called "Cults". So if you were to make a roadsign with this word and an arrow on it, you would have a alibi that it was a direction sign and not a political comment.
You'd get a mod point for funny if I had mod points.
Having worked in Canada and the USA, I'd say the comments below are accurate - in some places, the sidewalks would just disappear and be replaced by a corporate lawn.
In Canada, the buttons for the sidewalk crossings would be placed in the middle of the islands between the right/left turn lanes and the straight ahead lanes. It seemed obvious they wished to discourage pedestrians from the streets.
In both cases, the main surface roads would be at least three lanes wide and be in heavy use.
Where there is public transport, the trains/metro provide a good service between cities, but the bus service from one end of the city to the metro station may only run at peak hours and not at all during weekends. Other times during the week may only be an hourly service.
Walking a single mile will take 15/20 minutes. It would take 45 minutes/hour walking just to get the three miles to the city centre, and that's just in good weather.
Not forgetting buildings. Cities are known to increase temperate by two degrees centigrade for every mile radius of urban development.
National Geographic had a program which described how the latest skyscrapers in New York were being designed to save on energy by using rainwater.
Although, they were saying that every skyscraper increased the surface area of the city due to the vertical walls, but failed to mention the shadow created by the building.
Just listen for EMF of a recording video camera, and you'll know there's some insurgents nearby. My digital camera generated enough EMF to jam the BBC World news long wave station within our house - drove my parents nuts.
During the 1980's and 1990's, Maggie Thatcher had a policy of not reporting speeches made by terrorist leaders. The idea was to "cut off their oxygen supply of publicity". Funny how trying to do that now, would just force people to visit alternative news channels, broadcasters or websites.